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McCain: Don't Probe Kerry's Atrocities
NewsMax.com ^
| 5/11/04
| Carl Limbacher and the newsmax.com staff
Posted on 05/11/2004 10:11:15 AM PDT by kattracks
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who says the Bush administration needs to come clean about the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal as quickly as possible, said Monday that he didn't think it was a good idea to investigate Sen. John Kerry's admission that he committed war crimes in Vietnam.
"I just hate to keep going back and revisiting the Vietnam War over and over again," McCain told radio host Sean Hannity, when asked if Kerry and his supporters weren't being hypocritical in calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal over the Iraq prison flap.
"The very people who are so up in arms who are calling for Don Rumsfeld's head are supporting a guy who admits to burning down villages of innocent civilians," Hannity pressed. "So, I mean, is there an inconsistency there?"
McCain responded meekly, "I'm sure that there is."
After listening to audio from a 1971 interview where Kerry admitted he violated the Geneva Convention in Vietnam, McCain said he didn't think the issue was worth investigating given the strife it would cause.
"There's still so many of our veterans who feel so emotional about this issue that it digs up all of this controversy," he explained.
The Arizona Republican was far less timid about questions on whether Secretary Rumsfeld knew that Iraqi detainees were being abused at the Abu Ghraib prison.
Asked if he didn't agree that Rumsfeld had been a strong defense secretary, McCain equivocated.
"I agree with all of that but there is one strong caveat, OK," he told Hannity.
"And that is let's find out what the chain of command was, who gave the orders, who, if anybody, instructed these guards, what was their relationship with the interrogators, what was the story with the private contractors - all of those things have to be cleared up."
TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: atrocities; kerry; mccain; militaryrecord; vietnam; warcrimes
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To: adam_az
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who says the Bush administration needs to come clean about the Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal as quickly as possible, said Monday that he didn't think it was a good idea to investigate Sen. John Kerry's admission that he committed war crimes in Vietnam.
"I just hate to keep going back and revisiting the Vietnam War over and over again," McCain told radio host Sean Hannity, when asked if Kerry and his supporters weren't being hypocritical in calling for Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's dismissal over the Iraq prison flap.
"The very people who are so up in arms who are calling for Don Rumsfeld's head are supporting a guy who admits to burning down villages of innocent civilians," Hannity pressed. "So, I mean, is there an inconsistency there?"
McCain responded meekly, "I'm sure that there is."
After listening to audio from a 1971 interview where Kerry admitted he violated the Geneva Convention in Vietnam, McCain said he didn't think the issue was worth investigating given the strife it would cause.
McAinal is ready to lynch Rummy and GW for something they didn't do, order nor condone.
However, as usual, he wants not judgement of his buddy al Querry re his admitted war crimes.
al Querry should resign from the senate and as a candidate as an slef avowed war crimes criminal.
McAinal should resign for allowing the self advowed war criminal al Querry to remain in the senate all of these years.
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:32:25 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(America can't afford a 9/10 Jihad Johnny F'onda al Querry after 9/11.)
To: Grampa Dave
You want everybody to resign.
I give up!
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:35:19 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
To: montag813
Our leftist media is thowing mud that I believe may end-up on Kerry. Sure they are aiming at Bush and Rumsfield, but once the average soccer mom hears what Kerry admitted he did in Vietnam were will the mud land. It is probably to early for the Republican's to play this card. There is still time for the Democrats to dump Kerry.
To: FR_addict
War crimes as President...Even if we ASSUME that effingkerry was LYING about the WAR CRIMES it should be investigated. I believe also that his attendance and complicity involved with the PLOT to assassinate pro-Vietnam War Senators, SHOULD be investigated. Either of these events IF TRUE, MUST disqualify him from holding the Office of President.
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:36:37 AM PDT
by
PISANO
(Our troops...... will NOT tire...will NOT falter.....and WILL NOT FAIL!!!)
To: kinsman redeemer
Opps... After I saw that in print, I realized: "Hey, I look French!"
Sock-ray-bluh!
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:36:52 AM PDT
by
kinsman redeemer
(the real enemy seeks to devour what is good)
To: kinsman redeemer
Only those two faced Rat Pack Congress critters who knew about this mess and ignored until it became politically expedient.
