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Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) on Sunday night compared Syrian President Bashar Assad to former Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, who was recently killed by rebels, and indicated Assad could be next.

"The Assad regime has spilled too much blood to stay in power,” McCain told the crowd at the 2011 AIPAC Summit at the Scottsdale Princess Resort, according to the Associated Press report. “Its days are numbered, but it will use those days to murder more of its own people.  In this way, there is no moral distinction whatsoever between the case of Syria and that of Libya.”

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