How the Clintons will Destroy John McCain

To The Point News ^ | Thursday, 31 January 2008 | Dr. Jack Wheeler

[ThePythonicCow]

HOW THE CLINTONS WILL DESTROY JOHN MCCAIN

	Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler
Thursday, 31 January 2008
The number of fellow Senators who think John McCain is psychologically unstable is large.  Some will admit it publicly, like Thad Cochran who says, "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine." Others relate times when McCain screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room, like Dick Shelby, Rick Santorum, or Jim Inhofe.  "The man is unhinged," one Senator told me.  "He is frighteningly unfit to be Commander-in-Chief." That John McCain is clinically nuts is scary enough.  What worries a small group of GOP Senators and Congressmen even more is a deep and dark skeletal secret in McCain's glorified past to which they are privy, and which the Clintons will use to blackmail him. They have been having discussions with a Russian whom we'll call "T" for Translator.  T's father was the Soviet military intelligence officer who ran the "Hanoi Hilton" prison holding captured Americans during the Vietnam War.  One of those prisoners was John McCain. The GRU -- Glavnoje Razvedyvatel'noje Upravlenije or Main Intelligence Directorate of the Soviet (now Russian) Armed Forces - operated the entire North Vietnamese prison system holding American prisoners of war.  GRU officers, all of whom were Russians, oversaw the interrogation of every American POW. The interrogations themselves were conducted by Vietnamese who spoke some English.  After each interrogation session, which could often include torturing the prisoners at the direction of the GRU officers, the Vietnamese interrogator would write a report of the session - in Vietnamese. These reports had to be translated into Russian.  T, a bright teenager living in the GRU compound in Hanoi, had become fluent in Vietnamese, and ended up translating many of the reports and interrogators' notes. John McCain, flying his A-4 Skyhawk, was shot down over Hanoi on October 26, 1967.  Badly injured from the ejection, he was beaten and abused by his captors.  In July, 1968, his father, US Navy Admiral J. S. McCain, was made CINCPAC, Commander-in-Chief, Pacific Command, commander of all US military forces in the Vietnam theatre.  Upon learning this, the Vietnamese offered - according to McCain - to release him.  McCain claims he refused, because he demanded all American POWs captured before him be released as well.  He thus remained a prisoner when he could have gone home, and was subjected to constant brutal beatings and torture for years:  that is the source of the "war-hero" saga making McCain a greater war-hero than any other American POW. Yet the offer of release would had to have been approved by the GRU overseers of the North Vietnamese - and T does not recall any such offer being made.  T admits, however, that this took place before McCain was transferred to Hoa Loa prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton" by the POWs.  T had only direct knowledge of what happened at Hoa Loa, and not the other prisons, where T's father was in charge. McCain was kept at the Hanoi Hilton from December 1969 until his release, along with all the remaining POWs, in March of 1973.  During this time, T translated all the Vietnamese interrogators' notes and reports regarding John McCain. According to T, they reveal that McCain had made an "accommodation" with his captors, and in exchange, T's father saw that he was provided with an apartment in Hanoi and the services of two prostitutes.  Upon returning to his prison cell, he would say he had been held in solitary confinement.  That may be why so many of his fellow prisoners said later they saw so little of him at Hoa Loa. The notes and reports written in Vietnamese were sent to Moscow, where T was a now a college student, for T's translation into Russian, then placed into GRU archives.  That's where they stayed until 1991.  Late that year, as the Soviet Union was collapsing, the CIA and the GRU made a deal for a document swap.  All of what it involved, T doesn't know.  What T's father, by now retired but still with substantial contacts within the GRU, did learn (and thus T learned) was that the swap included all of T's translations. In other words, the CIA has in its possession the notes and reports of John McCain's interrogators at the Hanoi Hilton, in both the original Vietnamese and translated Russian, showing collaboration with his Communist captors. Allegations of this nature have been made over the years, many by Vietnam veterans.  There is an even an organization, Vietnam Veterans Against McCain.  But they are based on suspicions and circumstantial claims.  There has never been any hard direct evidence.    What T says the CIA has is such evidence.  Its release would destroy McCain.  The threat of its release could force McCain to take a fall, blow the election and lose on purpose.  And just who do you suppose would know what the CIA has and work with them to release it? Someone who has been a CIA asset since he was recruited by London station chief Cord Meyer while a student at Oxford in 1968? (Back in the 90s years after he retired,  if Cord drank a little too much Scotch, he would laugh derisively at those conspiratorialists who accused Bill Clinton of being connected with the KGB. "They all darkly point to Bill's participation in anti-war peace conferences in Stockholm and Oslo, and his trip to Leningrad, Moscow, and Prague while he was at Oxford. ‘Who could have paid for this?', they ask. ‘It had to be the KGB!' they claim." Cord would shake his head. "What rot - we paid for it. We recruited Bill the first week he was at Oxford. Bill's been an asset of The Three Bad Words ever since."  Cord passed on in 2001.) The small group of Senators and Congressmen who have been briefed by T have been unable to confirm with the CIA any details of its document swap with the GRU beyond an admission that such a swap "may have happened."  They are very nervous about pursuing the matter any further. The Clintons are not nervous.  They are utterly ruthless, and have buddies at Langley all too happy to help them. It has been noted many times here in To The Point that while most folks think the CIA is a right-wing outfit, it is not. The CIA has been dominated by left-wing hyper-liberals for years. The CIA is a left-wing, liberal outfit, and its main job for some time now is not attacking America's enemies but conservatives in general and George W. Bush in particular.  The story is best told by friend, Ken Timmerman in his new book Shadow Warriors. When the time is right, the Clintons will see to the leaking of the GRU archives on McCain to the media.  Bet on it, just as you can bet they'll follow it up with media disclosures of the lady lobbyists in Washington having adulterous affairs with McCain.  (There are at least three of them; I know the name of one but I'm not going to put it in writing.) Maybe McCain will try to fight back by confirming Hillary's well-known bisexuality and her lesbian affair with her beautiful assistant, Huma Abedin.  Google "Hillary" and "Huma Abedin" and you'll get almost 6,000 hits.  Turns out Huma is a Moslem who grew up in Saudi Arabia and is strongly suspected of working for Saudi intelligence. Or maybe he'll capitulate to Clinton blackmail.  You never can tell what a psychologically unstable guy will do. And that last point is why - be prepared for this, folks - I would not in any circumstances vote for John McCain, not if either Hillary or Obama were the alternative.  Evil is safer than crazy.  Leftie amateur inexperience is safer than crazy.  So I agree with Ann Coulter who says: "I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility." How in the world can the Republican Party get saddled with a nutcase whack-job who knows nothing about economics, is so anti-capitalist he uses "profit" as a term of derision, has never run a business or had any job outside of government, will raise taxes, is so stupid that he believes "stopping global warming" is worth destroying the American economy, won't drill ANWR, won't appoint strict constructionist justices, won't protect marriage, will give amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens, is beloved by the New York Times, and lives in a delusionary world of vanity and rage? Rush is right.  A McCain presidency will be the destruction of the Republican Party.  It needs to be rebuilt, not wiped out with the field clear for the fascists of the left to consolidate power and eliminate freedom. And maybe the only way to rebuild it is in dedicated impassioned opposition to a Clinton White House.  That should be the subject of Ann Coulter's next book.  I've already got the title for her.  Her last book was If Democrats Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. Ann needs to now write this book:  If Republicans Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans. [A Yogi Berra note.  There still is a chance for Romney, the last remaining hope.  If he can win enough delegates on Super Tuesday next week, combined with Huckabee winning Georgia and other southern states, it may still be possible for McCain to end up with only a plurality of delegates, not a majority, at the end of primary season.  An open convention is still possible, during which Republicans could come to their senses.  It's not over until it's over.]

