Sen. John McCain said Wednesday that the Obama administration knows that Islamic State has a chemical weapons factory in Syria but that "I'm not sure they know where it is."
"We have information, public information, that they have established a chemical weapons factory there in Raqqah," the Arizona Republican told Wolf Blitzer on CNN. McCain is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
"That brings us back to this root cause, which is our failure to take out Raqqah and Mosul, because as long as they have a geographic base to export terrorism, then they're going to do it," he said. "It goes back to our failure to address the issue seriously of the Islamic State having a geographic base."
Besides not knowing specifically where the plant is, the administration would have difficulty taking it out with airstrikes because ISIS terrorists are "capable of digging underground and protecting themselves," McCain said.
"It's not so easy to take it out from the air. Air power alone does not win conflicts.
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If I was looking for it, I'd look under the hospital or the mosques.
ReplyDeleteThat's where all those Iraqi trucks with equipment and chemicals were seen heading at night before the American invasion. Bush should have intercepted instead of waiting for Congress's approval to invade Iraq.
ReplyDeleteAnd while they are cleaning peoples brains off the street in Brussels and terrorists are busily manufacturing these weapons, our idiot Potus is enjoying himself at a baseball game with his new communist friends. I'm embarrassed as an American by the lack of leadership displayed by this pathetic administration.
ReplyDelete1:32pm....you're probably correct. Most folks have accepted the democrat's talking point that there were no WMDs in Iraq and that Bush lied. It's amazing how that lie has been accepted as truth. People forget, or are too young to remember the 90s, when Clinton and the UN almost had daily press conferences on Iraq's chemical weapons.
ReplyDeleteJohn McCain is no longer relevant. I don't listen to anything he has to say.
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