John McCain: Packer of Lies

"When I was first interrogated and really had to give some information because of the physical pressures that were on me, I named the starting lineup -- defensive line -- of the Pittsburgh Steelers as my squadron-mates!"

Thusly lied John McCain, milking and politicizing his torture in Vietnam, as he pandered to a Pittsburgh TV station KDKA. Pity it didn’t match the story he told in his best-selling memoir “Faith of My Fathers,” in which he claims to have recited the names of the Green Bay Packers.

“Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron. When asked to identify future targets, I simply recited the names of a number of North Vietnamese cities that had already been bombed.”

Uh huh.

I, for one, am so over having to pay respect to John McCain’s supposed hero status. His alleged torture doesn’t even ring true with me. Someone who was actually tortured wouldn’t have compromised, as he did, in legislation related to America’s responsibility to uphold the Geneva Conventions. Someone actually tortured would have stood his ground with an unequivocal condemnation. Not John McCain. And so, like the faux outrage over The New Yorker’s Obama cover, depicting him as an unpatriotic, fist-bumping terrorist, there is another supoosedly hallowed topic we daren’t discuss. The bullshit McCain keeps reciting about his torture that everyone seems petrified to question.

Is John McCain a demented, forgetful, damaged veteran, unfit to be a Commander in Chief, or a pandering liar, unfit to be a Commander in Chief?

Comments

[nezua]

i agree. it makes no sense that he wouldn't inherently understand the horror of being tortured. but then again...maybe its like that Tool song "Prison Sex." maybe it's just a case of "do unto others what has been done to me." dunno, but he creeps me out either way.

[Alchy]

You should see a French report of 1992 (in French) By Daniel Roussel where American officers (captain Lynn Beens, Colonel John Harry Yull) in the same Hanoi prison camp, explain that there were no torture and no bad treatment there. The ex director of the Hanoi-Hilton, Tran Trong Duyet talks about Mc Cain and also a nurse who took care of him after he crashed with his plain, Nguyen Chi Thanh, and they explain the good relationship they had with him, John Mc Cain they remembered. The same director doesn't understand as he was in good terms with him, and that he also taught English to him as they had a good relationship.

Every body tells that there was no bad treatment there (American officers, nurse, director), but Mc Cain.

I think he had to explain himself why he was mad prisoner so quickly and did nothing in that war (really nothing! But lying and having false testimony…).

To see that report in French (with some English speeches) “John McCain la grande illusion” : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7aqxz_john-mccain-la-grande-illusion_news

We can also see that he gets out of the Hanoi prison in good health in 1973 and that he can walk with no reel problem, but when he is in front of Nixon, he suddenly need crutches and limps a lot.

It appears that he was also interviewed by a journalist in the military hospital 108 when he came back and that he talked about his injuries when he crashed and never about the injuries of any tortures or violence of any Vietminh. After that, he started to invent a history of torture and made his political career.

[Alchy]

Make it known, that guy doesn't believe in God or in the 10 commandments.