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US SENATOR AND former Republican presidential candidate John McCain has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer.
80-year-old McCain had been absent from Washington DC in recent days after undergoing surgery to remove a tumour and blood clot from above his right eye last Friday.
The veteran Arizona senator’s absence had proven especially problematic for Republican lawmakers in recent days as they tried desperately to get some form of their Obamacare replacement bill through the Senate, a bid that has now ended in failure in McCain’s absence.
McCain’s tumour is known as a glioblastoma – a highly aggressive cancer that begins in the brain.
It had initially been reported that the surgery had been merely to remove the aforementioned blood clot, but in the intervening days rumours had abounded that McCain’s condition was more serious.
A statement from his office stated that he and his family are “reviewing further treatment options”.
“Treatment options may include a combination of chemotherapy and radiation,” the statement said.
The senator’s doctors say he is recovering from his surgery ‘amazingly well’ and his underlying health is excellent.
McCain has proven to be a rather moderate voice on the Republican side of Washington DC in the six months since President Donald Trump took office, and has frequently (along with fellow rebel senator Lindsey Graham) expressed criticism for Trump’s more extreme policies and his behaviour on social media.
Speaking in light of McCain’s diagnosis, Graham said that the disease “has never had a more worthy opponent”.
McCain ran for the US presidency against Democrat opponent Barack Obama in the 2008 US election, with controversial governor of Alaska Sarah Palin as his running mate.
In the event, he won 173 electoral college votes versus Obama’s 365.
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One of my students did his history leaving cert project on his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Such a strong person to survive the plane crash, broken legs, torture, and years of captivity. But to Trump he’s not a hero as he was captured.
@Stan Stynes:
McCain should be indicted in the Hague for war crimes, notably for his involvement in the coup in Ukraine. McCain hasn’t ever seen a US war of aggression (illegal under UN and Nuremburg) that he didn’t like. Frankly, good riddance to the man, sooner the better.
@Mike Hall: What kompromat has Putin on you?
@Mike Hall: your comment makes no sense
@Mike Hall: Please cite what war crimes McCain committed in the Ukraine (or elsewhere for that matter). Such slanderous accusations should at least be backed up with some sort of evidence, don’t you think?
@Malachi: Didn’t he admit he was guilty of war crimes in Vietnam? Being a Skyhawk dive bomber pilot there I doubt there’ll be much pity for him given what was dropped on the Vietnamese people.
@Malachi: Mike Hall is well known on this site for his pro Putin/Russia stance. So anything he say regarding either needs to read with a healthy dose of scepticism.
@Cormac Ó Braonáin: His ‘admission’ that he committed war crimes isn’t exactly an admission.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/mccain/warcriminal.asp
A quote of his during an interview was taken out of a very important context – his captors forced him into a confession of these alleged war crimes against his will.
Regardless, there’s no doubt he, like the US army in general, were out doing very bad things in Vietnam. I don’t think the name war criminal suits him, however, when we can’t even get that title to stick to people like Henry Kissinger (who was instrumental in prolonging the misery of the Vietnamese people in order to further his own political ambitions).
@Stan Stynes:
Yeah, you do know that McCain met with rapist and terrorist Islamic State founder Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi a few years back. He’s no hero.
@Malachi: Why should anyone do the ground work for you? To most people who know the mans politics he is no Dove and for the record anyone who sees Ukraine as a victim is sadly way way out of touch with reality. Do your own research, he is an unsavoury character.
@Austin Rock: being glad that somebody got cancer takes a special kind of hate. Hoping they don’t survive is worse. That’s what people were replying to.
Horrible disease. Brave man. Hope he beats it.
@Deborah Behan:
He tried to destroy Syria by arming Jihadist and opposition groups against the Syrian people and the government, fortunately he won’t beat Syria.
@Rowe: the Syrian government has attacked its own innocent civilians intentionally numerous times, stop portraying them as the good guys.
Hard to feel sorry.for a war mongerer who has played a pivotal role in the deaths and displacement of millions.
@Brendan Moran: then the respectful thing to do would be to not say anything at all
@Dave O Keeffe:
Afraid he wouldn’t get any “likes” if he did that.
