McCain Calls Middle East Pro-Democracy Movement a ‘Virus’

By Monday February 14, 2011

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38 Comments
  1. msbpodcast says:
    2/14/2011 at 10:36 am

    And he wants us all to get vaccinated.

    Poor McCain, he tried so hard to be another Bush but he didn’t make the cut.

    Instead we all get to enjoy watching Sarah (Im)Palin’ rattle around like the loose cannon she is.

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  2. Bahram says:
    2/14/2011 at 10:39 am

    So one and for all you old fart, popular grass-root movement resulting in democracy good, or bad? you can’t have it both ways, you can’t only say its good when you f***ng like the outcome.
    Seriously, how can such people be so blind to their own hypocrisy?

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  3. Dallas says:
    2/14/2011 at 10:51 am

    It looks like he might have had a movement during this interview

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  4. Breetai says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:10 am

    What the fuck?! Okay so Bush’s mission of spreading democracy throughout the middle east is actually fucking WORKING?! Of course now it needs to be spun as a bad thing because they still need a boogieman to instill fear in the public to ramrod home their agenda.

    There’s a false flag on the way… without a boogieman the sheeple are standing up to the patriot act. That won’t last.

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  5. bobbo, I guess its all part of an assumed process says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:19 am

    Bill Maher last night: so during a revolution in the street controlled by tanks and the military, the government is deposed by the Head of the Secret Police and the Military Commission and this is called “A Triumph for Democracy.”

    Perhaps a bit harsh, but there is more work to do?

    Sugar on Crap: Egypt is a proud culture with over 7000 years of History. There is no invigoration or information from history of the type referred to here, in Egypt or anywhere else. Just BS Spin to keep people asleep/distracted.

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  6. The King Of Jordan says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:22 am

    Dear Senator McCain,

    It’s not a virus. It’s a pandemic. Made out of pandemium molecules that leak out of the interwebbitubes.

    Get your story straight.

    -K

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  7. nicktherat says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:57 am

    im sick of Israel
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=sTszskhUrd0

    we should just scoop them all up and put them in texas instead of giving them money and weapons. they send american jews into palestinian slums with 24 hour soldiers to protect them. they tell them to have kids, thats it.

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  8. ITM says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:58 am

    What a douchebag. Where’s the jingle when I need it?

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  9. Grandpa says:
    2/14/2011 at 11:58 am

    The more he opens his mouth, the more I am glad I voted against him. Obama sucks, but not as bad as him.

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  10. pedro says:
    2/14/2011 at 12:09 pm

    As big as a head scratcher that can be, I find it even worse that castro is saluting the Egyptian people for getting rid of Mubarak’s dictatorship.

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  11. Smartalix says:
    2/14/2011 at 12:40 pm

    It is sadly as depressing as it is funny to see the right-wing asshats try and dance around the subject.

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  12. TThor says:
    2/14/2011 at 12:50 pm

    This “virus” called democracy or freedom seeking or oppression revolt… extremely dangerous.

    In what century is McCain? What an idiot!

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  13. Holdfast says:
    2/14/2011 at 1:17 pm

    Bill Gates called Open Source Software a virus once.

    Apparently, if the powerful want us to be scared of something, that is the word they use.

    It didn’t work for Gates. OSS is still here and growing. We need to make sure that democracy does the same!

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  14. dusanmal says:
    2/14/2011 at 1:27 pm

    Question is if this was true democracy movement (S.Africa for example) or “democracy” movement (Iran for example).
    All posts above assume that they know for certain this was the first case. No one knows yet. We will need year or two to weed that out. Hence, by clear logic we must conclude that there is 50-50 chance this revolution turns out democratic. At best.
    McCain assumes (equally wrong as all the posters above) the opposite. But that is what you must get from old seasoned politician, never mind military man. He assumes the worse. And there are plenty of pointers that this can be worse. Not certainty, but equal possibility…

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  15. sargasso_c says:
    2/14/2011 at 3:01 pm

    He may have been misunderstood.

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  16. Improbus says:
    2/14/2011 at 3:20 pm

    He should be afraid. His constituents have guns, unlike the Egyptians. He wouldn’t want “his” people to start think’n about Freedom.

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  17. Greg Allen says:
    2/14/2011 at 3:38 pm

    The last thing conservatives want is for oil to be democratized or nationalized so populist movements in the Middle East scare the crap out of them.

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  18. Greg Allen says:
    2/14/2011 at 3:43 pm

    >> # 4 Breetai said, on February 14th, 2011 at 11:10 am
    >> Okay so Bush’s mission of spreading democracy throughout the middle east is actually fucking WORKING?!

    This is IN SPITE OF BUSH.

    The neo-con’s (remember them?) disastrous foreign policies set back pro-democracy movements by about a decade.

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  19. pedro says:
    2/14/2011 at 3:43 pm

    #17 Not to contradict your point, but I have never seen a populist movement care about people.

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  20. admfubar says:
    2/14/2011 at 4:03 pm

    :P you do know that the trigger for this uprising in the middle east were the fires in russia?? russian wheat fields were burning last summer, and russia stopped exports of wheat to the middle east to keep what was left for their own use. with the high unemployment(some in the 30% range) and a mostly young and restless populations in these countries it is no wonder they revolted, food prices are skyrocketing there (and here too did ya notice?)
    it remains to be seen what if any democracy will be born outta this, lets just hope that egypt hand not jumped outta the pan and into the fire..

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