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Your read of the facts is pretty sad. No doubt because you are a McCain supporter. Please don't let your support blind you to the facts. The fact is John McCain "attacked" the 200 plus Swift Boat Vets for Truth and ipsofacto attacked all of us who supported them (SBVT). And the fact is that he did stand up for John Kerry's "heroic" Viet Nam service record!

I could really care less who you vote for in November. That is, once again, entirely your right and your privilage and none of my business.

Conversely, whom I support and/or vote for is none of yours.

If the facts concerning John McCain bother you, don't charge the messenger of "Bull Shit". Accept them as what did happen and be a man and say, it doesn't matter to you that you will still support and vote for John McCain.

Again, I really could care less.

But I am not going to sit idly by and let you get away with calling me a liar!

Greg Adams
Brownsville, TX

You are spot on. As a Vietnam vet and former naval officer, I was offended by McCain calling the SBVFT "dishonest and dishonorable." They were a true non-partisan 527. They saved Bush's bacon. I contributed to the SBVFT three times and attended their rally in DC. They are true patriots and deserve our respect and admiration for the courage they showed. Kerry has gone after them with a number of lawsuits.

Kerry contacted McCain about being his VP in 2004 and McCain considered it. 'Nuff said.

When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A. Senator covered up evidence of P.O.W.'s left behind. McCain worked with Kerry on this. From the linked article:

"A number of staffers became increasingly upset about Kerry's close relationship with the Department of Defense, which was supposed to be under examination. (Dick Cheney was then defense secretary.) It had become clear that Kerry, Zwenig, and others close to the chairman, such as Senator John McCain of Arizona, a dominant committee member, had gotten cozy with the officials and agencies supposedly being probed for obscuring P.O.W. information over the years. Committee hearings, for example, were being orchestrated to suit the examinees, who were receiving lists of potential questions in advance. Another internal memo from the period, by a staffer who requested anonymity, said: "Speaking for the other investigators, I can say we are sick and tired of this investigation being controlled by those we are supposedly investigating."

Mr. Adams, let me throw something in here to add to the mix. Your response to mylife illustrates a point. You instantly swung back hard to defend your honor, which you obviously consider important. That's a characteristic of servicemen, then and now.

Now look at McCain. For years he had been dogged by a group of lunatics questioning his honor. These were people of marginal intellect and dubious sanity. These people would stoop to anything to smear his character and his service. They were indeed dishonorable and dishonest.

Don't believe me? Let's take McCain out of the mix and substitute Colonel Bud Day, a man of unquestionable honor and integrity and courage. Do you believe that Colonel Day was a liar, a coward, an opportunist who would sell his MOH for personal or political gain? Read this. Politicizing the Congressional Medal of Honor These are the same people attacking John McCain.

Is it any wonder that McCain would defend a fellow Senator and Vietnam veteran (no matter how undistinguished his service) against charges from the likes of these guys?

The problem was that the Swift Vets were not the likes of these guys. It was the absolutely Sterling character of the Vets, both individually and as a group that finally won the day. People like Ted Sampley made the job a lot tougher.

With McCain's experience, I don't blame him for being doubtful of another group which looked a lot like those he had delt with before.