Trump Awakens Kerry’s Vietnam Anger With Slam On McCain

The Daily Beast ^ | July 19, 2015 | Mike Barnicle

[2ndDivisionVet]

The Iran nuclear deal that could prevent a war must have evoked another deal to end a war almost 50 years ago in the Secretary of State.

John Kerry was angry.

“Listen to this. Listen to what Trump just said about John McCain,” Kerry was saying over the phone. “ ‘He’s not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.’ ”

“That’s unbelievable,” Kerry said. “That’s beyond outrageous.”

“John and I have some serious differences on a lot of things but he is nothing other than a hero and a good man. Where was Trump when John got shot down over North Vietnam? In school? At a party? Where was he?”

For many months now, years even, Kerry has been point man in Barack Obama’s attempt to restrict Iran’s plan to develop a nuclear bomb. He has been a walking high wire act, traveling a region that is nothing less than a geographical bonfire filled with the debris of failed nations, countries that have collapsed into chaos and terror largely because of the contrived plans of men like Dick Cheney who dreamed of the day when Saddam Hussein could be toppled. The conservative ideologues got their wish while the United States got a larger, longer war and the Middle East became an even bigger source of horror and death....

[TBP]

http://conservativebyte.com/2015/07/fact-checking-the-trump-mccain-fight/

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/

http://www.nationalwriterssyndicate.com/content/view/349/2/hanoi-john-mccain-the-manchurian-candidate/

http://polidics.com/ethics/fellow-pows-say-john-mccain-was-a-coward-and-a-traitor-in-viet-nam.html

http://www.vvof.org/mccain_hides.htm

http://www.onecitizenspeaking.com/2013/06/did-north-viet-nam-collaborator-john-mccain-re-write-history-again.html

http://antiwar.com/blog/2008/09/27/mccain-betrayed-viet-pows/

http://takimag.com/article/judas_mccain_guy_somerset/print#axzz3gOCRtr7x

[rrrod]

Trump has even made Kerry look good....

[CASchack]

I should have checked the author first. Mike Barnicle is a well-known liberal rumpswab who was forced out at the Boston Globe for plagiarism. He has kissed the rears of Massachusetts liberal pols for as long as I can remember.

[Amagi]

John Kerry: three months, three scratches, the three-Purple-Heart discharge, and he’s out of Nam, but not before he had movies filmed of himself playing soldier.