[Ben Ficklin]

"Wheeler is no left wing whacko"

Correct, he is a right wing whacko.

[ME-262]

screamed four-letter obscenities right in their faces in the Senate cloak room

I'd love to do that too! It is time our politicians knew what we think of them.

[ThePythonicCow]

perhaps ;).

[ThePythonicCow]

Good point.

[Arthur McGowan]

This is hugh!!!

[dennisw]

btttt

[Kakaze]

This kind of stuff is incredibly hard to prove.

I have a lot of reasons to dislike McCain and a lot of disdain for him.

I have for years thought him unstable, not so much because of the rumors in the senate but just from watching and listening to him.

I made my judgement on his character though years ago as I watched a discovery channel special on the U.S.S. Forrestal.

Whether or not it was McCains fault that the missle went off doesn't matter. What mattered to me was seeing footage of barefoot boys in boxer shorts trying to save the ship. McCain still in a nomex flight suit went to sickbay got checked out and instead of responding to fight for the ship began to shake te hands of the wounded.

A man in a fire retardant suit and flight boots stood shaking hands as the ship burned. He even comments ( as a addendum to the film ) on how important he felt it was to "Thank the boys'

That set my image of him and I can't ever support him, theres no character. This was before the p.o.w. years.

I think you can still buy the video but I've not seen it rebroadcast in years.

[ThePythonicCow]

Yes, hard to prove, and yes, he's ... er eh ... special.

