Wednesday, June 25, 2008

McCain's captor

The BBC has a report, http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7459946.stm , which is an interview with the Vietnamese military officer that was in charge of the prison where John McCain was allegedly kept during his stint as a prisoner of war. The man, Tran Trong Duyet, basically says McCain is full of shit about his being tortured. This is not the first time I've heard this. There's no way to prove he was tortured and there's no way to prove he wasn't. And what if they did torture him? He was dropping bombs on a city. A city with women and their children, the elderly and sick. He's alive. Dropping bombs is more cowardly than drive-by shootings. This guy's no hero. He's a killer that enjoyed killing people in a war that was wrong. When you fly a fighter plane you are definitely going to kill more than the average foot soldier will in his whole life. When you are a pilot the only thing most people think about is the prestige of being a pilot. They really don't stop to think about the carnage that is caused every time the pilot goes on a bombing run.
Recently I watched a show on the military channel about a group of our soldiers who were under fire in Iraq. The highlight was the work of the pilots that gave them air support. The pilots did an extremely difficult pinpoint drop of cluster bombs which, according to the soldiers under attack, vaporized the Iraqi attackers. Vaporized. The weapons John McCain was dropping on Vietnamese people weren't as destructive as today's but you get the picture. Knowing that the chances of killing innocents by dropping bombs far more likely than shooting a gun at them just shows the savage nature of McCain and any other person who flies fighters/ bombers.
Even McCain's website has a game (ripoff of space invaders) where you shoot vetoes at pork projects. Go ahead my friends, give it a shot. http://www.johnmccain.com/videogame/invaders/#Game%20Over

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