Posted on 07/25/2015 10:15:17 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
Did Richard Nixon pardon John “Songbird” McCain of charges as serious as treason and did our defunct mainstream media hide this horrific side of a man who would have been our president in 2008, save only for a Black being on the ticket? What is the truth here? “Colonel Ted Guy was preparing criminal charges against John McCain when Nixon took Admiral McCain’s little boy under his wing. Where are McCain’s 32 propaganda tapes that were made during Vietnam and broadcast over the radio to US troops?” asks Gordon Duff, a disabled, Marine combat veteran of Vietnam writing about the McCain story. Duff is a longtime activist for veterans and POW issues.
Here is an anonymous writer, an active Marine in ’08, who claims to know of and tells the “True Military Record of John McCain.” For 23 combat missions (an estimated 20 hours over enemy territory), the U.S. Navy awarded McCain a Silver Star, a Legion of Merit for Valor, a Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Stars, two Commendation medals plus two Purple Hearts and a dozen service medals.
‘McCain had roughly 20 hours in combat,’ explains Bill Bell, a veteran of Vietnam and former chief of the U.S. Office for POW/MIA Affairs-the first official U.S. representative in Vietnam since the 1973 fall of Saigon. “As McCain got 28 medals, Bell continues, that equals out to nearly a medal-and-a-half for each hour he spent in combat. There were infantry guys-grunts on the ground-who had more than 7,000 hours in combat and I can tell you that there were times and situations where I’m sure a prison cell would have looked pretty good to them by comparison.”
Now the fire on the Aircraft Carrier, USS Forrestal bodes even more controversy. One blogger felt that McCain acted...
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my gut has always told me that these acts of heroism were way over blown, if not just flat out made up.
There is precedent. JFK became a hero for letting his PT boat get rammed by a Japanese destroyer.
McCain has a long history as a civilian to critize. No need to revisit his military time.
MacArthur awarded him the Silver Star for going along as an observer on a single bombing mission.
MacArthur had LBJ's number early, and figured he was going places after the war, and brought him into the friends of the military early with that move, anticipating post-war budgets.
McPain has perhaps outdone even John F’n Kerry for number of medals awarded per combat hour.
And...?
John Sidney McCain III, son and grandson of 4-star Navy Admirals, was sort of a disappointment to the family, with his poor performance academically at the Naval Academy, and his puzzling and short career in air combat over Viet Nam.
This was the effect of family ties trying to cover up some very stark shortcomings of performance. It was clear that even to the young McCain, that far more was expected of him than ever he would deliver.
In retrospect, probably only Edward Moore Kennedy had a less auspicious military career, serving as an enlisted aide to an armchair general in a cushy assignment, then coming home to the much more spectacular history of three older brothers, all of whom had a much more remarkable military career, one KIA, one badly wounded, and a third in the final push as an enlisted man to the defeat of Japan, serving as a Seaman Apprentice 1944-1946 (no actual combat).
Like John McCain, Ted Kennedy was a child of privilege, avoiding prosecution and possible severe criminal punishment for acts undertaken during periods of impaired judgment. Except Ted Kennedy finally had the good grace to die.
Kennedy’s commander wanted a court martial trial in that the patrol boat was rammed in broad daylight. But Kennedy’s Dad Joseph, former ambassador to England (recalled due to his sympathies for Germany), made sure his boy got the Navy Cross instead.
The oldest son, Joe Jr. was so exercised over being shown up by little borther that he volunteered for a suicide mission on a plane loaded with TNT and, sure enough, the plane exploded vaporizing Joe senior’s first choice for future president.
Kennedy was also discharged early. Whether that was normal procedure, a more-trouble-than-he’s-worth thing, the results of some string pulling, or some combination, I don’t know.
I do not know if this is going to ‘kosher’, or ‘kiboshed’, but in Live Leak dot com, there exists a French film of POW John McCain, lying in his bed!!!!
Will a freedom of information request obtain any of his or Kerry’s records?
“No need to revisit his military time.”
Are you kidding?
This has been front and center for over a week now. And little by little we’re all finding out it was largely a lie, and the rest of it was a major stretch of the imagination.
McCain got a free ride because the media perpetuated the myth of his ‘heroism’. IOW, he was able to play a large part in ruining this country because of his so-called hero status.
Sorry, but his pathetic military performance is fair game.
Been saying he needs evaluating if you know what I mean.
Not for a long, long, long time though.
I don’t doubt your account of Kennedy.
But that doesn’t change the story on McCain or it’s significance.
I have a theory about why. Does anyone believe that maybe McCain could possibly be a Democrat plant in our party?
I mean just because he says he is a Republican doesn’t make it true.
Yeah, well there is a whole forest of these plants in Congress right now, so McCain is just one poison ivy weed amongst many.
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