McCain applauds Raytheon’s ‘wonderful missiles’

By David Edwards
Monday, July 19, 2010 10:44 EST
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Sen. John McCain seems to love all things military.

At a debate this weekend, the Arizona senator went so far as to declare that missiles produced by one defense contractor were “wonderful.”

“What I would do is to give our small businesses a tax break,” McCain explained.

“I would tell the corporations which are very important, like Intel and Raytheon and others in our state, we’ll cut the corporate tax rates so that you won’t have to send jobs overseas. We’ll continue… I’ll continue to support the military and our bases and the men and women who are there and the thousands of employees, including our people over in Mesa that make the Apache helicopter and down at Raytheon that make these wonderful missiles and Intel that’s doing such a great job in employing so many people that I’ve supported for so many years,” he said.

Heather at the liberal blog Crooks and Liars wrote:

“Wonderful missiles”… I can’t believe he said that, but he did. I can’t think of a single reason to call missiles “wonderful” unless you think dropping bombs on people’s heads is a “wonderful” thing. There’s an argument to be made for “necessary” for civil defense which I’m not going to get into the weeds on here since IMO we’re over-armed to a ridiculous extent for what’s actually necessary for civil defense and have been for some time now, but “wonderful”?

The comment was reminiscent of remarks McCain made at a campaign stop in 2007 when he sang “bomb, bomb Iran” to the tune of of a popular Beach Boys song.

This video is from C-SPAN, broadcast July 17, 2010 and uploaded by Crooks and Liars. McCain’s comment (about missiles) is at about 1:25.

David Edwards
David Edwards
David Edwards has served as an editor at Raw Story since 2006. His work can also be found at Crooks & Liars, and he's also been published at The BRAD BLOG. He came to Raw Story after working as a network manager for the state of North Carolina and as as engineer developing enterprise resource planning software. Follow him on Twitter at @DavidEdwards.
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  • ericroded

    LDRS.

    Wonderful Missiles.

    NEXT.

  • Democratic_Socialist

    Yo! Arizona! Make up a little for your “hate law” and help this old fart “retire”!

  • ARealAmerican2

    McCain is such an lying idiot. He talks about giving “small” businesses tax breaks and then cites corporations like Intel and Raytheon. Small businesses? Intel? Raytheon? The Repukes always start off talking about small businesses and then change the subject to giant corporations. America dodged a real bullet when it rejected this two-faced prick.

  • michaelvalentine

    How come McCain never told us how to win the war in Iraq.

    I mean he said he knew how but I guess that since he lost the election he just doesn't care.

  • shediac

    Wait a minute…I want one…call the NRA…we should all have one! What if my nasty crocked neighbor gets one before me?

  • billfromny

    Beautiful barbed wire fences, and fabulous fallout shelters.

  • shinyorbs

    I am so thankful this old man and caribou barbie didn't get elected, holy hell

  • mindboggeling

    Wonderful missiles. Wonderful missiles kill people! Some good,some bad! Wonderful! What is wonderful about killing people? It is time for McCain, Romney and palen to think about what they are saying! They all want more “wonderful” weapons even though we have more than all other countries combined! Once again I have to ask why are the republicans so afraid? All these politicians wear their religions on their sleeves. They all say their religion is so important to them. If they really believe in god and their faith, won't god take care of and protect them? Isn't their religion against killing others? The republican family values. Dominate the world by fear and violence! If that doesn't say family values I don't know what does! How dumb are the republican voters who vote for these fools?

  • Yavo

    The wonderful beautiful military industrial complex. What more proof does a person need that Eisenhower was a commie when he warned us of the military industrial complex.

    Look at how billions can be made. All you need is a nutjob in office like Raygun. Have an idea like Star Wars. Spent billions and billions on the project only to find out it flops. But hey billions for flops is a cool way to make money. They told Raygun that he wasn't really the president, that he was an actor making a movie, and to just sign right here, yea right here on this military industrial contract.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/243HMPJWIG277BUEZIHIQUHHA4 Marco

    Suspect Device.

  • liberaldawg

    Why not insist that companies like Raytheon, General Dynamics and Lockheed-Martin
    use only American labor. The bidding process is a joke and these companies routinely underbid
    by 1/3. At least let Americans benefit from the crooked military industrial complex.

  • B_Godot

    So when they say 'small business' they mean like $18.4 billion market capitalization of Raytheon & $118.5 billion m.c. of Intel. So 'mom & pop' enterprizes are what, microscopic businesses?

    I guess the Republicans have always been for 'small business.' lol

  • Hologram5

    This asshat just graduated from tool box to the entire shed. WOW is this guy dumb…

  • ron1127

    These nitwits want to cut the corporate tax rate to keep big companies from shipping jobs overseas????!!!!!

    Meanwhile, the American worker is still competing for low wages as the wealthy owners' (who will donate to Republicans for this windfall) become super wealthy. The tax burden for the Republican gift to the boss will be upon the backs of the workers.

