[Jabba the Nutt]

Why would McCain so publicly embrace North Vietnamese government types? Why would McCain help bury the POW's in the US Senate?

And it bugs me that McCain is called a "War Hero". In American history, war heros used to be guys who killed a lot of the enemy or performed with extraordinary valor on the battlefield. Assume all the noise about McCain's time as POW is BS and McCain told the unvarnished truth. McCain would not be a war hero. You could call him a valiant POW, who suffered tremendously, but that's not being a war hero.

[dixiechick2000]

"Why would McCain so publicly embrace North Vietnamese government types? Why would McCain help bury the POW's in the US Senate?"

Business interests!

Look for yourself.

In this respect, I consider him traitorous

Lordy...I'm amazed at folks who don't look in that direction first.

[Mamzelle]

re: And it bugs me that McCain is called a "War Hero". In American history, war heros used to be guys who killed a lot of the enemy or performed with extraordinary valor on the battlefield. Assume all the noise about McCain's time as POW is BS and McCain told the unvarnished truth. McCain would not be a war hero. You could call him a valiant POW, who suffered tremendously, but that's not being a war hero.)))

You're right. He's more closely a casualty of war, a victim, than a hero.

Mostly he functions as a figleaf for the chickenhawks.