Gordon
Duff, the Senior Editor of Veterans Today has said THIS about John McCain’s war conduct;
“It pains me to have to back Donald Trump (who dodged the
draft during the Vietnam War for year after year) on John McCain but
here is what Trump should have said:
COMMAND SERGEANT MAJOR
JOHN HOLLAND ON JOHN MCCAIN
“HANOI JOHN”
by Gordon
Duff, VT Editor
Presidential pardon from
Nixon saves John McCain from treason and collaboration charges according to
Rolling Thunder Founder and 3 war veteran, John Holland….
Why nothing in the news…
Why no reports…..
Why was the truth kept
from American during the election?
“Some of us have seen
the reports about John McCain. I know what Ted Guy had to say about McCain and
I know how angry POW activists have been at his betrayal of their cause. What I
didn’t know and that few of us knew, is that John Holland, Rolling Thunder
Founder, had called for the Republican Party to remove McCain from the ticket.
“This isn’t a minor
story and isn’t one that has gone away just because the election is over. Many
of us who knew what McCain had done didn’t know how much power the money boys
behind Palin and McCain could go to suppress this information during the
campaign.
“Rally after rally,
fellow POW and controversial Medal of Honor holder, Bud Day, stood beside
McCain, backing him up. With substantiated claims of hundreds of counts of
treason, collaboration and aid and comfort to the enemy suppressed against
McCain and a number of unnamed other POWs who were expecting to be prosecuted
when returned, this entire act during the election seems sick.
“Ted Sampley, Vietnam
combat veteran, now deceased,
wrote at length about McCain and Day. Sampley’s article on Day’s Medal of Honor
is extremely revealing. (U.S. Veterans Dispatch)
“A fair comparison to
McCain would be Jane Fonda. Both spent time in North Vietnam.
“Both are accused of
helping North Vietnam, Fonda by being photographed and McCain by doing many
propaganda broadcasts and helping the enemy plan attacks on American soldiers.
“Fonda returned to be
reviled and spit on while McCain returned to the Senate, spending years helping
North Vietnam keep Americans prisoner and amassing a huge fortune trading on
heroism and sacrifice we are now told never happened.
“Of the two, Fonda was
the more honest and by far had done the least harm to the United States.
“According to sources,
it was John McCain that fired the rocket that caused the Forrestal incident,
the most serious disaster on an American ship. Stories make him out to be a
“hero” and an “unnamed” total idiot is blamed. McCain is said to be that idiot
with his daddy running cover for him.
“Thus far, Jane Fonda
has never attacked one of our ships. We will be taking a look at both McCain
and Fonda and try to verify claims. Perhaps they could have a contest to see
who killed the most Americans. No tally as to how many pilots were shot down using
intel McCain admits giving the North Vietnamese has been made. The Forrestal
incident may be a huge cover-up in itself.
“McCain’s cover story,
that the plane behind him fired a missile into his plane is at odds with other
stories that blame exploding bombs on some other part of the ship. The
investigation and all records involving his military records were under the
direct supervision of his own father.
“We are going to look
at Holland’s evidence and see if there are statements from people on the
Forrestal.
“Colonel Ted Guy was
preparing criminal charges against John McCain when Nixon took Admiral McCain’s
little boy under his wing. Where are McCain’s 32 propaganda tapes that were
made during Vietnam and broadcast over the radio to US troops? (Colonel Ted Guy)
“Why did McCain accuse
American soldiers of war crimes during Vietnam? What did he get in return?
“If our news media can
go thru a presidential election hiding all of this from the American people,
nearly putting someone like this in office, what else are they capable of? What
else have they done? What else are they hiding?
“Vietnam veterans are
requesting that the records
of the debriefing of all POWS be made public. Those who were heroes need real
recognition and shouldn’t have to hide behind a presidential pardon they never
needed or wanted.
“Those who betrayed
their country, some to sit in public office, on corporate boards or to travel
around the country basking in glory and pointing fingers at others need to get
the homecoming they earned. We spent the last 35 years honoring ALL the POWs
while 58,000 dead and another 200,000 plus dying were neglected and abused,
denied jobs, denied medical care and hated by their fellow Americans.
