Posted on 05/24/2005 3:30:13 PM PDT by Stellar Dendrite
Does Senator McCain deserve our support?
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Do the 86 GELDINGS in the Senate have nothing to say? ...or do?
John Judas McWeasel and his brothers James Judas Jeffords, Benedict Arnold, and Judas Iscariot! "Under extraordinary circumstances," the ultimate weasel words of forked tongued and arrogant politicians who have no regard for the Constitution. There is only ONE circumstance under which I could vote for McWeasel, and that is if the opposition is Hitlary herself! Even then, I just might weasel out of that and vote for the Libertarian candidate.
"He aint even a good RINO. If there was ever a good RINO." Your right. He paid his dues as a POW. The Senator is the Manchurian Canidate. Not from the new movie, the one from the fifties. I respect him though I'm afraid of him.
LOL, no....have disliked the guy immensely since the 2000 primaries. I can't really say how I feel NOW on here, for fear of getting banned.
That in no way qualifies him to be a U.S. Senator! Not unless being a passenger on a 747 qualifies you to fly it!
The only way McCain could be president is if he runs as a Democrat.
Leni
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Like you suggested, the 14 "86'ed" the other 86.
"Like you suggested, the 14 "86'ed" the other 86."
Please stop characterizing it in this manner. "Minority Rights" were preserved, plain and simple! After all, we should respect that. Right? Riiiight.
Your post raises a question for me.
Who is an RR (real Republican).
Series suggestions, please.
"That in no way qualifies him to be a U.S. Senator!" Relax, I agree with you fully. As a Navy pilot and a POW he served well. Understand this, it's what the North Vietnamese put in his mind that scares me. He may look like a responsible citizen though what is programed into his mind worries me.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll start it off.
Coburn of Oklahoma.
Do you mean "Republican legislators who stand for smaller government, less taxes, a strong national defense and family values"?
I don't think there is any.
Now that everyone still feels sorry for him being a POW, which I do too, we need to get him to explain this.
http://www.namvets.com/Reading/john_mccain_is_no_war_hero.htm
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For years, I was confused by his actions with respect to this issue. He would oppose any POW/MIA related piece of legislation, including the recent Missing Personnel Act, and the bill I sponsored through Fred Upton, the POW/MIA Rescue Act, which would have granted political asylum to any southeast Asian national who brought a living American POW to freedom.
Why would anyone oppose such a bill ... particularly a former POW?
He disagreed with the findings of the 1990 Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which concluded that our government had indeed abandoned some of our men when the war ended. '
Then, in 1991, he was appointed to serve on the long-awaited Senate Select Committee, which was created to investigate the entire issue. Chairman John Kerry wanted to appoint him as co-chairman, but this was greeted by a national uproar from the American Legion, and virtually every national veteran's group in existence who were already suspicious of his previous actions.
U.S. Sen, Bob Smith from New Hampshire was chosen instead, a minor victory at the time by POW activists, .
This particular Senate Committee was single-handedly undermined (in my opinion) by the actions of John McCain. During the course of their several month-long investigation, they heard unbelievable testimony from hundreds of people. No less than four former Secretaries of Defense testified that men were left behind. National Security analysts testified that they tracked the movements of our men long after the war ended. Radio transcripts of American POWs being moved in Laos were recorded in the early 1980s:
There were satellite photos of pilot distress signals taken as recently as 1992, complete with pilot name and authenticator code numbers. Former Soviet Commanders testified that they debriefed our men in the Soviet Union, and even Boris Yeltsin admitted American POWs had been transferred there.
No less than four committee investigators provided the Senators of their estimates ranging from a low of 150 to as many as 600 men who they believed were still alive and in captivity. This doesn't even include the testimony they heard behind closed doors that supposedly endangered our national security.
The conclusions of this committee was that "no credible evidence was provided to support the possibility that Americans were still alive and in captivity," This, despite documents from Soviet Archives that showed that the Vietnamese were holding more than 1,200 American POWs, and released less than 600, John McCain signed his name on this incredibly flawed report.
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