McCain wasn't part of the solution.....
Posted on 05/26/2006 3:23:30 PM PDT by RWR8189
You took the words out of my mouth, at least regarding those who belittle Sen. McCain's service.
And everyone else needs to start realizing that simply because someone does something at one point in one's life, that doesn't give them a perpetual mulligan politically!
McCain's a hero! Fine! But he's a self-servant now and as such he's open to the same criticism that everyone else is. In the meantime, we've heard this all before. It's long past, he's fine, and he's got millions coming at the hands of taxpayers when he retires. I think that's more than enough to get his a$$ doing what's right for the nation for a change instead of once again having to "be cut slack" due to his socialist views and votes that are near treasonous!
Not more respect, but he doesn't, nor has he earned it, disrespect for his service. As I answered earlier.
"I would never vote for McCain, but McCain served with the highest honors and he has NEVER stood before the people of America and called our brave U.S. troops killers, as Kerry and Murtha have done."
McCain used his daddy, a Senator, to get prefferential treatment during his imprisonment.
He is a coward, and a liar.
Maybe I'm the only retard in the world that does not think that getting shot down because you suck as a pilot and surviving torture ranks as heroic in the same vein as what an Audey Murphy, George Patton or George Washington did in their heroics
That's a good question. I wonder if people know that Ted Chapaquidic Fats Kennedy was a service man. Served in Germany during the Korean war.
No, that is incorrect. Mclame's father was an admiral. I don't know if this got him prefferential treatment by the vc but it did get him prefferential treatment in flight school and kept him from being washed out. Which when you look back on things wasn't really a favor because it put him in a plane that got shot down and he got to be tortured.
Happy Memorial Day to you too. Thanks for the reply. I got off on the wrong foot and for that I apologize!
But some who did "benefit" thusly do and have.
One wonders if this had been the solidly conservative Congressman Sam Johnson, who spent a year and half longer in the Hanoi Hilton than Senator McCain, that former Senator (and SEAL) Kerrey would have defended him as vigorously, and if this writer would have written this article? Somehow I doubt it, especially in the case of the writer. Bob Kerrey probably would have defended Sam Johnson's right to speak, although it's unlikely he would have supported Johnson being invited to speak.
He may not have won the war himself, but the US, allied and South Vietnamese militaries did. Only to have it lost in the conference rooms of Paris and most especially in the Democratic Cloakrooms of Congress.
True, he only called them torturers, and by implication war criminals. The torture in question involved panties on the prisoners heads, humiliation, etc, but by implication, he made it one with the sort of real torture he and the other POW's of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong suffered. It was nothing at all like that, and, IMHO, was no torture at all.
While Kerrey's politics are left of Lenin, he is certainly an American hero. He is not running for any office and should not be abused by left wing scum. On the other hand, Mc Pain is a patently, certified political fraud and like his buddy, John Kerry, is wide open for criticism from both left and right.
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Good pilots get shot down, and being a sucky pilot doesn't necessarily mean one isn't doing the best one can. Given a chance, I'd probably have been a sucky pilot. They were smart enough not to give me such a chance.
But by all reports, McCain was a sucky pilot, whose father was an Admiral (CINCPAC in fact, a submariner), as had his grandfather been in WW-II (Commander Aircraft South Pacific Forces).
Better check your facts. His father was the four star admiral in charge of all US Forces (not just Navy) in the Pacific. CincPac was his title. He was never a Senator. His father before him had also been an Admiral, in charge of all air forces in the South Pacific theater in WW-II.
Only John S. McCain III dishonored the family name by becoming a politician.
You are correct, his father was an admiral, and he told the vc that as soon as he was caught.
He did get preferential treatment.
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