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DAVID HACKWORTH: Is McCain a military hero?
Kitsap Sun ^ | Jan 30th, 2000 | DAVID HACKWORTH

Posted on 09/01/2018 4:36:21 PM PDT by Ceebass

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To: Ceebass
Interesting, and important to keep in mind in the grand analysis of Mister McCain.

That said, the author of the posted piece, David Hackworth, died in 2005.

Much has happened, much to be thoughtfully analyzed, since 2005

21 posted on 09/01/2018 5:33:00 PM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in-never, never,never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. Winston Churchill)
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To: Ceebass

Hack is always a good read.


22 posted on 09/01/2018 5:34:14 PM PDT by W. (Boom!)
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To: outofsalt
McCain was against torture because he knows it works.

Yet he didn't want us to get information from our enemies to save our military members or citizens lives.

23 posted on 09/01/2018 5:35:25 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: Ceebass

I am no fan of McCain. But if he signed a bogus confession to avoid further torture, I have no problem with that. It’s not a Rambo movie out there. Nonetheless, he was also not that much of a hero either.


24 posted on 09/01/2018 5:37:29 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: Ceebass

mccain was a Vietnam communist collaborator. He was a blatant traitor to the United States Americans that fought with valor and honor.


25 posted on 09/01/2018 5:45:43 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: Ceebass

mccain was a Vietnam communist collaborator. He was a blatant traitor to the United States Americans that fought with valor and honor.


26 posted on 09/01/2018 5:45:48 PM PDT by raiderboy (Trump promised “shut down the government” in September; if no wall!!)
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To: Ceebass

https://oathkeepers.org/2016/08/breaking-news-john-mccains-1969-tokyo-rose-propaganda-recording-released/


27 posted on 09/01/2018 5:50:44 PM PDT by Founding Father (The Pedophile moHAMmudd [PBUH---Pigblood be upon him]; Charles Martel for President)
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To: Ceebass

McCain is confirmed, a traitor in violation of the UCMJ and federal statutes covering treason:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3683280/posts?page=2067#2067


28 posted on 09/01/2018 6:00:43 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Ceebass

Yes.

McCain served his country and we should honor him for that.

He has passed away.

America remembers him and it is time to move on.

RIP, Sen. McCain.


29 posted on 09/01/2018 6:10:50 PM PDT by GuavaCheesePuff (I want to thank the Good Lord for making me a Yankee-Old Yankee Stadium (1923-2008))
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To: Ceebass

Ate a few too many bugs while at the Hanoi Hilton has always been my assumption.....


30 posted on 09/01/2018 6:12:56 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Ceebass

Did McCain ever act honorably? We have seen his character time and time again, that tells me all I need to know.


31 posted on 09/01/2018 6:13:37 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: fhayek

> “But if he signed a bogus confession to avoid further torture, I have no problem with that”

The UCMJ requires a different course. McCain violated the UCMJ. Other POWs were beaten worse and did not break.

A true hero would die before signing a false confession.

But the real wrong that McCain committed was that he allowed the tape of his confession to be buried for decades while he played to the lie by the corporate media that he was a ‘hero’.

McCain wanted to boost his image as a ‘hero’ when in fact the real heroes lay dying and rotting in the jungles.

McCain was hated because he was an ‘Admiral’s Boy’ that got special attention and special favors, and he thought himself a prince looking down his nose at common folk. He was a phony and people around him could see right through him.


32 posted on 09/01/2018 6:14:03 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: Ceebass

Did he just do bombing missions or did he ever actually shoot down enemy aircraft.?
Fair question.....right?
Just never heard.


33 posted on 09/01/2018 6:29:54 PM PDT by wardamneagle
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To: Ceebass

Wasn’t there a story about him being offered freedom, but he refused it so as to stay with the other POWs for years? Is there anything to that story?


34 posted on 09/01/2018 6:34:13 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: wardamneagle

What a stupid question.
Have you ever worn a uniform?


35 posted on 09/01/2018 6:47:09 PM PDT by oldbill
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To: Ceebass

McCain is no “war hero” - and what kind of brainless a-hole compares McCain to Audie Murphy?

F*** John McCain.
I hope he is rotting in hell.
F*** him, and F*** his entire family!

And while I’m at it - F*** George W. Bush too.


36 posted on 09/01/2018 6:50:14 PM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

A coward can never rest. McShame proved his cowardice for the last time when he made his funeral arrangements.


37 posted on 09/01/2018 7:01:22 PM PDT by BatGuano
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To: wardamneagle

He was.an A-4 driver. Light.attack bomb delivery.


38 posted on 09/01/2018 7:03:20 PM PDT by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: Dawgreg
I miss Hackworth........;(

Me too.
39 posted on 09/01/2018 7:03:48 PM PDT by Colinsky
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To: GuavaCheesePuff

I agree let’s move on, but the sob still isn’t in the ground. Bury him already


40 posted on 09/01/2018 7:07:22 PM PDT by Figment
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