  • overdoneputaforkinit

    Let's give Arizona back to the Mexicans. They can have Arizona and the best part is we get rid of McCain.

  • cessnadriver

    A shed full of really crappy tools from the 99-cents-only store.

  • chabuka

    OOOHHH….Its so shiny..so big…so pwerful….how many people can it kill at one time…?….so exciting….! OOOHHH…I think I've wet myself

  • dennycrane

    …”Apache helicopter”…. If I was an Apache I would rename that to “McShit” missile. Bitch about sport teams being name, how about your name on a fucking missile? Unless, the mighty Apache Nation had to have missiles to use against the filthy capitalistic pigs like McShit.

  • dennycrane

    “War has been very, very good to me,”– Pele. Ooops! I mean McShit.

  • dennycrane

    Here is one of your buddies, McShit:

    http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/…

  • hounddogg

    he loves the shape…

  • Badscorp

    Yes, maybe one day a missile will drop on YOU, Mr. McCain. It would be a ticker-tape event. What a moron. People in AZ just LOVE this loser. This country is heading into absolute FREEFALL largely in part because of the over indulgences of the last party in “control” and McCain wants to see MORE missiles. Thats just what we need, thanks. John McCain is like the dumb jock who has great biceps and loves to flex them when he can't say anything intelligent. John McCain typifies most of the population in Arizona (Phoenix city proper, tends to lean left, only a little) and they're a great match. AZ should be EXPELLED from the union.

  • Badscorp

    Religious fear and zealotry is just they're way of controlling the masses. Its poppycock.

  • Badscorp

    It will never happen. The runner up in this stupid GObP primary is JD Hayworth ANOTHER worthless idiot. He hates EVERYONE thats not White, Employed, Married with lots of children and Straight. He and John McNobrain are soooo typical of the AZ resident profile. Its a pathetic and useless state and they're finally making sure the rest of the country and the World is FULLY aware of it now.

  • Democratic_Socialist

    Maybe when Texas secedes, Arizona will join them!

  • http://myspace.com/timbravo Tim Bravo

    I'm sure the argument from McCain's supporters would be that these missles are wonderful because they keep Amurica safe by blowing up terrorists over there instead of over here.

    Of course, that's bullshit because the terrorist threat was created and inflated by conservatives for the purpose of extorting millions from American taxpayers for these wonderful missles.

  • http://historyindeed.com HIStory Indeed

    Hey McCain, raise your hands if you think war's a good thing…

    Sorry folks but sometimes people need to be slapped in the face with the handicaps that wars and missiles produce in order to learn a new way to work out their differences.

    You'd think with all of his life's experience he'd see war and its tools from a more evolved perspective.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    I would suggest that John McCain would be a true Christian and a true conservative if he could find jobs to replace all those people making those wonderful bombs and promote peace.

    I just didn't really say that did I? conservative and peace in the same sentence?

  • dennycrane

    Hopefully, their local MalWart store sells sun screen that contains lead.

  • UnkindByDesign

    Someone should call the Vet and take this pathetic old dog out of his misery. MC Cain was semi senile 30 years ago and his condition is not improving

  • dennycrane

    He can't raise his hands high because he was “tortured” by the people he later spilled his guts to when he got shot out of the sky.. But, when he has to raise his hand, he carries an embalmed arm of a soldier he ratted out and uses it as a prop.

  • meggafish

    This is why the country is collapsing, morons like McCain. I'm an old white guy, but I'm ashamed by these old whores running our nation, not for the people, but for military industrial complex and a foreign power whose name I fear to say, but begins with I and ends with L

  • Anonymous

    Dear God Almighty what the hell gives with this senile, mindless and miserable old goat? If he’s truly representative of that state I’m glad I’ve never been there.

  • jimthebeam

    also the bogus point he tried to make about cutting taxes so companies don't “have” to send jobs over seas. Tax is on profit. Payroll is tax deductible and is a cost of doing business ie you must cover payroll before you can make a profit. Therefore the two are not linked.

  • MyUsernameWasStolen

    How could Raytheon or Intel *possibly* qualify as “small businesses? Maybe once upon a time, sure, but these days, they're giants. If the message was meant to be that small business can grow, then John Dubya McCain failed to not only make that point, but had he been clear, he'd be pushing the notion that success by outsourcing, slash-and-burn competitiveness, and other similar business practices used by these outfits is a *good* thing.

  • SynGas

    King of the Drill Babies and a Poster Child for the ill effects of PTSD. One scary mfkr. Where would we be now if He had “won” the election? 30 more DeepWater Horizons and a nuked Iran with plenty of BlowBack? Vampire of the Undead ejaculating to WMD porn. Throw garlic at him, watch him squirm.

  • seen2much

    Listening to you party types tell even the truth is still only the sound of one hand clapping…

    Sure, Mc-”never met a defense contractor I didn't love”-Cain is a good example of what's wrong with neonazicons, they are nothing but warmongering trash… But who else is on the defense budget committees? I wonder.. Could any demoncraps be on them? Could any demoncrap politicians be bought and paid for by the war machine?????

