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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: gao seng who wrote (12672)	2/26/2000 8:29:00 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

I see nothing in your post to change my mind about anything - McCain, POW's, or the character of those attempting to malign him as a "traitor" for political reasons. You miss the point about McCain turning down the early release offer. Here's a bit of "propaganda" on McCain from James B. Stockdale, retired Navy Vice Admiral and a former POW himself: . . . I consider it blasphemy to smudge the straight-arrow prisoner-of-war record of a man who was near death when he arrived at Hoa Loa prison 1967: both arms broken, left leg broken, left shoulder broken by a civilian with a rifle butt. He was eventually taken to the same rat-infested hospital room I had occupied two years earlier, and, like me, he had surgery on his leg. By then the Vietnamese had discovered that his father was the ranlcing admiral in the Pacific Fleet, and he received an offer that, as far as I know, was made to no other American prisoner: immediate release, no strings attached. He refused, thereby sentencing himself to four more years in a cell. There was a special cramped and hot privy-like structure in that Hanoi prison reserved for whichever American was causing the Vietnamese the most trouble. I was the first in the camp to be locked up in it, and I gave it the name Calcutta. There was only room for one person at a time in the cage, and after a couple of months I was taken out and marched back to a regular cell. As I limped along, I sneaked a peek at my replacement: John McCain, hobbling along on his own bad leg. One last thing - about your closing statement: What a measly piss ant your are. I should do you the favor of pointing out (as you're probably not aware) that statements like this say more about yourself than the person you direct them to. Good evening.