Posted on 11/22/2008 7:56:00 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Some interesting background on the first time McCain was shot down by a socialist.
From Russian news agency Novosti
MOSCOW, November 17 - An ex-Soviet officer who claims to have shot down U.S. Senator John McCain's plane over Vietnam in 1967 has said he is happy the ex-navy pilot lost his bid for the White House, a Russian paper said on Monday.
McCain was shot down over Hanoi while on a bombing mission on October 26, 1967, and taken captive by the North Vietnamese. He spent five and a half years in a POW camp, and claims that he was tortured. His time in captivity left him unable to raise his hands above his head.
Although McCain's former Vietnamese prison guards have said that they have forgiven him for his bombing raids, and that they even rooted for him in the U.S. presidential elections, 70-year-old Yury Trushyekin has no such warm feelings.
"It's good that he didn't become president. Even in the camp they said how he really hated Russians, as he knew it was our missile that shot him down," Trushyekin told the MK v Pitere paper. "Russian-American relations would have suffered, that's for sure."
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“We were preparing to leave when the sirens sounded again,” he said. “Two American F-4 Phantoms flew in. We had two missiles out of six left. The Vietnamese fired first. Their rocket missed, it fell into the jungle. One plane went round the hill, the other came over the bridge. We fired at this one.”
That’s a nice war story except that McCain flew an A-4 skyraider not an F-4 Phantom
I hear the Soviets screaming Now,Me to,Me To.
I always thought that he was taken out by an SA2 SAM.
That tends to happen when you're drunk on Russian vodka.
They nuked his fridge.
McCain's plane is still in better shape than Russia is.
If McCain had some Cahones he should respond with a retort:
“Why don’t you fly out to Arizona and I’ll be glad to repay you the favor.”
but insulting the russian socialists is probably something we’ll refrain from doing now we have something close to that as president.
Hey, what’s wrong with Russian Vodka?
Personally, I prefer Polish potato vodka, the land of my
ancestors.
“I always thought that he was taken out by an SA2 SAM.”
At different times, North Viet Nam had instructors in the North who were Russian, Chinese and Korean. All three countries provided pilots/instructors and all three provided operators/instructors for SAM sites.
Polish girls are hot.
Wonder if they found target identification as tough as ol' Yury here does?
I thought that he was taken out by the lying Leftwing media...
Oh sorry.
I got my “commies comrade in arms” history events mixed up....
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