“None of this would
matter if the shadow of Vietnam would die too. It lives on. While some of us
are still around, perhaps a moment of justice is in order to help the forgotten
and the fallen, wherever their spirits are tonight.
“Imagine. Some people
were actually worried that Barak Obama might be a Muslim or born in Africa. The
same people, with credible information from unimpeachable sources stating that
John McCain is a Communist agent and traitor didn’t blink an eye.
Senator John McCain’s Post-War conduct has been
much more obvious;
“John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image
as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the
public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike
him, didn’t return home.
Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and
pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing
information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero
who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests
of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the
evidence and closing the books.
[…]
McCain’s Role
An early and critical McCain secrecy move involved 1990 legislation
that started in the House of Representatives. A brief and simple document, it
was called “the Truth Bill” and would have compelled complete transparency
about prisoners and missing men.
Its core sentence reads: “[The] head of each department or agency
which holds or receives any records and information, including live-sighting
reports, which have been correlated or possibly correlated to United States
personnel listed as prisoner of war or missing in action from World War II, the
Korean conflict and the Vietnam conflict, shall make available to the public
all such records held or received by that department or agency.”
Bitterly opposed by the Pentagon (and thus McCain), the bill went
nowhere. Reintroduced the following year, it again disappeared. But a few
months later, a new measure, known as “the McCain Bill,” suddenly appeared. By
creating a bureaucratic maze from which only a fraction of the documents could
emerge - only records that revealed no POW secrets — it turned the Truth Bill
on its head.
The McCain bill became law in 1991 and remains so today. So
crushing to transparency are its provisions that it actually spells out for the
Pentagon and other agencies several rationales, scenarios, and justifications
for not releasing any information at all—even about prisoners discovered alive
in captivity. Later that year, the Senate Select Committee was created, where
Kerry and McCain ultimately worked together to bury evidence.
McCain was also instrumental in amending the Missing Service
Personnel Act, which had been strengthened in 1995 by POW advocates to include
criminal penalties, saying, “Any government official who knowingly and
willfully withholds from the file of a missing person any information relating
to the disappearance or whereabouts and status of a missing person shall be
fined as provided in Title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year or both.”
A year later, in a closed House-Senate conference on an unrelated
military bill, McCain, at the behest of the Pentagon, attached a crippling
amendment to the act, stripping out its only enforcement teeth, the criminal
penalties, and reducing the obligations of commanders in the field to speedily
search for missing men and to report the incidents to the Pentagon.
About the relaxation of POW/MIA obligations on commanders in the
field, a public McCain memo said, “This transfers the bureaucracy involved out
of the [battle] field to Washington.” He wrote that the original legislation,
if left intact, “would accomplish nothing but create new jobs for lawyers and
turn military commanders into clerks.”
McCain argued that keeping the criminal penalties would have made
it impossible for the Pentagon to find staffers willing to work on POW/MIA
matters. That’s an odd argument to make. Were staffers only “willing to work”
if they were allowed to conceal POW records? By eviscerating the law, McCain
gave his stamp of approval to the government policy of debunking the existence
of live POWs.
McCain has insisted again and again that all the
evidence—documents, witnesses, satellite photos, two Pentagon chiefs’ sworn
testimony, aborted rescue missions, ransom offers apparently scorned—has been
woven together by unscrupulous deceivers to create an insidious and unpatriotic
myth. He calls it the “bizarre rantings of the MIA hobbyists.” He has regularly
vilified those who keep trying to pry out classified documents as “hoaxers,”
“charlatans,” “conspiracy theorists,” and “dime-store Rambos.”
.
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Today,
how many Americans know that those with him at the Hanoi Hilton claim that the
first thing John McCain did was tell his captors that his father was an Admiral
and allowed himself to be used as a propaganda tool for the North Vietnamese?
How
many know that his own Senate record proves that he’s made it harder for
families to gain information on missing POWs and gutted provisions for criminal
and civil penalties against government officials for hiding such information?
Donald
Trump isn’t the ONLY one who seems to think John McCain is no “war hero,” many
Vietnam era Veterans seem to feel the SAME way!
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