Given the times we live in, and who the choices might be, I don't know if that's disqualifying or not.

I find it really easy to remind myself that it's got to be anybody but Hillary.

So ... Romney for now (even though I know he sets of some "too slick for his own good" alarms in some folks) and likely McCain in the general if Romney goes down.

And it will be a while before I remove that Fred '08 bumper sticker from my car ;).

[BellStar]

Swift Boat 2! Only it’s a Pubie Vet! Gads!

[Ben Ficklin]

Wheeler is also a mis-info queen. While he mentions these confrontations, he doesn't mention the context.

Shelby voted with the dems against John Tower.

The Inhofe and Santorum confrontation was over whether or not the English Language provisions would be added to the body of the 2006 immigration reform bill. The draft legislation had already been circulated twice thru the Senate and the Senate, as a body, had rejected the English language provisions. Subsequently, Inhofe tried to add the English language provisions as an amendment to the bill. It was rejected by the Senate..

[Apple Blossom]

I have told so many people that the Clinton’s have tons on info on McCain. He’s left a trail for them for about 25 years now...it’s not like there’s nothing to find.

I know that on the surface he puts up a pretty good front, I had no idea that rage (and in turn “crazy”) was so close to that surface.

That’s not what scares me the most. I’ve said this on FR before, what concerns me is his history with melanoma. Why isn’t that being mentioned? I know personally a man who had it, was treated, thought it was gone, went to the ER one day with vomitting, and was dead in a week. We DON’T need that to happen to our President while he’s in office.

[GiovannaNicoletta]

bookmark

[cgbg]

I don't think this should be posted here.

I believe this story, and believe this is _exactly_ what _should_ be posted here. It is not our job to kiss the rear ends of the "Republican leadership". The history of FR has one clear lesson. We lead--then reluctantly (and sometimes slowly) _they_ follow.

I had an interesting conversation with one of my wife's nieces last night. She teaches at a major midwestern university and was talking about her students and how different they were from previous generations. One of the shockers was how gullible and respectful of authority they were.

My comment--"that's un-american!".

So I will say to you what I will say from this point forward to any young people I may encounter:

If you want to follow leaders then go stand in line with the sheep.

If you to _be_ a leader come to FR and learn how to lead.

Lesson #1 is my tagline.

:-)

[normy]

don’t like John McCain’s position on the issues. However, I react very negatively to anyone who would disparage his patriotism. I don’t think the public will tolerate it either. I do not think it will reflect well on anyone who trys this tactic. McCain is revered as a heroe by many of the Viet Nam generation. I do not, however, believe the same about Senator Kerry.

Any attempt by anyone to downplay McCains experience in the Hilton would backfire in a massive way. The only chance Hillary has is to get John to blow up in public. If the Clintons use the tactics they have used on Obama on McCain they will lose in a landslide.

Many Republicans don't like McCain because he has stabbed them in the back but the truth is he is a moderate to Conservative Republican. He will get many crossover votes. He will get many male Democrats and probably many black Democrats who will be spurned by the eventual Hillary nomination. McCain is the kind of guy who can take New York and Connecticut and maybe even California in the general. I just hope he doesn't take Huck as his VP. My guess is Rudy.

[ThePythonicCow]

melanoma

McCains VP choice will particularly important.

[gakrak]

Sorry, but I don’t buy any of it. He is a lefty RINO and I will have nothing to do with him. He disgusts me and I won’t vote for him ever. Amen

[stocksthatgoup]

Ann needs to now write this book: If Republicans Had Any Brains, They'd Be Republicans.

Best part of the article

[ThePythonicCow]

Any attempt by anyone to downplay McCains experience in the Hilton would backfire in a massive way.

Any direct attempt would backfire, probably so.

Everyone, on either side of the aisle, begins every McCain story with a genuine show of respect for his war experience. And his physical injuries remind one of that every time you see him. A frontal attack on that would be folly.

But I'll wager a pretty penny that the Clintons can find someway to exploit any contradictions or unfortunate angles on that POW experience (even if they have to fabricate them ;).

The Clintons are the Jack Bauer of American Politics, in the sense that they can turn anything into a lethal weapon. (Apologies to Jack for that comparison.)

[RVN Airplane Driver]

Thanks for the post. McCains actions in regard to the North Vietnamese have not made any sense and I have suspected that they held the “goods” on him. Among those of us who were involved nothing is as low as someone who aids and abets the enemy...at the expense of your fellow Americans. Sadly I suspect even more now that McCain may have been one of those.

[ThePythonicCow]

Good point ... McCain's handling of the POW/MIA investigations caused outrage in the families of those missing.

Something was not right there.