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Schwarzkopf backs McCain

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (UPI) — Retired Army Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, coalition forces commander in the 1991 Gulf War, Wednesday endorsed GOP presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.

“Sen. John McCain has served our country with honor in war and in peace,” the man known as “Stormin’ Norman” said in a statement. “He has demonstrated the type of courageous leadership our country sorely needs at this time. For that reason, he has my complete support.”

Meanwhile, just days after he dropped out of the race to become Republican nominee, Rep. Hunter Duncan, R-Calif., threw his support to former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, The Hill reported Wednesday.

Hunter’s presidential campaign, built around his positions on national security and immigration issues, never took off. He dropped out after the Nevada caucus Saturday.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/126555

I think Tiger Eye is Ted Sampley
Ted hates John McCain. It’s that simple. What does Ted do about it? check this crap out....
Ted says john McCain is a KGB spy:
Sampley Said McCain Was Brainwashed by the Vietnamese & a KGB Spy
Sampley calls McCain the Manchurian Candidate, maintaining that the Vietnamese brainwashed McCain, then sent him home to do their bidding—which, to Sampley’s way of thinking, explains why McCain was instrumental in the nation’s normalization of relations with Vietnam. [Phoenix New Times (Arizona); 3/25/99]

Anyone here think John McCain is or was a spy for the KGB? Has to be one the most ridicules things I’ve heard in a while!!
Well that’s not all of it!! Check this out...
Sampley Says McCain is Actually a KGB Spy
Ted Sampley, a veteran from North Carolina who runs a newsletter, accuses Mr McCain of betraying his country while a prisoner and being a KGB spy. He also made a more bizarre accusation: In the movie The Manchurian Candidate Laurence Harvey portrayed a former PoW from the Korean War whose brainwashing enabled his enemies to be able to manipulate his actions. To trigger him all they had to do was have him play solitaire, with the queen of diamonds being the trigger that made him theirs, body and soul. Mr Sampley went on to ask the senator: “Have the Vietnamese flipped you a queen of diamonds?” [The Independent, 2/17/00]

Is this a joke? What kind of NutBag is this Ted guy?
Well.......
Sampley Started a Fight With McCain Staffer
In December came an ugly exchange between activist Ted Sampley and an aide to Sen. John McCain, Arizona Republican. Mr. Sampley says he went to the senator’s Capitol Hill office Dec. 18 to drop off copies of an article he had written. It described Mr. McCain as a brainwashed agent of the Soviet KGB spy agency. McCain staff members already had seen the article. Mark Salter, the senator’s legislative assistant for foreign affairs, ordered Mr. Sampley out of the office. Although versions of the story vary somewhat, both Mr. Salter and Mr. Sampley agree that they went out in the hall together. Each says the other threw the first sucker punch, but both say there was a scuffle, and Mr. Salter got the worst of it. [Washington Times, 2/8/93]

I guess ole Ted is a badass...
But he paid a price....
Sampley Ordered to Serve Jail Time for McCain Altercation
[Sampley] spent two days in jail and was placed on probation for 180 days. He also was slapped with a restraining order requiring that he stay away from Mr. McCain and his staff. [Washington Times, 2/8/93]

Are you a vet? WHAT THE HELL does his flying record have to do with establishing him as a "communist" as you are so anxious to loosely and recklessly characterize him?

For that matter, are you such a Useful Idiot that you buy into this Manchurian Candidate crap? As for this hatchetjob PDF file, how can any sane veteran compare a grunt's time on the ground to air time in combat? Do you have any idea what those pilots faced -- the complexity of the threats, including the missile defenses, the ground fire, the low level terrain they had to avoid at 500 knots, the weather, the complexity of their equipment, the complexity of navigation, the complexity of the onboard weapons, etc. etc.???

But the part that INFURIATES me more than anything is the lie about his "collaboration with the enemy". When a man reaches his breaking point, a point every man has, and every soldier knows he has, it's not a dishonorable COLLABORATION. You resist to the BEST OF YOUR ABILITY, and then give them as little as you can to SURVIVE. Hell, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed only lasted seconds with a relatively mild technique called "waterboarding"; how long could you last as they dropped you several feet onto a concrete floor from up high with your arms tied behind your back?

Considering he was there for FIVE AND A HALF YEARS, and in incredible pain and duress with no end in sight, I think he did pretty damned well. When he was two years into his captivity, the Commies (the real ones, not just a flowery pejorative) offered his release -- but knowing it would be a propaganda victory for them, and seen as favoritism given his family heritage, he refused unless they would agree to releasing all the prisoners, knowing they wouldn't and it would mean severe repercussions for him (and it did, for four more years). Now THAT is courage.

This smear attempt by that nutcase Jerry Kiley is disgraceful on so many levels -- it's beneath contempt. It's as though they lump him in with that infamously corrupt "hero" John F'n Kerry, who was derailed by the Swiftboat Vets for the Truth (an organization I contributed to).