What happened to honesty and decency in public life? What happened to the reasonable expectation that a republican candidate would vote for, ally himself with and live into republican principles? What happened to American sovereignty and people assimilating into our culture from foreign lands? Now they want to come here and raise the flag of Mexico over that of the US…or just burn the US flag after they get here, with no documentation. And our “leaders” - like John McCain, support ‘amnesty’ for illegals. What’s worse - McCain has even voted against barring felons from receiving amnesty benefits under the Kennedy/McCain amnesty plan. In addition, he viciously attacks those who disagree with him on ‘amnesty for illegals’, saying “F**k you!” and calling them “Chickensh*t”.
In addition, he promotes the idea of our importing drugs from third world nations like CHINA. Sounds like George Soros, doesn’t it?
Importing foreign drugs is a stupid idea because counterfeit knockoffs won’t do what the real drugs do. We have things like patents. Foreigners have slave labor and no safety standards. This has already been illustrated with lead-painted toys, toothpaste, dog food and other products (from China). Drugs imported from countries like Canada come from places like Pakistan, Bulgaria, Argentina and south africa. and the safey risks should be pretty obvious, and explains why the FDA has opposed importing drugs since at least 1969.
We should remember who the people are who are calling for ‘amnesty for illegals’, and then look back at McCain and think about what the ideas are that he represents. Just because you SAY you’re a republican doesn’t mean you ARE one. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck and talks like a duck, it has to be a duck, right?
Remember the recognition that the Vietnamese communists gave John Kerry in the War Remnants Museum in Saigon? Well…it looks like they’ve done their own special best to do the same thing with John McCain at the site of his crash.
Why? Because he said in interviews soon after the crash- that he’d committed WAR CRIMES, just like John Kerry did during the Winter Soldier “investigation”. And now that his efforts to normalize relations with Vietnam have succeeded, they have that to thank him for, too. Not that he didn’t have anything personally to gain from it - Anheuser Busch profited from that move. It’s no coincidence that McCain and his wife Cindy hold millions of dollars worth of stock in Hensley & Company, the second largest Anheuser-Busch distributor in the nation and that Hensley & Company is owned by Cindy’s father. It is no coincidence that in 1994, pending normalized trade relations with Vietnam, Anheuser-Busch was planning to build a major distillery in Vietnam. Just like John Kerry’s interest in normalizing relations seems to have a family connection. His cousin C. Stewart Forbes is Chief Executive Officer of Colliers International, and Vietnam granted Colliers International, based in Boston, Massachusetts, a contract worth billions designating Colliers International as the exclusive real estate agent representing Vietnam.
McCain comes to Kerry’s defense
By Associated Press
Published August 6, 2004
WASHINGTON - Republican Sen. John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam, called an ad [Swift Boat Veterans for Truth] criticizing John Kerry’s military service “dishonest and dishonorable” . . . “I deplore this kind of politics,” McCain said. “I think the ad is dishonest and dishonorable.”
There is nothing dishonorable about telling the truth - which is another thing he opposes. Which is obvious, when you look at the story that’s been spun about him being a ‘war hero’. This gives him the moral authority over everyone else to take the ACLU’s and ANSWER’s position on waterboarding.
John McCain, like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, is an embarrassment to our country and our military. McCain joins his ideological brethren, the democrats-or should I say socialists and communists-with his pandering to the enemy, and he has a long history of it-going all the way back to when he gave information to the communists so they could shoot down more American pilots. I think it’s part of Soros’ strategy to place a virtual democrat on the Republican side, so there will be absolutely no difference between the presidential candidates come election time. McCain didn’t follow through on becoming an official democrat, but he sure seems to be more of a Clintonian democrat than a republican.
The fact that two on the democrat side have issues like dead bodies, Whitewater and Rezko in their past - McCain has the Keating Five. The dishonesty in these campaigns runs equally across party lines. Obama appears to be a muslim marxist along the lines of Fatah (which we’re funding) - and some of that can be clearly seen in his book entitled “The Dreams of my Father” - the muslim. McCain, wrote “The Faith of my Fathers”. We’ve seen numerous Hillary ‘plants’ in audiences to make political points as proof that fiction trumps reality today, but Hillary’s right when she says they should be highlighting the differences between what democrats stand for and what the republicans stand for. In McCain’s case, there is little difference.
We should be contrasting what McCain stands for in comparison to what republicans SHOULD be standing for.
And the war hero thing is a complete smokescreen for what actually happened. McCain claims he was afforded no special treatment while at the “Hanoi Hilton”. Tim Russert claimed on January 19th - that “McCain spent five years, in a box. Baking in the heat. He can’t raise his arms above this height. Because of the pain.”, which McCain’s campaign seized upon with glee. Yet when he was first interviewed by the North Vietnamese he is shown at a hospital reserved for Vietnamese military and he was seen by Soviet Surgeons. He was drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes while being interviewed. This is a far cry from the way the rest of the POWs were treated.
