So Dies a Neocon: Obama and Bush, not Trump, Invited to the Funeral of John McCain
By Julio
Severo
As neocons from both parties are paying
tribute to Senator John McCain, preparations for his funeral are underway and
even though Obama and Bush have been invited, President Donald Trump was not.
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| John McCain |
McCain, who had been diagnosed with an
aggressive and rare form of brain cancer last year, died on Saturday at the age
of 81.
According to a report by the New York
Times, vice president Mike Pence was invited to the services but not Trump.
McCain had requested that George W Bush
and Barack Obama deliver the eulogies at his funeral.
Two family members reiterated to CNN on
Saturday that Trump won’t be present at the service.
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| John McCain with neo-Nazi leader in Ukraine |
“My deepest sympathies and respect go out
to the family of Senator John McCain,” he wrote. “Our hearts and prayers are
with you!”
McCain began to attack Trump in June 2015
when Trump announced he was running for president and called Mexican immigrants
‘rapists’ and drug runners during a speech.
McCain distanced himself from Trump saying
in an interview that he disagreed with Trump’s comment. Trump fired back by
calling McCain “incompetent.”
Another issue that enraged McCain is that
in 2016 Trump criticized neocons and their eternal wars. No
presidential candidate attacked so much neocons as Trump did, and McCain was
a prominent neocon.
In a 2016 tweet Trump slammed the senator
as “foul mouthed” and in a 2017 post he lashed out at McCain for supporting
ObamaCare.
Trump mocked McCain’s record as a prisoner
of war during the Vietnam War saying that McCain was only labeled a hero
“because he was captured.”
For his part, McCain publicly criticized
Trump on numerous occasions. In a July statement, McCain lashed out at Trump for
his meeting in Helsinki with Russian president Vladimir Putin.
McCain said of Trump’s comments: “No prior
president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.”
McCain again bashed Trump in March when
Trump congratulated Putin on re-election.
“An American president does not lead the
free world by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections,” McCain said.
McCain,
who was the defeated Republican presidential candidate in 2008, was not so
critical of Obama, the victorious contender, as he was of Trump.
The senator also wrote about his
long-standing feud with Trump in his memoir The Restless Wave saying that
Trump’s behavior was disturbing.
“His lack of empathy for refugees,
innocent, persecuted, desperate men, women, and children, is disturbing,” the
book read. “The way he speaks about them is appalling, as if welfare or
terrorism were the only purposes they could have in coming to our country.”
“His reaction to unflattering news
stories, calling them ‘fake news,’ whether they're credible or not, is copied
by autocrats who want to discredit and control a free press,” McCain wrote. “He
has declined to distinguish the actions of our government from the crimes of
despotic ones. He has showered with praise some of the world's worst tyrants.”
He
has reportedly received over $100,000 from billionaire
liberal activist-funder George Soros, who, by the way, has campaigned also
against Russia.
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| John McCain with Islamic terrorists in Syria |
Wars supported by McCain in the Middle
East provoked the slaughter of defenseless Christian communities. In spite of
the fact that he never cared about such Christians suffering persecution and
death, some U.S. Christians are honoring McCain’s death. All I could say, in a
tweet, was:
Neocon
John McCain celebrated wars while their Christian victims perished. That some
U.S. Christians are honoring the death of this warmonger shows their cold
hearts for the Christian victims of his despicable warmongering.
With
information from the DailyMail.
Portuguese version of this article: Assim
morre um neocon: Obama e Bush, não Trump, convidados para o funeral de John
McCain
Source:
Last
Days Watchman
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