John McCain was an extreme right-wing lifelong warmonger. Here are some of his greatest (bloodiest) hits
Republican Senator John McCain has died.
While the leading figures in the liberal Resistance™ are whitewashing him because of his criticism of the vile vomit-inducing billionaire-in-chief Donald Trump, McCain was in fact an unrepentant lifelong warmonger who fueled catastrophic, criminal US wars that killed millions of civilians.
McCain also happened to condemn peace activists as “scum.”
The following is a map from 2013 of just some of the countries where the extreme right-wing senator had called for US military intervention. (And this map does not even include the unspeakably murderous US wars in east and southeast Asia — Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos — which McCain of course staunchly supported. It also ignores the countries in Latin America where he backed US military intervention.)
While it is widely known that McCain was a vociferous advocate for the illegal US invasion of Iraq, he was much, much more.
Here is a list of other fun facts about McCain:
- When peace activists protested war criminal Henry Kissinger in the Senate in 2015, John McCain called their demonstration “despicable” and shouted at them, “Get out of here, you low life scum!”
- McCain sang “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!” at a public event.
- After helping the US military massacre Vietnamese civilians in a borderline genocidal onslaught that killed nearly 4 million Vietnamese, the late Sen. McCain remained a proud lifelong racist, declaring: “I hate the g**ks. I will hate them as long as I live.”
- McCain was once on the advisory board of the US affiliate of the pro-fascist far-right World Anti-Communist League, which had infamous Nazi collaborators as members and which supported death squads in Latin America.
- John McCain welcomed a Ukrainian neo-Nazi leader into his office in 2017. (Paul Ryan did too.)
- In 2013, Sen. McCain went to Ukraine and hung out with another neo-Nazi leader. (Although don’t worry, Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy joined him. Look, American bipartisanism at work!)
- McCain was a staunch supporter of the CIA-backed, al-Qaeda-linked Salafi extremist opposition in Syria. In fact the late senator posed in a photo with a rebel who was involved in kidnapping 11 Lebanese Shia civilians.
Journalist Abby Martin made the best obituary for Sen. John McCain — back in 2015:
