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Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Libyan opposition leaders received a major morale boost Friday when a altitude U.S. senator made a surprise visit to the riot fort of Benghazi and urged greater American involvement in the cruel campaign to oust strongman Moammar Gadhafi.

The visit from Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, came a daytime later the United States said it was deploying predator drones to Libya.

McCain said the drones would increase NATO's capacity in the war-torn North black country, but not enough to make up a shortfall in assets needed to crash a "premonitory degree of stalemate."

He said he was opposition U.S. crews ashore the ground -- echoing Obama government policy -- yet disputed that Western powers absence to do more to "assist" the delivery of weapons and training for the rebels.

"We have prevented the worst sequel in Libya," McCain told reporters. "Now we need to increase our support so that the Libyan people can attain the only satisfactory outcome to this hunk protest for global rights -- the end of Gadhafi's rule and the beginning of a peaceful and inclusive transition to democracy that will benefit always Libyans."

McCain, the top Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, is a former presidential nominee and decorated Navy practiced. The five-term senator is thought a senior congressional negotiator on military and exotic policy matters.

McCain is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Libya since the clash erupted in February. During his visit, he challenged critics of NATO's intervention to tour Benghazi and discern a "mighty and hopeful sample of what a free Libya can be."

The senator was saluted by a heap of roughly 100 Libyans waving American flags.

"Thank you John McCain! Thank you Obama," people psalmed. "Thank you America! We need freedom! Gadhafi go away,monster beats!"

McCain visited Benghazi's Freedom Square, accompanied along, among others, Abdul Hafiz Ghoga, deputy leader of the against Transitional National Council. He ceased by a courthouse wall covered with a crowd of pictures of people allegedly annihilated by Gadhafi's forces and others who have gone lacking since uprisings began.

"The American people patronize you very strongly, and we understand it's necessary to help as many as we can," McCain told a female who thanked him for U.S. assist.

As McCain met with the rebels, miles away in western Libya, a ferocious combat persisted to anger for control of Misrata, the country's third-largest metropolis. Misrata has been beneath encircle for 7 weeks by Gadhafi loyalists.

"Let's face it. This is not a fair fight," McCain asserted. "Maybe we ought be act anything we can to help these people and possibly we're not, and they're dying."

While McCain insisted he would not have gone to Libya without the backing of the White House, a top Middle East analyst told CNN the senator's trip would addition the oppression on President Barack Obama to more and more U.S. involvement.

McCain "brings more limelight to the rebels," said Michael Rubin, a Middle East savant with the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative Washington think tank. "His visit forces some American officials to reconsider their assessment of the rebels."

"The fact namely McCain was skillful to behaviour this conference shows a modicum of union (among the rebels) and also heaves the question: whether McCain tin encounter the people as whom we are fighting, why not Secretary of State Hillary Clinton? Why no Vice President Joe Biden?"

If McCain returns to Capitol Hill and demands prim recognition of the rebel government for the legitimate representative of the Libyan people, it is certain to shift the discussion on U.S. diplomatic posture, Rubin said.

If all antagonists of the intervention "have done is sit back comfortably in Washington, it will be harder for them to drum up moral legislature to behind their contentions," he noted.

Asked by CNN to define the U.S. end game in Libya, McCain said he envisions "a departure of Moammar Gadhafi and the Libyan people creature able to set up a administration by themselves, with the alms mainly of the Europeans but also the United States of USA."

"Libya is much closer to Europe, and Europeans have greater ties to Libya and greater interests," McCain noted.

The United Nations has approved military deed only to protect civilians. Both American and European leaders, although, have again stated that their political goal is the ouster of Gadhafi.

What would the Gadhafi's departure mean?

"It means 1 of 3 things," McCain said. "He joins Hugo Chavez in Venezuela or he goes to International Criminal Court, which is my favorite, or he joins Hitler and Stalin."

The senator noted that rebel leaders have insisted Gadhafi step down from power, significantly reducing the accidents for a political settlement.

When Gadhafi's forces were appearance Benghazi, the dictator said he "was going to go house to house and kill each person that he could," McCain added. "There is no doubt what Col. Gadhafi ambition do to his own people if he has the chance. ... That's not a accommodation. That's a slaughter."

McCain defended the track disc of predator drones in Pakistan and Afghanistan, arguing that their use has only resulted in civilian deaths when targets have been misidentified.

Contacted by CNN, McCain's office declined to state how the senator's surprise trip was funded.
CNN's Moni Basu, Reza Sayah, and Alan Silverleib endowed apt this report
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