If they didn't know about and their staff did, they should resign as they asked Rummy to resign for something he didn't know about. Their staff is a lot smaller that all of the service men and women in Iraq and who have served there.
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:38:18 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(America can't afford a 9/10 Jihad Johnny F'onda al Querry after 9/11.)
To: kattracks
Why doesn't McCain just switch to the Dem Party already? What a RINO!!!
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:42:49 AM PDT
by
kevao
To: kinsman redeemer; Grampa Dave
You want everybody to resign.Ya know, I kinda like that idea.
Have it go back to a citizen congress instead of a 'professional politician' (I spit on the ground) congress the way it was supposed to be.
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:43:17 AM PDT
by
Just another Joe
(Warning: FReeping can be addictive and helpful to your mental health)
To: kattracks
Kerry is qualified to be the Jamie Gorelick of any prison scandal investigations.
To: kattracks
This Freeper is so sick of seeing John McCain on every damn talk show...
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:47:56 AM PDT
by
smiley
To: kattracks
And goodness gracious, everyone knows that nobody has any passions to stir up over Iraq. No siree bob. Can't be stirring up those passions, now, can we?
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posted on
05/11/2004 10:51:30 AM PDT
by
JasonC
To: kattracks
If McCain wants us to stop, then we should continue.
Remember the Vietnam Vets march against Kerry on September 12.
These Vets have the right to have their names cleared after Kerry smeared them.
They have the right to have facts about the war come out now that we know the media was and always has been biased against the military (Cronkite).
They have the right to speak up now and correct the wrong that was done to them.
McCain, who sat there in Hanoi Hilton and had to endure Kerry's anti-military remarks, of all people should understand that.
To: kattracks
I am sick of hearing about, and from, McCain. I'm sorry he went through what he did in Vietnam, but he should shut his pie-hole and get off of the stage. With Republicans like him, who needs Dims?
To: Paul Atreides
I'd like to hear McCain tell Kerry to shut up.
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posted on
05/11/2004 11:01:26 AM PDT
by
Carolinamom
(No man or woman is poor if he/she can laugh.)
To: kattracks
And maybe someone should investigate why John McCain came out of the Hanoi Hilton 17 pounds heavier than he went in when our other POWs came home looking like skeletons. McCain is a close friend of John Kerry admitedly and in a lot of ways exactly like him. Remember that he left his severly injured wife who worked night and day for the MIA/POW returns to marry a Busch millionairess and he embraced his former Vietnamese guard when diplomatic relations were reestablished. John McCain cannot be trusted.
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posted on
05/11/2004 11:06:02 AM PDT
by
GreyWolf
(My $.02)
To: kattracks
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., ... said Monday that he didn't think it was a good idea to investigate Sen. John Kerry's admission that he committed war crimes in Vietnam. Probably because he knows Kerry was talking out of his ass in '71. Why waste money and time on a hoax? Besides, it cuts into McLame's TV time.
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posted on
05/11/2004 11:07:38 AM PDT
by
hattend
(Only Libs can find mandatory death in the Constitution (see abortion and T. Schiavo))
To: kattracks
Is it true that John McCain has an illegitmate black child out there ?
To: Paul Atreides
What makes McCain a hero? He screwed up and lost a multi-million dollar airplane, wound up in jail and ran for public on his record.
I lost my lunch money one time, wound up in dention and got my a$$ whipped when I got home. Should I run for a Senate seat???
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posted on
05/11/2004 11:08:58 AM PDT
by
River_Wrangler
(Gun powder for me and a beer for my horse!)
To: kattracks
This guy just makes me sick.
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posted on
05/11/2004 11:09:47 AM PDT
by
jmaroneps37
( Kerry's not "one of us": catholicagainstkerry.com. needs your help.)
To: hattend
What he is really worried aout is that the story about his work with Kerry on the Viet Nam POW issue might get investigated. Seems McCain and Kerry threw out a report that there were still missing POW's in Nam when the US signed the trade deal with the Vietnamese. Kerry threatened one guy 'You will be sorry you were ever born if this gets out' or something to that effect.
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