    You party types are left-righting us one double-time step at a time over the cliff of oblivion…

    Republicans AND democrats EQUALLY suck.

  • http://twitter.com/shivabeach Shiva

    “Republicans AND democrats EQUALLY suck. “

    I can buy that

  • aesop55

    Raytheon is one of the biggest manufacturers of land mines. Just the kind of corporation that I would want in my back yard…….. What a dammed fool…….

  • scytherius

    John McCain sold out our POWs. He is a great American traitor and coward. Only a TeaBagger would love this POS.

  • scytherius

    “Republicans AND democrats EQUALLY suck. “

    No argument there.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/UOCPWPZ2LCUMYFAQGR6MHTLHJM GaryP

    This fucker STILL hasn't paid us back for the FIVE jets he crashed during training and combat back in the '60s…

  • crowseye

    “We liberated Afghanistan from the murderous rule of the Taliban.”

    - John McCain

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/11/the…

  • crowseye

    “We do not want to believe that 19 men could murder our citizens, destroy our grandest buildings and terrorize our country.”

    - John McCain

    Which 19 men? Names, Senator. We want names.

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/04/11/the…

  • crowseye

    “And so those who are unsatisfied with the ordinary truth of the 9/11 attacks have concocted stories more fanciful, more conspiratorial than the events as we know them.”

    - John McCain

    More “fanciful” than this, Senator?

    http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2010/07/10/we-…

  • rsb1

    REMEMBER THE U.S.S. FORRESTAL INCIDENT – 29 JUL 1967

  • http://twitter.com/sacxtra sacxtra

    you'll need some LUBE with that missile

  • oktoss

    Perhaps Grandpa McCain applauds missiles because he found out they're more intelligent than Sarah Palin.

  • an0id

    Republicons and Demoncraps.

    You americans are funny. You guys should get a 3rd option.

  • drunkfoulmouthfilthybeast

    Is Johnny MacClain jumper applauding? Why? Because they didn't work after a couple of trillion dollars test or the missles were not pointing at HIM.

  • George

    And you have your freedom thanks to men like McCain who have served for us. Your ignorance and ego are disgusting and you should find another country to live in. You are beyond the filth that I cannot stand. McCain has served our Country for years upon years and I would bet my house that you have never so much as read a respectable article on our Country and history. McCain WILL be re-elected. McCain is THE BEST CANDIDATE we have. There is no way the slimy, corrupt hypocrite JD will walk into his seat…no chance!

  • George

    Perhaps you better check you integrity before you mention that Palin is perhaps more intelligent they you could ever dream of being. On another note, McCain is INTELLIGENT and he IS the guy who will be re-elected to protect you and your family from the extreme left administration who is mounting a debt that is disgusting and trying to socialize our great Nation.

  • George

    problems with the comment section loading please fix

  • George

    the comment section does not work well again. please fix

  • George

    also why do more than one person have my screen name????

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    Did it ever occur to you that there is probably someone else out there called George? Try a more unique screen name. If someone else is using your new screen name, it should be obvious to everybody. This is the Internet (aka the new Wild West) . There are none of the same protections that there are in the real world. Each site administrator (moderator) is responsible for policing their site. Please bring your problem to their attention.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    If Sarah Palin is really intelligent she sure has a strange way of showing it. Same for John McCain.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    No, we have our freedom because it is guaranteed in our Constitution, not because brave men fought on our behalf. Freedom is intrinsic, not a commodity that is conferred on us by brave but ordinary men. I read and studied a lot about our country, so although you may not like my opinions, I am well-read and well informed. Unfortunately, I agree with you about J.D. Heyworth. He is a slimeball and will not win the primary. Unfortunately, that means Arizona will probably be stuck with McCain. I have nothing against McCain except that his simplistic world view indicates to me that at nearly eighty he is becoming senile. Sorry. He is a brave man, but I am not going to kiss his ass for something he did forty years ago.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    I worked for Raytheon as a contractor on the Patriot missile program. It was the biggest two-fisted jerk job I have ever personally seen.

    I fully concur with your point of view.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    The third category is : SANITY.

    I reside there.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    Your fallout shelter would now be your vacation home.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Richard-Cleary/685251799 Richard Cleary

    Or Geritol.

  • oktoss

    I haven't frauded my state government out of money. I haven't made downright asinine comments then smiled when my groundlings cheered, I don't jump up and down and scream in unknown tongues then try to sell my own brand of *pseudo-intellectualism* to the public.

    I don't preach chastity while my underaged daughter is bonking her bf out of wedlock. Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston have done more to harm the sanctity of marriage than ANY same-sex couple could do but Sarah finds a way to condemn others.

    The ONLY intelligent thing McCain has ever said was when he called his wife a cunt. Nice people.

    The only threat I see to myself from my government is the fascists who are out of power and desperately want it back.

    Lastly, I composed the entire preceding with out having to stoop to your level of personal attack. Sarah Palin can't do that.

    You don't know me.

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