{"id":41790,"date":"2016-07-03T06:14:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T10:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41790"},"modified":"2016-07-03T06:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T10:16:38","slug":"challenger-kelli-ward-john-mccain-is-directly-responsible-for-the-rise-of-isis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=41790","title":{"rendered":"Challenger Kelli Ward: John McCain Is Directly Responsible for the Rise of ISIS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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by<\/span> MICHELLE MOONS
\n<\/a>BREITBART<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

Primary challenger Dr. Kelli Ward called out incumbent Republican Sen. John McCain following his fumbled criticism of President Barack Obama\u2019s role in the rise of Islamic terror group ISIS.<\/h2>\n

It is McCain\u2019s\u00a0foreign policy that is \u201cdirectly responsible,\u201d Ward said, for facilitating the rise of \u201cruthless\u201d Islamic terrorism.<\/p>\n

Ward issued the following statement in response to McCain\u2019s Thursday comments:<\/p>\n

As we got used to during his 2008 presidential campaign, John McCain has once again thrown a punch at Barack Obama and immediately apologized for it, bowing to lick the boots of the political correctness police- Not surprising for the ultimate establishment insider.<\/p>\n

I, however, am not afraid to place the blame right where it belongs: John McCain is \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the rise of ISIS. <\/b>Without his dangerously distracted foreign policy, we would not have this ruthless Islamic extremist organization that crucifies children, systematically rapes women, oppresses Christians, and throws homosexuals off rooftops.<\/p>\n

Libya and Iraq would not be the \u201cHarvard of terrorism\u201d they are now if it were not for his knee-jerk, trigger-happy foreign policy of promiscuously arming the supposedly moderate militants he says he is \u201cintimate with\u201d and overthrowing stable, albeit unsavory regimes. He even wants to stay in Iraq for 100 years and joked about risking military lives to \u201cBomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran.\u201d Even George W. Bush and Tony Blair have admitted that the 2003 invasion of Iraq created a vacuum which allowed jihadist ideologies to flourish. Our open border has given those emboldened elements access to our country and our citizens. McCain has been complicit in all of it.<\/p>\n

The reason John is currently losing a reliably red state to a rubber stamp Obama Democrat is because he is dangerously distracted with his \u201cInvade the World, Invite the World\u201d agenda. John has proposed bombing, invading, or attacking at least thirteen countries in recent years, and in addition to his support for open borders and amnesty, he also wants to dump thousands of unvetted refugees into our streets and give them welfare to boot.<\/p>\n

John McCain claims that I voted against funding the troops and that I have a weak record on national security. Any 5th grader understands that state legislators don\u2019t vote on national security legislation.<\/p>\n

As a military wife of a husband who has been deployed overseas, I will support military engagement only as a last resort, only when Constitutionally approved by Congress, and only when there is a clear strategy for victory, not endless occupations and expensive nation-building. Yes, \u00a0John McCain is \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the rise of ISIS.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The exchange began when McCain, according to<\/a> the Associated Press, appeared angry as he told reporters during Thursday\u2019s debate over the Senate spending bill that Obama is \u201cdirectly responsible\u201d for the rise of Islamic terror group ISIS.<\/p>\n

\u201cBarack Obama is directly responsible for it, because when he pulled everybody out of Iraq, al-Qaida went to Syria, became ISIS, and ISIS is what it is today thanks to Barack Obama\u2019s failures, utter failures, by pulling everybody out of Iraq,\u201d said McCain according to the AP. \u201cSo the responsibility for it lies with President Barack Obama and his failed policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

The increasingly unpopular five-term U.S. Senator from Arizona made the comments in light of Sunday\u2019s Islamic terror attack on an Orlando gay nightclub. The attack left 49 victims dead and another more than 50 injured. The mass murderer pledged allegiance to ISIS in the midst of the attack and ISIS later claimed credit for the attack.<\/p>\n

Within hours of McCain\u2019s first comment the senior senator \u2014 now facing a struggling re-election campaign \u2014\u00a0attempted<\/a> to mitigate the backlash for his prior comments.<\/p>\n

The AP quoted a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) who called McCain\u2019s comments \u201cunhinged\u201d and cited them as \u201cproof\u201d that McCain is a puppet for GOP presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

He posted two tweets:<\/p>\n

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To clarify, I was referring to Pres Obama\u2019s national security decisions that have led to rise of #ISIL<\/a>, not to the President himself<\/p>\n

— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) June 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n