US Senator McCain ending medical treatment for brain cancer
Republican US Senator John McCain of Arizona, who has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for more than a year, will no longer be treated for his condition, entering the final days of his life.
“With his usual strength of will, he has now chosen to discontinue medical treatment” for his glioblastoma, McCain’s family said in a statement on Friday.
“John has surpassed expectations for his survival,” the family said, adding that the disease’s progression and McCain’s age, 81, have led him to stop the treatment.
People close to him say his death is imminent. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in July 2017 and has been absent from Washington since December.
US Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, said his colleague is in his “final hours.”
McCain has represented the state of Arizona in both chambers of Congress for 35 years. He also ran unsuccessfully for the White House twice in 2000 and 2008.
He has been a rare and outspoken Republican critic of President Donald Trump, which has led to a running feud between them. The McCain-Trump relationship grew tense in 2015 when McCain said Trump’s presidential candidacy had “fired up the crazies.”
Trump has yet to say anything publicly about John McCain since McCain's announcement this morning.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 24, 2018
He even spoke at a Republican dinner tonight and failed to mention McCain.https://t.co/y5e0AdMKse
Subsequently, Trump said that McCain, who survived at a prison camp during the Vietnam War, was “not a war hero.”
"He's not a war hero. He's a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren't captured," he said in July 2015 at a conference in Ames, Iowa, while running for the White House.
McCain became a fighter pilot during the Vietnam War. He was taken prisoner by north Vietnamese soldiers after being shot down during a bombing assault over Hanoi. He was held in captivity for nearly six years.
McCain formed a strong bond with his fellow Republican Senator Lindsey Graham over their hawkish foreign policy.
Incomplete list of the wars that caused the death of millions of innocent civilians supported by the war criminal known as John McCain:
— Enrico Ivanov ☦ (@Russ_Warrior) August 25, 2018
_ Syria
_ Ukraine
_ Libya
_ Yemen
_ Iraq
_ Afghanistan
_ Jugoslavia
_ Somalia
_ Vietnam
In an appearance in South Carolina during his 2008 presidential campaign, he responded to an audience question about military action against Iran by saying “[have you heard of] that old Beach Boys song, 'Bomb Iran'."
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