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busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 04:11 AM Jun 2014

John McCain should keep his fucking mouth shut concerning our President’s Action concerning

the prisoner swap...

The article below especially highlights Senator McCains attempt to prevent any and all searches for Vietnam Prisoners during the late 80s...Family members of the missing were simply furious..

Why would an ex-prisoner of the North Vietnamese be so antagonistic to programs that would search for lost American Soldiers... Me thinks that John might have been afraid of the results... You know...His prepared statements to the press while in prison ... They certainly were not something that he could have taken pride in... Read for yourself...

http://original.antiwar.com/giraldi/2013/05/29/john-mccain-war-hero-or-something-less/

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John McCain should keep his fucking mouth shut concerning our President’s Action concerning (Original Post) busterbrown Jun 2014 OP
A slight correction to the title of this thread is necessary: TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #1
Feinstein needs to... butterfly77 Jun 2014 #2
+1 Jamaal510 Jun 2014 #5
No matter the situation the CONS bring up.. butterfly77 Jun 2014 #6
McCain and other GOPers were eager for this prisoner's release Proud Liberal Dem Jun 2014 #3
Hey John your cone of silence called. Blue Owl Jun 2014 #4
Should we have sent troops back to Vietnam to search? former9thward Jun 2014 #7
No... I am upset that he has continually talked out of 2 sides his fucking mouth for busterbrown Jun 2014 #8
No. He needs to find the moral courage to praise it ThoughtCriminal Jun 2014 #9
Rachel Maddow aired footage of McCain seeming to agree with prisoner swap. CBHagman Jun 2014 #10

TexasTowelie

(112,118 posts)
1. A slight correction to the title of this thread is necessary:
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 04:46 AM
Jun 2014

John McCain should keep his fucking mouth shut.

 

butterfly77

(17,609 posts)
6. No matter the situation the CONS bring up..
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 04:23 PM
Jun 2014

she always runs out there to help them out,trying to cover her ass. Sooner or later she is going to get caught up trying to play both sides.

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,406 posts)
3. McCain and other GOPers were eager for this prisoner's release
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 07:57 AM
Jun 2014

As usual, they're upset that PBO actually got something done.

former9thward

(31,981 posts)
7. Should we have sent troops back to Vietnam to search?
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 08:01 PM
Jun 2014

What upsets you about McCain's statement --he only gave one -- how long under torture would you have held out? Are you upset that he refused to meet with anti-war groups seeking to give the Vietnamese a propaganda victory? The slander of our Vietnam war POWs continues...

busterbrown

(8,515 posts)
8. No... I am upset that he has continually talked out of 2 sides his fucking mouth for
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 09:20 PM
Jun 2014

decades...You mentioning a "Propaganda Victory for the Vietnamese” as a question? Sounds as though you feel that we are still fighting that aspect... We murdered tens of thousands of Civilians in a war based on absolute lies.. and you still are talking “Propaganda”?

Anyone who still talks about the monolithic spread of Communism as a reason for going to war in Southeast Asia is an idiot!! McCain is an idiot!!!

ThoughtCriminal

(14,047 posts)
9. No. He needs to find the moral courage to praise it
Wed Jun 4, 2014, 10:42 PM
Jun 2014

and condemn the members of his party who are out of their freaking minds.

But he lacks the courage and wisdom. If we have learned anything about McCain, he never had either.

CBHagman

(16,984 posts)
10. Rachel Maddow aired footage of McCain seeming to agree with prisoner swap.
Thu Jun 5, 2014, 07:37 AM
Jun 2014

I'll have to find the link (The clip aired on last night's show and might not be up yet). It was all part of a set-up for a first segment of The Rachel Maddow Show dealing with how members of the GOP support a position, leaving audio and video and sometimes written evidence for it, and then reverse course when the president actually takes action.

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