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Not only did he block release of the transcripts of his many broadcasts in support of the North Vietnamese, but he stopped cold further efforts to find POW/MIA's.
These are claims from Veterans, not me.
I am lucky enough to KNOW many heros. Most right here in my own neighborhood.
I think what we need here is a definition of what is a Hero to you?
There are some POW's that were not heros.
They went to WAR with a different agenda----
I have studies McCains background and he in no way shows up on my hero meter.
While dropping bombs, nor in his personal life.
You can follow Blind obedience to the Military if you choose.
Does that remind you of another point in History!
Try around 1939-1945.
Again, I didn't make this up.
Go check it out if you really want to judge for yourself.
Link
A brother who was in the trenches, and not privilaged to fly planes above the fray?
Did you have a loved one that was MIA when McCain was fighting against the MIA families who were asking for help?
Did you have a loved one, that wanted all the Hanoi Hilton records released, and McCain fought against it because he doesn't want the records to exposed?
You are VERY POOR TASTE as you point your finger and continually contradict yourself.
This is the type of post I'd put up.
It makes us all look bad.
I disavow your tactics.
Republicans win "at all costs," becuase they have no conscious to worry about.
We are different.
But don't call him a "hero".
The Vietnam Veterans Against McCain group points out something which I think is relevant. There were hundreds of thousands of "grunts" who did maybe 7,000 hours of combat duty in the jungles of Vietnam getting shot at every day. They didn't get a bunch of medals for doing it, and nobody except their families call them "heroes". But John McCain received approximately 1.5 medals of valor for every hour he spent in combat - all of which were dropping bombs from an airplane - he got shot at once. And he is a "war hero" - because??????
I had an uncle who was captured by the Germans during WW2 in 1941 and spent the rest of the war in Europe in a POW camp. He and the other men of lower ranks were treated horribly. He didn't give the Germans any information in exchange for special treatment. Yet nobody called him a "hero" except his loved ones.
Call McCain a veteran. Give credit to him for signing up for active duty, whatever his motives. He didn't have to follow family tradition, and I imagine his father would have gotten him out of serving in Vietnam if he really didn't want to go.
But just give credit where credit is due. No more, no less. He's no "war hero", he's just a guy who went to war, like millions of other Americans past and present.
Leave McCain's service alone. Regardless of the differing accounts of what he did or did not say and do in the Hanoi Hilton, unless you were there you can't know for sure. Additionally, after 5 years of torture I think most people would not be themselves and would say just about anything to get out.
By attacking McCain's military record, you look like a Swiftboat Scumbag. I would like to see an election won without resorting to Karl Rove's disingenuous tactics.
McCain is doing enough damage to himself by promoting offshore drilling, faux actions like the gas tax holiday, and offering more tax cuts to the rich. All you have to do is repeat McCain's own words to show how out of touch, unfit to govern, and irrelevant he is.