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John McCain Launches Attack On Trump As He Savages Wealthy Young Men Who Avoided The Vietnam Draft '
The Daily Mail ^ | 10/23/17 | Abigail Miller

Posted on 10/23/2017 6:02:02 AM PDT by Enlightened1


Senator John McCain delivered a thinly veiled attack of President Trump's lack of military service on Sunday evening. 

McCain, who has been criticized about his war hero status by Trump, seemed to retaliate while speaking about the Vietnam War in an interview aired on C-Span Sunday night.

The 81-year-old from Arizona spoke about how wealthy Americans were able to avoid being drafted into service during the battle - in which he spent five years as a prisoner of war - by having a doctor say they had a bone spur. 

If that sounds familiar to anyone, that's because it is the excuse that President Trump used in one of his five deferments during Vietnam. The other four were because he was still a college student.

'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 they had a bone spur,' McCain said in the interview. 

'That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.'


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: attacks; mccain; mccaininterview; mccaintrump; trashtrump; trump; vietnam
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To: rigelkentaurus

You made a very accurate comment.


81 posted on 10/23/2017 10:22:17 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: Enlightened1

The man is on his last leg. He’ll be dead soon. This hatred is what he wants to marinade in through has final days?

He is either not a Christian or he’s one who missed the point.


82 posted on 10/23/2017 9:56:00 PM PDT by SaraJohnson ( Whites must sue for racism. It's pay day.)
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To: Enlightened1

McCain cheated on his first wife, and then dumped her because she had the nerve to get hurt in a car crash.


83 posted on 10/23/2017 10:14:05 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (Islamic Immigration is Treason)
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