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Why are YOU voting Republican?

McCain volunteered to fight in a war more unpopular than Iraq and suffered the tortures of the damned for it.

The Iraq War is more unpopular, as the whole world (except for a few countries) were, and still are against it. Much more so than world opinion was against Vietnam at the time.

Or do only Americans’ opinions count?

The comparison is totally disingenuous.

If troop casualties were ever important to these Bushie bozos (and I include McSame in that category) there would never have been an invasion of Iraq in the first place. Apparently, McSame isn’t even trying to pretend that he cares a whit about civilian casualties.

Eh, Keltoi – let’s just weigh that against all the frothing reichers wishing death on Teddy Kennedy – even on television and radio – and let it go, OK?

Fair enough, I condemn anyone wishing death on any American of any political stripe. Consider it done.

Wayne Says:
Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE) adds: “I think many of our brave soldiers and their families would disagree that it’s ‘not too important’ when they come home.”

High five, Joe.

Terrorist fist bump.

Keltoi Says:

McCain volunteered to fight in a war more unpopular than Iraq and suffered the tortures of the damned for it.

To be fair, Vietnam didn’t have the benefit of a slick marketing campaign. LBJ tried guerilla marketing and, before the age of the internet, it may have been an unwise choice.

But BushCo — now THOSE guys knew how to sell a bogus war.

(But I agree with you, Keltoi — ThomasMc’s comment was tasteless and over the top. I too tend to give him teh benefoit of the doubt in terms of hyperbole.)

LMAO

I repeat: argue policy all day long. McCain volunteered to fight in a war more unpopular than Iraq and suffered the tortures of the damned for it. You don’t have to agree with him or vote for him. Wishing any American death or endless torment at the hands of our country’s enemies is screwed up and there is no two ways about it.

Uh, no. McCain became a Naval aviator in 1958, Keltoi, well before the Vietnam War started, much less before it became “more unpopular than Iraq” (which is a dubious claim at this point). He was shot down in 1967 and, yes, he was imprisoned in a hellhole. But let’s keep the details correct, OK. He was a member of a military family–like his father and grandfather, he went to Annapolis where, according to Wikipedia, he finished up 894 out of 899.

There is no question that he went through Hell in Vietnam, suffering from disease, beatings and torture. There is also no question that he had already flown 22 bombing runs over Vietnam, killing and maiming an unknown number of human beings. I have a very difficult time accepting the notion that there is anything heroic about bombing (or napalming?) humans, especially in the circumstances of that war.

I didn’t agree-with or vote for Bush, but I and all of us got stuck with him.

Understood. My point is simple. Wishing McCain had not come back from Vietnam should be a statement that is easy to condemn. Certainly Obama would decry it.

I didn’t agree-with or vote for Bush, but I and all of us got stuck with him.

High five, Joe.