I am keeping him in my thoughts and preyors
Before he’s a Senator or war veteran, he’s a husband and father. We all need to place that first in our minds. Maybe that is the difference between the political activists of all hues that destroy our world, and the rest of us that have to clean up the messes they make. They see the monster, we see the person.
While I wish his party frustration of their goals, I wish him a speedy recovery. If you can’t make that distinction, that says more to me about you than it does about him.
@Colm Flaherty:
Well done Sir, one of the best comments i have seen on here in a while.
That is a nasty cancer. While I don’t particularly like the man, I wish him all the best.
Poor guy but hardly a moderate.
On US domestic issues such as emigration a moderate…..However from 2011 big supporter of Obama regime change policy in Syria….
@Damien Mc Padden: in the lady six months he was and that’s what the article says.
@John003:
Quite for any regime change or conflict. Name one recent conflict or regime change that he was against?
@George Vladisavljevic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2762680/Feeding-frenzy-debunks-Rand-Paul-claim-John-McCain-met-ISIS-linked-jihadists-Syria.html Soro’s right hand man…
Explains his questioning of Comey at the Senate hearings alright…. his rambling and incoherent train of thought probably led to him being medically assessed….
@Stan Stynes: They nick named him ‘songbird McCain’ – he stabbed his fellow prisoners of war in the back, just like he continueds to do to the American people of his Country. He’s killed more U.S. servicemen single-handily than most of America’s single enemy adversaries. Which leads me to believe he is a murderous traitor. Many good fellow soldiers lost their lives because of this hot-head coward.
@Patrick Kavanagh: There are quite a few stances McCain took that I strongly disagree with, mostly his strong support for the Saudi military, however the POW thing is a complete non-issue.
There have been countless investigations into the idea that there were hundreds of live POWs left behind in Vietnam and it’s quite obvious that such a thing is untrue. Claiming he stabbed POWs in the back is madness – the man has led the most comprehensive investigation into the accusations yet and has been a vocal opponent of the CIA’s torture of their prisoners. Calling him a ‘murderous traitor’ is just outrageous, you haven’t brought up anything to substantiate that claim
@methodical2020: Grand – if you have evidence that contradicts the findings of the official inquiry then I’d love to see it. Otherwise you’re on shaky ground. I’m very happy to denounce an official investigation if the facts are there to contradict it.
So, whenever you’re ready.
@Malachi:
Well the traitor globalist did meet with Baghdadi for tea..
https://www.google.ie/search?q=john+mccain+met+abu+bakr+al-baghdadi&client=ms-android-oneplus&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjLg-nr4ZjVAhVCJlAKHV1RAuYQ_AUICSgB&biw=360&bih=560#imgrc=LqdtPpdybxi68M:
@Rowe: wrong again fool http://www.snopes.com/john-mccain-meets-isis-leader/
Only the actions of the just smell sweet ,and blossom in their dust .
@Anthony Gallagher: Ask George Soros about him?
@Anthony Gallagher: http://theduran.com/the-john-mccain-institute-funded-by-george-soros-exposed/
@Alois Irlmaier: get better sources
Our prayers are with him.
@Emmet Dillane: Oven ready…
The ignorance and complete stupidity of a lot of the commenters here is just mind boggling
@Greirat:
Welcome to the journal
Might have got it from his visit to Kiev that started off the civil war there…. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/dec/15/john-mccain-ukraine-protests-support-just-cause
Chernobyl is just 58 miles by air from Kiev?
@Alois Irlmaier: so he started the civil war in Ukraine by visiting during a riot that caused the civil war?
Great man etc etc …. Puke!! I know nobody deserves his ailment . But anyone with a bit of savvy should look closely at him and his dad before him … Were biggest war hawks , false flag ops., and sacrificing his own troops for propaganda spewing purposes and of course the USS LIBERTY , central American slaughter . Call a spade a spade …. He’s a horrible b’stard as was his father and has lots blood on his hands
Karma’s a Biatch!
Dudley Moore had the same illness
Unfortunate for Mc Cain
@Quentin Moriarty: That was a determination of the brain and was not cancer I believe?
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