He was shot down October 26, 1967, and by November 9, 1967 he was giving interviews to foreign correspondents, providing information on his prior command, casualties and tactics, in direct violation of the Code of Conduct. (The U.S. military Code of Conduct is the definitive code specifying the responsibilities of American military personnel while in combat or captivity. Article V of the Code is very specific in ordering U.S. military personnel to avoid answering questions to the utmost of their ability and to make no oral or written statements disloyal to the United States and its allies, or harmful to their cause. Any willful violation of the Code is considered collaborating with the enemy.)
The Communist Vietnamese erected a bust of John McCain beside the lake where he was shot down. His defenders say that this is a tribute to the PAVN gunners that shot him down.
In the interview that he gave on November 9, 1967 to VNA International, he claims when he bailed out and landed in the lake, that locals pulled him out and took him to the hospital. Yet in the U.S. News and World Report - May 14, 1973. McCain is quoted as saying “I think it was on the fourth day (after being shot down) that two guards came in, instead of one. One of them pulled back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee. It was about the size of a football . . . when I saw it, I said to the guard, Ok, get the officer’…an officer came in after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as ‘The Bug’. He was a psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I said, Ok, I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”
While testifying before the Senate Select Committee, the very man McCain claims was responsible for his own torture, his interrogator, “The Bug” appeared. During a break, McCain rose from his seat, walked from the podium to the floor and stood face to face with the man who was responsible for torturing him and countless other Prisoners of War…McCain then grabbed the man and embraced him!
This is the equivalent of Jack Idema hugging Amrullah Saleh.
McCain has been a consistent advocate of lenient treatment of Vietnam.
The War Secrets Senator John McCain Hides-Former POW Fights Public Access to POW/MIA Files
Some McCain watchers searching for answers point to his recently published best-selling autobiography, Faith of My Fathers, half of which is devoted to his years as a prisoner. In the book, he says he felt badly throughout his captivity because he knew he was being treated more leniently than his fellow POWs owing to his propaganda value as the son of Adm. John S. McCain II, who was then the CINCPAC — commander in chief of all U.S. forces in the Pacific region, including Vietnam. (His captors considered him a prize catch and nicknamed him the “Crown Prince.”)
Also in the book, the Arizona Senator repeatedly expresses guilt and disgrace at having broken under torture and given the North Vietnamese a taped confession, broadcast over the camp loudspeakers, saying he was a war criminal who had, among other acts, bombed a school. “I felt faithless and couldn’t control my despair,” he writes. He writes, revealing that he made two half-hearted attempts at suicide. Most tellingly, he said he lived in “dread” that his father would find out. “I still wince,” he says, “when I recall wondering if my father had heard of my disgrace.”
After McCain returned home, he says he told his father about the confession, but “never discussed it at length.” The admiral, McCain says, didn’t indicate he had heard anything about it before.
McCain’s father died in 1981. McCain writes: “I only recently learned that the tape … had been broadcast outside the prison and had come to the attention of my father.”
McCain wasn’t alone — it’s well-known that a sizeable percentage of prisoners of war will break down under torture. In fact, many of his supporters view McCain’s prison travails as evidence of his overall heroism. Fears unpublished details?
But how would McCain’s forced confession alone explain his endless campaign against releasing MIA/POW information?
Some veterans and other McCain watchers have speculated that McCain’s mortification, given his family’s proud military tradition (his grandfather was also an admiral), was so severe that it continues to haunt him and make him fear any opening up of information that could revive previously unpublished details of the era, including his own nagging history.
Another question that defies easy explanation is why there has never been any significant public outcry over the POWs who didn’t come home or about the machinations of public officials like McCain who carefully wove a blanket of secrecy around this issue. It can only be understood in the context of what the Vietnam War did to the American mind.
It’s one thing to hug a communist. It’s another thing to hug the person who tortured you. It’s another thing to give information to the communists that enabled them to kill American pilots.
While a member of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1993) he referred to POW/MIA Family Members and POW/MIA Activists as whiners, vultures and the lunatic fringe.
But it would seem he’s simply describing himself.
The Kerry/McCain Campaign Against Ted Sampley
and the lies of DIA operative Susan Katz Keating
Back in 1972, while stationed at Fort Bragg, I volunteered my off-duty time to a small POW/MIA group (Americans Who Care) which helped Joe McCain when he traveled through North Carolina seeking to raise public awareness about his brother POW John McCain. Joe, like so many other citizens was concerned about Hanoi’s atrocious abuse of U.S. prisoners of war and wanted to ensure that POW McCain would be released when the war was over.
Yet, McCain categorizes me as “one of the most despicable people” he “ever had the misfortune to encounter?” What does that say about his relationship with the Vietnamese prison guards whom he claims brutally tortured him daily?
This whole propaganda thing defies the imagination. And how people can defend him is also confusing.
