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I bet you didn’t know that John McCain was a collaborator. Funny how this doesn’t become public knowledge until after he’s on the verge of being the GOP nominee for president.
Well, if it worked against John Kerry …
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Kerry started out crowing about his Vietnam service, practically building his campaign on his whopping 4 months during which he fragged himself. He further asked for it by lying about the Christmas ’68 Cambodia thing.
McCain’s service was much more extensive even if you don’t include his time at the Hilton. He does however, like Kerry, hawk it a bit much.
When I was at Annapolis, we were shown the films made by the captured pilots. Yes, they sang about how they had bombed and strafed nothing but peaceful targets (hospitals, etc.) and how horrible the United States is.
The moral of showing us those films: we were told “no matter how tough you think that you are, if you are tortured enough, you WILL break, period. So if you are captured, hold on as long as you can, and -if-, no when, you break, accept it an move on.
So, if there is something to this video, it might be McCain’s stance on the release of records.
As far as his “collaborating” with the North Vietnamese: I don’t doubt that he did; *any* of us would have.
The point is that he had the guts to go and fight.
I sure as heck am not going to pass judgment on this issue.
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They should have left Bob Dornan out. His involvement always cripples the veracity of any indictment. I can’t wait to see the commercial outlining McCain’s complicity in the government cover-up of Bigfoot.
Time to get out the marshmallows. The GOP is setting itself on fire again.
B1 Bob may be right on a lot of things but I have to agree he’s not somebody you bring along to make your point.