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'Get out of here, you low-life scum': John McCain defended longtime ally Henry Kissinger

Dec 01, 2023 View Original Article
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    -46% Medium Liberal

  • Reliability

    90% ReliableExcellent

  • Policy Leaning

    10% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -11% Negative

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48% : At McCain's 2015 Armed Services Committee meeting, Kissinger was set to testify on national security strategy with fellow former Secretaries of State George Shultz and Madeleine Albright.
32% : His name came up in the first presidential debate between McCain, that year's GOP nominee, and then-Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., who tangled over whether Kissinger supported negotiations with Iran without preconditions.
31% : "McCain, R-Ariz., was chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee when he erupted at activists who surrounded one of the panel's guest witnesses, controversial former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.
12% : After Obama brought McCain's adviser into the conversation, McCain countered that Kissinger supported diplomatic talks without preconditions but not at the president-to-president level and that Obama previously had said he would sit down with presidents of Iran, Venezuela and Cuba.

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