http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110422/ap_on_re_mi_ea/mccain_libya
It is always surprising to this writer that Senator McCain, who personally suffered the cruelty and horror of war, should be a war hawk. It seems that at every turn the US Senator is cheering in favor of war, with its guns, bombs and destruction. It is disheartening to need to repeat so many times, but please remember that the government of Libya is the legal government recognized by the UN, most NATO counties and all international companies doing business with Libya. I don’t know how the Senator entered the sovereign State of Libya? It seems that a no fly zone does not apply to US Senators who are against the legal government. They can fly in without interference from NATO. Now, let’s reverse the scene. Imagine that there was a rebellion of the Union workers party in the USA. Imagine that a Libyan supporter of the rebellion entered the country on a private plane, landed at the rebel hideout and then held a clandestine press conference calling for the overthrow of the US government. What would happen? I believe the US government, would arrest the Libyan for advocating the violent overthrow of the USA. So…okay, the objection my readers make is that the USA is not a dictatorship. But according to the outlined scenario, the rebels in the USA would say that it was a dictatorship and should be overthrown. Now, back to today and reality, Mc Cain should have been arrested by the Libyan Government as a provocateur who advocated the overthrown of the internationally recognized government of Libya. And why wasn’t he? Because he entered the country illegally? Or because he was surrounded by USA secret service agents to protect him? Or because he wasn’t there more than a few hours, in which time he came to a complete, in-depth understanding of all the facts, and decided that the army, navy, and other armed personnel of Libya were bad and needed to be killed by USA drones, bombs, artillery and cruise missiles? I guess the military families of the Libyan government have no feelings, or rights? Let’s just kill them because American Senator John McCain says so! It really is surprising how much Senator McCain is in favor of wanton war. By the way, isn’t there a budget battle raging in the Senate? Isn’t there a need for Republican Senators to be out on the tour promoting the Ryan proposals? Isn’t there a great need for more jobs support efforts from the Senate? Maybe a nice little war in Libya that is costing us millions a day is what Senator McCain feels will fuel a recovery in the US armaments industry? Strange friends, government and armament makers!
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