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1 posted on 12/17/2004 7:51:54 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
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McCain is a Jerk - BUMP


2 posted on 12/17/2004 7:54:50 AM PST by Kennesaw
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Heard it. Sean kept saying that McCain loves the troops & he (Sean) wouldn't say anything against him in the matter as he was a POW, etc.


3 posted on 12/17/2004 7:56:12 AM PST by pookie18 (Clinton Happens!)
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McCain prefers conversing with members of the Vietnameses military.


4 posted on 12/17/2004 7:56:58 AM PST by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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An Iraq war veteran who was part of the original invasion force went public yesterday with allegations that Sen. John McCain snubbed the troops when he visited the front lines during the early days of the occupation

Doesn't surprise me one bit. McCain is into political life for his own aggrandizement. I really think any "public service" benefit that comes from his actions are a byproduct of his real goal of puffing himself up.

For example, the recent hubbub about Rummy: if McCain really had concerns, he'd voice them privately to the administration. But instead, like everything else, he has to rag on and on in front of the press.

7 posted on 12/17/2004 7:59:39 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Proabably did not have anyone filming the event. If there are no camera's McCain just acts like he really is and that is a Bush hating jerk.


8 posted on 12/17/2004 8:00:26 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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"The Iraq GI said it's much different when Rumsfeld visits Iraq."

That's a part of Rumsfelds job to listen and support the troops.


9 posted on 12/17/2004 8:02:46 AM PST by stopem
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To: Tumbleweed_Connection; Mo1; Howlin; Peach; BeforeISleep; kimmie7; 4integrity; BigSkyFreeper; ...

"....And we need Congress to oversee boxing!!!!......Ahhhhh...."

My hate for McCain grows larger everyday.

10 posted on 12/17/2004 8:04:38 AM PST by OXENinFLA
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I have never trusted McCain since he came home from prison in North Viet-nam.


12 posted on 12/17/2004 8:07:50 AM PST by alchemist54
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McCain is Kerry’s “brother in arms”, he’s a Republican in name only !


13 posted on 12/17/2004 8:08:28 AM PST by lunarbicep (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice - Thomas Paine)
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And he didn't ask a single one of us anything.

Because he's a Senator, they know EVERYTHING, just ask them, they all think THEY should be President, especially McPain.

15 posted on 12/17/2004 8:09:29 AM PST by Mister Baredog (PLEASE be sure you have a flag up on your FReeper homepage.!!!)
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There is no sympathetic feelings in my heart for McCain:
If he had notbeen an Admiral's Son, he would not have made ot through Flight School.
FROM
http://www.usvetdsp.com/story22.htm
McCain also thinks President Clinton, who dodged the draft rather than serve in Vietnam, is the perfect presidential role model. He recently told the press that Clinton "is the best politician I have ever seen."

McCain, however, does not think so highly of the POW/MIA families and activists who openly challenge the U.S. government's POW/MIA policy, many of whom walked the halls of Congress during the Vietnam War years demanding America's prisoners of war, including POW McCain, not be forgotten.

McCain, as a member of the 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, took the lead in demanding a U.S. Justice Department investigation of the POW/MIA activists and their organizations. He accused the activists of fraud because in some of their fund-raising literature the activists claimed the U.S. government knowingly left U.S. POWs behind after the Vietnam War and that some remain alive today.

McCain openly attacked the activists telling the press, "The people who have done these things are not zealots in a good cause. They are the most craven, most cynical and most despicable human beings to ever run a scam." The Justice Department did investigate the POW/MIA activists and their organizations and found no reason to charge any POW/MIA activist.

McCain's use of the words craven, despicable and scam are mighty powerful and poisonous words from a man who admittedly traded "military information" to his communist captors in exchange for better medical treatment--or who divorced the wife that stood by him while he was a POW, after she became crippled in an accident.

Those words are hypocritical from a man whose younger and richer wife (she's an heir to Hensley & Co., the second largest Anheuser-Busch beer distributor in the United States) got caught after stealing drugs for two years from a charitable organization of which she was president.


19 posted on 12/17/2004 8:13:23 AM PST by Ramonan (Honor does not go out of style.)
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Every time I see this guy:

>I think of this guy:


21 posted on 12/17/2004 8:20:23 AM PST by raybbr
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I'm sure McCain would have met with the troops, if there was media coverage.

John McKeating (R-Media)

24 posted on 12/17/2004 8:23:53 AM PST by NeoCaveman (There is no dufu but DUFU and PJ Comix is it's author)
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Similar to Hillary C's fast in trip last year. At least she bothered to eat in the same tent as some of the troops.

That's more than Kerry and Edwards even bothered to do before the election. Did either of them ever go to Iraq or Afghanistan?

Most of the politicians only do these trips for headlines anyway.

When, too, was the last time Trent Lott visited Iraq or Afghanistan.

These politicians sure don't mind running their mouths and running for re-election. Too bad they run from doing anything worthwhile.
26 posted on 12/17/2004 8:30:24 AM PST by TomGuy (America: Best friend or worst enemy. Choose wisely.)
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WELLLL, THANKS.

THIS CINCHES IT FOR ME.

I suspected--more than suspected--was pretty sure from watching him during the election that he had been co-opted by the puppet masters. Whether philosophically; money or thread--I suspect power hunger did it--he has been placed firmly under the control of the globalist government puppet masters.

He seems hell-bent on gaining more power and to blazes with the details. He's probably one of their point men on the center-right end of things.

Wellllllllllllllll, another not-so-closeted traitor identified. Be informed and decide accordingly! Don't trust him with a light-year long pole.

This sort of incident shows the REAL PERSON better than a lot of other noise and especially better than the MSM noise.

Sad to see someone from his background take this route.


29 posted on 12/17/2004 8:47:00 AM PST by Quix (5having a form of godliness but denying its power. I TIM 3:5)
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Bump


36 posted on 12/17/2004 8:56:18 AM PST by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)
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8 months to build up the military - when it was torn down for 8 years?!?


39 posted on 12/17/2004 9:35:40 AM PST by Pi man
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Hum, since McCain has never commanded an army or led men into battle, I'm guessin his ideas on how the Iraq war should be fought is something he picked up from the North Vietnamese while a prisoner. McCain is damaged goods, a certifiable loon, incapable of loyalty and a threat to the country.


41 posted on 12/17/2004 10:41:37 AM PST by Darlin' ("I will not forget this wound to my country." President George W Bush, 20 Sept 2001)
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McCain, and many other's in Congress, are trying to use Rumsfeld as a scapegoat right now.

The Armor issue is an example.

It is Congress who sets up how the bid process for govt. contracts are awarded....and when they are awarded.

So if people want to gripe about Armor....then its CONGRESS that needs to answer some questions.

I doubt, however, that we will ever see investigative committee hearings on the accountability of Congress.


42 posted on 12/17/2004 10:45:57 AM PST by ArmyBratproud (Ashcroft and Evans served us well....Can't Thank them enough)
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I just read this over a Newsmax.
Glad you posted it.

Of all people to snub the troops....
His attack on Rumsfeld, his snubbing of our troops, coupled with his concern for steroids in sports ...
What is he thinking?

Yuck...


43 posted on 12/17/2004 11:00:51 AM PST by Dashing Dasher (Because I fly, I envy no (wo)man on earth. - Anon)
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