https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entr...6a6e4b0958c4682d1e8?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000313 John McCain Slams Wealthy Draft Dodgers In Apparent Swipe At Trump “If we’re going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.” Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) appeared to heap more criticism on President Donald Trump during an interview on Sunday, saying it was “wrong” for high-income Americans to dodge the draft during the Vietnam War. “One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest income level of America and the highest income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur,” McCain said during a segment on the draft that aired on C-SPAN 3 on Sunday. “That is wrong. That is wrong. If we’re going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve.” While the senator’s comments didn’t directly reference Trump, the president is widely known to have received five deferments from the draft during the Vietnam War, four for education and one for bone spurs in his heels. The New York Times obtained the president’s Selective Service records last August, and during an interview at the time Trump said the spurs had been “temporary” and “minor” and that over time, they “healed up.” “They were spurs,” he told the outlet, although he noted that they were “enough of a problem.” He continued: “You know, it was difficult from the long-term walking standpoint.” McCain served in Vietnam and was a prisoner of war for more than five years after his aircraft was shot down, during which he was tortured and held in solitary confinement. Trump lambasted the senator during his presidential campaign last year, saying McCain was “not a war hero.” “I like people that weren’t captured,” he said. McCain, who was diagnosed with brain cancer in July, has amped up his criticism against the White House and members of his own party in recent months. Last week, the senator used an acceptance speech for an award honoring his 60-year career in public service to slam what he called “half-baked, spurious nationalism” that had arisen in America following last year’s presidential election. “We live in a land made of ideals, not ‘blood and soil,’” McCain said during his acceptance of the prestigious Liberty Medal, referencing the Nazi slogan chanted at recent right-wing rallies. “We are the custodians of those ideals at home and their champion abroad. We have done great good in the world. ... We will not thrive in a world where our leadership and ideals are absent. We wouldn’t deserve to.”
So...you're asking whether anyone's surprised by anything that comes out of McCain's mouth? Seems to me that if you ask the Kennedy Question of McCain and Trump, Trump is winning and McCain is still bitter over losing to Barry waaaaaay back.
its said you all will call him a hero... when if you spend anytime listening to his and realizing how wrong it is... you may accept it... but this was aiding the enemy. its the opposite of what a hero does... period. there are soldiers all over internet saying that what he did was wrong. As I have said... I may have cracked too... but I would not go around holding myself out as hero. https://rightedition.com/2017/02/18/songbird-mccain-evidence-words-fellow-veterans-captors/ ... EXCERPT: “But I can confirm to you that we never tortured him. We never tortured any prisoners.” Mr Duyet reminisces instead about how he often summoned the future US presidential candidate to his private office for informal chats….So is Mr Duyet implying that that Senator McCain lied about his treatment at the Hanoi Hilton? “He did not tell the truth,” he says. “But I can somehow sympathise with him. He lies to American voters in order to get their support for his presidential election.” Vietnam POW Activists Called McCain ‘Songbird’ and ‘Manchurian Candidate’ EXCERPT: from 1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA’s: “When two U.S. Army enlisted men were captured by the Viet Cong in 1963, they were plunged into an ordeal that would prove to be a relentless trial of body and spirit by torture. Once they were finally freed, however, their trials began all over again, when their statements critical of the U. S. Vietnam policy landed them in a military court facing a capital offense for violating the military Code of Conduct by “aiding the enemy.” But, if your name is John McCain and your father and grandfather were famous admirals, violating the Code of Conduct by “aiding the enemy” translates into fodder for a political career, book deals, and adulation bordering on sainthood. Even though news reports of McCain collaborating with the enemy continued from the time he was captured in 1967 through 1970, the Navy never considered prosecution as an option. Instead, Pentagon pencil pushers chose a political spin that lifted McCain, the former POW turned U.S. Senator, up to a glorified pedestal where he sprouted a halo and wings and became America’s “POW-hero” and today a presidential candidate. No such luck for the two lowly “grunts.” SANTOLI: But on the Senate side, we had one person standing in the way of getting in positions that would have been very tough on government bureaucrats who didn’t tell the truth. And that one person was Sen. John McCain. Cpl. BOB DUMAS, U.S. Army (Ret.): He didn’t want nobody to check his background because a lot of the POWs that was in the camps said he was a collaborator of the enemy. He gave the enemy the information they wanted. Dr. JAMES LUCIER, former U.S. Senate Chief of Staff: But We do know that when he was there [in the Vietnamese prison], he cooperated with the communist news services in giving interviews there, ah, not flattering to the United States. USRY: Information shows that he made over 32 tapes of propaganda for the Vietnamese government. Certainly, you do what you need to do to stay alive. Nobody would fault anybody for that. But there comes a point in time when enough is enough. REP: DORNAN: They made those transcriptions, and in the transcriptions, I heard a POW who heard them comin’ into his cell and said, “Oh, my God, is that Admiral McCain’s son? Is that the admiral’s son? Is that Johnny — telling us that our principal targets are schools, orphanages, hospitals, temples, churches?” That was Jane Fonda’s line. Where are those transcriptions? Believe me — they’re in the archives of the museum, the bragging military phony museum in Hanoi. McCain could not have wanted those [to] turn up in the middle of a presidential race. He knows that. I know that, and a few other people know that, and that’s why he went against Bob Dole’s legislation. DUMAS: And he didn’t want nobody looking into his background in that camp, what went on in that camp. That stuff is still classified so nobody can see it. And he just had it classified forever, so nobody’ll ever look at it. more at link
Of course, it gets confusing because your ilk considers Chelsea Manning to be a hero too. McCain is a hero to you if he criticizes Trump. Otherwise you have nothing but contempt for the right wing white guy trash in the military and their standing up for America. George Washington included.
"McCain retired from the Navy on April 1, 1981,as a captain.He was designated as disabled and awarded a disability pension. Upon leaving the military, he moved to Arizona. His numerous military decorations and awards include the Silver Star Medal, two Legion of Merits, Distinguished Flying Cross, three Bronze Star Medals, two Purple Heart Medals, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and Prisoner of War Medal."
Yeah, let's side with the enemy whose head is on the chopping block and believe what he has to say so he won't undergo trial over the POW's held there. So, so deplorable.
Who really gives a shit about John McCain anymore? The man may have once served his country with honor, but since then has been sending troops to die in pointless wars. Fuck him.
Did you ever consider how many medals he would have gotten if he WASN'T the son and grandson of high-ranking military officials?