McCain and Putin are both monstrous clowns.
Putin more dangerous than funny. McCain more funny than dangerous. Surprisingly I dislike McCain more though. At least Putin is looking out for his own country's interests in Supporting Assad. McCain wants to bomb Syria because defense contractors gave him nearly 180k in bribes.
To me, McSame is the biggest of idiots, who's a$$ was covered for decades by daddy - Admiral McCain. Who crashes a plane after a college football fly-over? Who crashes his plane smuggling home Christmas presents on a training mission? His first two crashes he blamed engine failure. Both times investigations by the USAF showed the engines were still producing power. That makes him a liar. He also shucked and jived the interrogations after his plane started the Forrestal fire. After he got splashed in Vietnam and did 5 years as a POW, stories started swirling that due to his dad's political might he actually was treated as a guest and lived in the lap of luxury during his POW years. He stayed in part of the Hanoi Hilton prison in a group of buildings called Little Vegas, in which each building was named after a Vegas hotel (Golden Nugget, Thunderbird, Stardust, Riviera, etc). I do not know how well he was treated, but some negative press was thrown his way that he was treated like royalty and supplied with hookers, visitation rights, etc. The VC called him "The Crown Prince". Here is a quote from ex CIA spook and author Phil Giraldi (
Philip Giraldi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
McCain’s own tale of his torture and the confession he recorded for the North Vietnamese comes largely from his book Faith of My Fathers, in which he describes his shame at cooperating with the enemy. But some of McCain’s fellow prisoners, who were tortured and did not collaborate, have challenged his narrative, expressing their belief that McCain was not physically abused at all and that he was well treated. Others who were also in the prison camp dispute that claim. But by McCain’s own account he may have begun cooperating with the North Vietnamese within three days of his capture and was fully on board within two weeks, providing specific intelligence on his aircraft carrier, its aircraft, and the support vessels attached to it, information that was later featured in North Vietnamese radio broadcasts. One account that appeared on a wire service entitled “PW Songbird is Pilot Son of Admiral” reported that McCain may have gone beyond an acceptable level of collaboration in assisting the psychological warfare offensives aimed at American servicemen: “The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam.”
Douglas Valentine, in a 2008 article in Counterpunch, describes how “On one occasion, General Vo Nguyen Giap, the top Vietnamese commander and a nationalist celebrity of the time, personally interviewed McCain. His compliance during this command performance was a moment of affirmation for the Vietnamese. His Vietnamese handlers thereafter used him regularly as prop at meetings with foreign delegations.”
It has also been claimed by retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, admittedly without any corroborating evidence apart from what might be contained in inaccessible Pentagon files, that “McCain told his North Vietnamese captors, highly classified information, the most important of which was the package routes, which were routes used to bomb North Vietnam. He gave in detail the altitude they were flying, the direction, if they made a turn… he gave them what primary targets the United States was interested in…the information McCain provided allowed the North Vietnamese to adjust their air-defenses. As result…the US lost sixty percent more aircraft and in 1968 [and] called off the bombing of North Vietnam, because of the information McCain had given to them.”
