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Title: Vladimir Putin calls John McCain 'nuts' in outspoken attack
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Telegraph
URL Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor ... -nuts-in-outspoken-attack.html
Published: Dec 15, 2011
Author: Alex Spillius
Post Date: 2011-12-15 11:41:22 by A K A Stone
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Views: 1528
Comments: 8
Vladimir Putin has launched an extraordinary attack on US Senator John McCain in which he also implicated Washington in the killing of Libyan dictator Col Muammar Gaddafi. The Russian prime minister called the former presidential candidate “nuts” in response to Twitter comment about Russia’s parliamentary elections that drew allegations of fraud and triggered large protests. Mr McCain’s tweet read: "Dear Vlad, The Arab Spring is coming to a neighbourhood near you." Mr Putin turned stony faced when asked about the tweet on his annual televised phone-in. "Mr McCain fought in Vietnam. I think that he has enough blood of peaceful citizens on his hands. It must be impossible for him to live without these disgusting scenes anymore. "Mr McCain was captured and they kept him not just in prison, but in a pit for several years," he said. "Anyone [in his place] would go nuts." Referring to Col Gaddafi’s capture and killing, he said: "Who did this? Drones, including American ones. They attacked his column. Then using the radio - through the special forces, who should not have been there - they brought in the so-called opposition and fighters, and killed him without court or investigation." The Pentagon immediately dismissed the charge as "ludicrous". "The assertion that US special operations forces were involved in the killing of Colonel Gaddafi is ludicrous," spokesman Capt John Kirby told AFP as of US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta visited Baghdad to end formally the US military mission. "We did not have American boots on the ground in the Libya operation. All our support was done through the air and on the seas." Russia initially allowed Nato’s air campaign in Libya to go ahead by abstaining in a UN Security Council vote. But it then vehemently criticised a campaign that Mr Putin at one stage compared to a Western "crusade". The former KGB agent is widely expected to return to the presidency after a four-year stint as prime minister despite a recent dip in public approval and the street protests - the first of his rule - over the outcome of this month's legislative elections. Mr Putin last week blamed Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, of sparking the rallies by questioning the vote's legitimacy. But his response was even more hostile when asked about Mr McCain's comments. He continued: "This was not addressed in my direction. This was said about Russia. Some people want to move Russia aside somewhere in a corner, so it does not intervene - so that it does not intervene in the ruling of the world.” "They still fear our nuclear capabilities," he said in reference to the West. "That is why we are such an irritant. We have our own opinion and are conducting our own independent foreign policy… And it clearly bothers someone." His response suggested that his next term in the Kremlin – a victory in March is still regarded as a near-certainty - will see a return to the antagonistic rhetoric that marked his first two.
Poster Comment: I can hardly wait til McCain croaks of old age. He is an asshole. Maybe worse then Obama.
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#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
I don't much like him either, but people are a mix of good and bad and he served his country and suffered as a POW when he was offered to be let go early because the other prisoners were not to be freed as well, so I don't begrudge him his existence. Whenever the higher powers in the Universe plan for him to depart is fine with me. I get angry at many people; but even the worst of them I don't begrudge them their corporeal existence. Unless they are trying to harm mine. Then they might regret it should I poison them with lead. I will be nice -- even help -- people I don't like. For example, when I was a clerk at 7 Eleven when I was in college we had a horrible transient who was the worst in terms of dirty, bothering people and peeing and crapping everywhere. He had an aunt in Arizona he could go to which I verified getting her phone number from him. I bought him a Greyhound ticket because the opportunity arose a fellow White Bird Clinic volunteer was Greyhounding down there and could make sure he stayed on track and sober on the bus. (My friend is a big big guy. ;-) A year later while he was making amends through a twelve step program keeping him sober he paid me back sending a little money at a time. He sent a picture of him with his family down there and I'll say he looked like a totally different character then the one who had worn his socks so long they had disintegrated into his foot's skin and had been a horror story to get cleaned and sweet smelling enough to be bus ready. Sometimes people surprise you. And even though McCain is an insane, cranky malicious old coot, maybe there is something good the powers that be know he should stay alive yet to do. And I never try to second guess them.
I do.
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#8. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
so I don't begrudge him his existence.
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