Posted on 10/22/2017 9:23:59 PM PDT by be-baw
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McCain, whose status as a war hero Trump publicly and controversially doubted as a 2016 presidential candidate, appeared to retaliate in kind against the president in a C-SPAN interview about the Vietnam War airing Sunday night. In the interview, McCain pointed to wealthy Americans who were able to get out of being drafted into service in the conflict in which he spent years as a prisoner of war. And he pointed to a very specific type of deferment which Trump just happened to use.
“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain said. “That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
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Trump is serving as CIC. How many billionaires take a pay cut to serve America?
What has John McCain ever done to make America great again?
Exactly....
I am one of the many on FR who still remains skeptical of Trump. But bone spurs have nothing to do with it. “The Swamp” still doesn’t get normal Americans.
This is even better than kneeling in the NFL.
Many?
McCain just can’t help but act like a spoiled child because in reality that’s all he has ever been from day one till the day he dies which with any luck will be sooner than later so we don’t have to listen to his nonsense any longer.
I think I recall a bone spur would keep you out. It wasn’t necessary to claim one. The army would doc would ask or would find it and tell you no. I had to go on a crash bulk-up diet for a month before the AF would let me in because I was underweight for my height. The Army didn’t give me the option. The army just said no.
“One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur”
Leftist narrative. Fails to take into account ROTC, OCS, and men who enlisted. Also fails to count men who claimed to be drug addicts and homosexuals to dodge the draft, and men who deliberately got themselves kicked out to dodge combat.
“That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.”
We didn’t ask every American to serve, dumb ass. That’s what draft boards were about—selective service.
McCain? Wasn’t he in a Vietnam prison singing like a traitorous canary or something? Yeah...is he still alive???
Indeed. The old traitor will probably join Antifa before he checks out.
I really hope McCain just drops dead. I have come to detest that man. And to think I once was voted and even campaign for him. Shame Shame Shame. He is now one of the most inveterate assholes that could ever be imagined
The corrupt Uniparty POS who sold out his buddies in Nam, and sold his country out in the Keating scandal, is gonna die brainless, in agony.
The men on the U.S.S. Forrester wish John McCain had a bone spur
Benedict Arnold was also a war hero before he turned traitor, Senator.
Benedict Arnold and Marshal Petain were war heroes, until they weren’t.
John, did your fuel spill kill a bunch of people on a famous aircraft carrier?
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