John McCain was a POW.
McCain was a POW and John Kerry wore a uniform.
Those two things do not make them qualified to set policy for the rest of us.
Following the logic of the POW defense put forth by the media for McCain we should have a rehabilitated crackhead as the Director of the DEA etc etc
McCain is wrong. I was an Army officer and Geneva conventions do not apply to terrorist.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1661789/posts
They shall furthermore be bound by the Convention in relation to the said Power, if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof.
Although one of the Powers in conflict may not be a party to the present Convention, the Powers who are parties thereto shall remain bound by it in their mutual relations. They shall furthermore be bound by the Convention in relation to the said Power, if the latter accepts and applies the provisions thereof
6) Inhabitants of a non-occupied territory, who on the approach of the enemy spontaneously take up arms to resist the invading forces, without having had time to form themselves into regular armed units, provided they carry arms openly and respect the laws and customs of war.
3 examples of where the Geneva Convention is willingly ignored by the 4 Senator Stooges with their flatulent PR spin to lie about why they are so desperate to impose their emotional whimsy on the Administration.
That "a former JAG" is this grotesquely ignorant of what Common Article 3 ACTUALLY says indicates it is merely another LIE told by the RINO clown posse to come up with YET another excuse to backstab the Administration.
Fire these 4 Stooges
Who spilled his guts, when the Cong found him.....without being tortured.
John McCain was a POW.
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That was because he was such a poor pilot. How many other planes did he destroy?
When he became a POW he also became a traitor when he gave the cong all the information they wanted. That is the reason he received preferential treatment in the POW camp, and became the only POW I know of who actually gained weight as a POW.
My intentions have nothing to do with any feelings I may harbor toward John McCain personally. I have none. My intentions in all of this have to do with him professionally.
They have to do with his treatment of [North Vietnamese Army Colonel] Bui Tin, who I consider nothing more than a "sent agent." They have to do with his simplistic attitude toward the issue of MIAs and his utterly vile behavior toward those who disagree with him, including POW/MIA family members...
...I don't care if he has a temper unless he decides to vent it on an aging MIA mother, and he did just that. I can't forgive that and no one else should.
MIAs? I wrote then-Congressman McCain while still in the Army, from Korea, about the MIAs. Senator Denton wrote to me encouraging me to trust the Government. I didn't like the answer, but I got an answer from Senator Denton. My letter to McCain was answered by DIA. I wrote to him as one of the few POWs the Communists returned along with himself, and he checked nothing. So much for John's concern about MIAs.
A friend of mine was with Admiral McCain when he came to meet his son upon his return to U.S. control. When he reminded Senator McCain of this, John responded with a tirade and claimed that he received no "special treatment" and even denied his father was there. I'm sorry, but that was just a lie.
There was deep concern among the intelligence community about John McCain. His interviews and statements from Hanoi and pictures of him in an actual hospital gave great worries to many, including Bill Colby himself. His hero image was not nearly as solid in 1973 as it is now. That may have been wrong, but it was a fact.
I don't know why John did many of the things he did in captivity and since, but I do know that none of this is off limits, when it concerns someone running for President.
During a break in the hearing, Sen. McCain moved to where Col. Bui Tin was seated and warmly embraced him as if he were a long lost brother.
And on the pow issue; The POW/MIA families point out that they worked hard during the Vietnam War to secure POW McCain's freedom when he was being held by the communists and the families want to know why he is now betraying them today in their efforts to get answers about their missing loved ones.
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.
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."
From POW-MIA Network
It was McCain, who during the SSC Hearings, was adamant in promoting the 'they're all dead' myth of American POWs and MIAs. And it was McCain who was instrumental in supporting Clinton's lifting of the trade embargo and ultimate normalization with Vietnam.
McCain's latest credit is the McCain Amendment which severly impacted the Missing Service Personnel Act of 1995/1996. Who's side is this guy on anyway?
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McCain uses his POW history for his own benefit; he's doing so again, to get attention and to appeal to all who love to see him oppose Pres. Bush.
POW just went POOF on this one.
And your point is? In fact so are many of the homeless drunks, drug addicts in homeless shelters in many major cites.
Really? You're kidding, right?