Syria: Barack Obama is Seeking Support from John McCain
While the U.S. Congress is expected to decide on military action in Syria, Barack Obama is trying to get the support of his former rival in the 2008 presidential elections , the influential Republican Senator John McCain.
When U.S. President Barack Obama is engaged in an intense lobbying campaign to convince Congress to support a limited military action against Syria, an elected Republican influence is at the center of attention .
This man is none other than Senator John McCain defeated rival Barack Obama in the presidential election of 2008. He will be received at the White House, Monday, September 2 , indicating that it will play a very important role. Especially since Sunday, against all odds, he said he was not sure to vote in favor of the plan of the Obama administration , the unambitious judging .
"Cosmetic Strike "
"Apparently, the president wants a kind of cosmetic strikes , throw a few missiles and say this is it, we responded ," he told the Republican elected Friday night on NBC . He continued: " This is the same president who, two years ago , said that Assad should leave power , it is also the President who said that the use of chemical weapons was a line red. Maybe the line was drawn in invisible ink ? " . A chemical weapons attack on August 21 , occurred in the Damascus area , is charged by the Washington regime of Bashar al- Assad.
Barely a month after the uprising rebel, in March 2011 , McCain had called on the antenna FRANCE 24 , the Syrian president " brutal killer ." If at the time he considered " very risky " to intervene militarily against Damascus, he quickly changed his mind .
The Arizona senator , very concerned with the Syrian crisis has not stopped for months to call Washington to engage against Damascus , and act by delivering arms to the rebels and by creating an area of fly . In May, while attending an economic forum in Jordan, he went to Turkey , where he could join the Syrian territory and to meet with the commander of the Free Syrian Army Selim Idriss .
A " critical " support for Obama
"The world should be ashamed of his handling of the crisis in Syria , but I think that especially the United States should be ashamed because we have not taken the lead in this matter , nor does the necessary to prevent Assad stay in power, " he had told FRANCE 24 in May. He continued: " The Obama administration has deeply disappointed me because she remained idly at the massacre of thousands of people and the exodus of millions of refugees , leaving Iran and the Russians continue to assist Bashar al- Assad. "
Born in 1936 and elected to Congress discontinuously since 1983, he is considered one of the veterans of American politics . The experience in the army of the hero of the Vietnam War , where he was imprisoned for five years, and his participation in numerous parliamentary committees on defense and foreign policy make him a highly respected player in these fields . In 2011 , John McCain was one of the strongest proponents in Congress of military operations in Libya against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.
U.S. media believe that Obama would have a good chance of getting the green light from Congress, where the debates begin September 9 , if he could join the heavyweights Republicans or Democrats. And the " Washington Post " said that the support of the Arizona senator , described as " a key ally " of the White House, " will be crucial to obtain the approval of the Senate ."
When U.S. President Barack Obama is engaged in an intense lobbying campaign to convince Congress to support a limited military action against Syria, an elected Republican influence is at the center of attention .
This man is none other than Senator John McCain defeated rival Barack Obama in the presidential election of 2008. He will be received at the White House, Monday, September 2 , indicating that it will play a very important role. Especially since Sunday, against all odds, he said he was not sure to vote in favor of the plan of the Obama administration , the unambitious judging .
"Cosmetic Strike "
"Apparently, the president wants a kind of cosmetic strikes , throw a few missiles and say this is it, we responded ," he told the Republican elected Friday night on NBC . He continued: " This is the same president who, two years ago , said that Assad should leave power , it is also the President who said that the use of chemical weapons was a line red. Maybe the line was drawn in invisible ink ? " . A chemical weapons attack on August 21 , occurred in the Damascus area , is charged by the Washington regime of Bashar al- Assad.
Barely a month after the uprising rebel, in March 2011 , McCain had called on the antenna FRANCE 24 , the Syrian president " brutal killer ." If at the time he considered " very risky " to intervene militarily against Damascus, he quickly changed his mind .
The Arizona senator , very concerned with the Syrian crisis has not stopped for months to call Washington to engage against Damascus , and act by delivering arms to the rebels and by creating an area of fly . In May, while attending an economic forum in Jordan, he went to Turkey , where he could join the Syrian territory and to meet with the commander of the Free Syrian Army Selim Idriss .
A " critical " support for Obama
"The world should be ashamed of his handling of the crisis in Syria , but I think that especially the United States should be ashamed because we have not taken the lead in this matter , nor does the necessary to prevent Assad stay in power, " he had told FRANCE 24 in May. He continued: " The Obama administration has deeply disappointed me because she remained idly at the massacre of thousands of people and the exodus of millions of refugees , leaving Iran and the Russians continue to assist Bashar al- Assad. "
Born in 1936 and elected to Congress discontinuously since 1983, he is considered one of the veterans of American politics . The experience in the army of the hero of the Vietnam War , where he was imprisoned for five years, and his participation in numerous parliamentary committees on defense and foreign policy make him a highly respected player in these fields . In 2011 , John McCain was one of the strongest proponents in Congress of military operations in Libya against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi.
U.S. media believe that Obama would have a good chance of getting the green light from Congress, where the debates begin September 9 , if he could join the heavyweights Republicans or Democrats. And the " Washington Post " said that the support of the Arizona senator , described as " a key ally " of the White House, " will be crucial to obtain the approval of the Senate ."
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