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Lets hear your excuse for this.
Mine?
Lets hear your excuse for this.
What about bringing him home and get his side of the story? And if it's warranted court martial him.
Was John McCain a traitor?
You are correct he didn't desert his post, but there were people who accused him of collaborating with the North Vietnamese.
Obviously referring to Prisoners of war.
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It doesn't obviously refer to prisononers of war to me, though. To me, it applies to every soldier in trouble. Injured on the battlefield? We won't leave you, buddy. We're here. Helicopter shot down behind enemy lines? We won't leave you, buddy. We're coming.
In fact, as I think about it, it hardly applies to prisoners of war.
If the only way to get them back is to negotiate and make deals with terrorist organizations (either directly or indirectly) then, were I POTUS, then I am afraid that they would regrettably be left behind...though a physical extraction would never be off of the table.
I believe that you NEVER make deals with terrorists...either stall for time until you can kill the terrorists/free the hostages through force or ignore them.
But never make deals.
Otherwise you just encourage other terrorists to capture others.
You don't have one, do you?Mine?
Are you kidding? John McCain was offered a chance to go home by the North Vietnamese for propaganda reasons. His father was CINCPAC. He told the North Vietnamese he would leave after all of those POW's who were caught before left, in other words when his turn came. James Stockdale who was our VP nominee spoke very highly of John McCain during their stints as POW's.
This is what disgusts me about partisan politics. The willingness to drag good men's name through the mud just for political gain. What ever one may feel about McCain's politics of today or his service in the senate has nothing to do with his military service. If this is what this thread is about, have at as I am through with it before even getting started. This type of politics makes me sick.
I don't know if it's true, but I am hearing the Taliban threatened to kill him.
You don't have one, do you?
Are you kidding? John McCain was offered a chance to go home by the North Vietnamese for propaganda reasons. His father was CINCPAC. He told the North Vietnamese he would leave after all of those POW's who were caught before left, in other words when his turn came. James Stockdale who was our VP nominee spoke very highly of John McCain during their stints as POW's.
This is what disgusts me about partisan politics. The willingness to drag good men's name through the mud just for political gain. What ever one may feel about McCain's politics of today or his service in the senate has nothing to do with his military service. If this is what this thread is about, have at as I am through with it before even getting started. This type of politics makes me sick.
The more I hear about his case the more I think you would have to be a real dickhead to charge him.I think he should be brought home, and I also think if the military wants to charge him with desertion they have the right to do so. He just needs to have his day in court if they are going to charge him, not a whole populace, and media lynch mob after the guy.
The more I hear about his case the more I think you would have to be a real dickhead to charge him.
Obviously referring to Prisoners of war.
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The more I hear about his case the more I think you would have to be a real dickhead to charge him.
I respect McCain, but I also despise the man and what he has become. Respect and hate are not mutually exclusive. I will happily drag his name through the mud for what he is now, politics has always been and always will be a what have you done for me, or to me, now venture, and anyone who gets into it will get muddy. Its the nature of the beast. To be blunt politics these days are tame. It aint anywhere close to what it was. It doesn't lessen my respect for what McCain has done as a military man. I respect him as a military man. I doubt I have the intestinal fortitude to deal with what he did for as long. I don't know because I have never been there. But the man earned my respect as a man in that regard with his deeds then. When the **** hits the fan I would have no problem being in the same foxhole with him. I believe that he holds America in high esteem. That said you wouldn't catch me at a party with him though. As a politician, he hasn't earned anything but enmity from me. So it gives me great joy to kick the politician McCain around. In politics its no quarter asked and no quarter given. Its just business. Though everyone these days takes it personally it seems.
While the kid may have been AWOL or be a deserter, the US government isn't exactly squeaky clean on how we have handled the "terrorists" we have been holding for years and years with no due process.
While the kid may have been AWOL or be a deserter, the US government isn't exactly squeaky clean on how we have handled the "terrorists" we have been holding for years and years with no due process.
We are no better then Iran or China.