McCain and Graham are in Egypt spreading their RINO ideals of compromise and ‘talk’, telling the Egyptian Army they need to release their Muslim Brotherhood political prisoners so they can all work out a compromise and live happily ever after:
THE HILL – Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) in Cairo on Tuesday met with the leader of Egypt’s military, General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and urged him to release all political prisoners as a starting point for holding free elections.
“In democracy, you sit down and talk to each other,” Graham said at a press conference Tuesday evening. “It is impossible to talk to somebody who is in jail.”
The GOP senators are visiting Egypt at the request of President Obama, weeks after the army deposed democratically elected President Mohamed Morsi. They hope to press the military to quickly transition back to civilian rule. Since Morsi’s ouster, the former president has been under house arrest, with scores of his Muslim Brotherhood supporters imprisoned.
McCain and Graham also denounced the military takeover as a “coup,” a label the Obama administration has refused to use.
“We have said we share the democratic aspirations and criticism of the Morsi government that led millions of Egyptians into the streets. … We’ve also said that the circumstances of [Morsi’s] removal was a coup,” McCain said.
“I’m not here to go through the dictionary,” said McCain, when asked to explain his choice of the word coup. “If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck.”