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It's a legitimate observation. McCain was the traitor, not Bergdahl. He sang like a bird, trashed his country to the French and Vietnamese, and won the favor of special treatment.
And by his own admission, he became a POW be wandering off course and getting captured.
I think you got McCain mixed up with Kerry.
Absolutely not. Kerry called actions in Vietnam atrocities. That's the truth.
McCain? As the OP states, he blocked release of information about his fellow POW's, guys who didn't get the cushy treatment he did.
WHY IS THAT???
Why did he block bill after bill after bill trying to get the info released. What's he hiding???
If this had been Obama, you ball licking teabaggers would be screaming "WHERE'S THE TRANSPARENCY???"
McCain and the POW Cover-Up | The American Conservative
Now read this, if you're capable.
McNasty » CounterPunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
War. If youre a Glory Boy like John Sidney McCain III, you really have no idea what it is. You drop bombs on cities, on civilians, maybe on enemy forces, maybe on your own troops. Glory Boys like John McCain rarely get a taste of the horror they inflict on others. Their suffering rarely extends beyond the high anxiety that they might get shot down and that some bombarded mob on the ground might take its revenge.
Being a POW is what my father and John McCain have in common; although their experience as POWs was as different as their class and their character.
Class indeed has privileges, and while the government refused to provide my combat-veteran father with medical benefits for his malaria, McCain, who spent ten hours of his life in mortal danger, was decorated with the Silver Star, Legion of Merit, Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.
And thus the war hero myth was born.
Then there's these two comments. I don't think Bergdahl ever muttered them in pride.
I am a war criminal
I bombed innocent women and children.
Here is the McCain bill, please show me where he blocked anything?
The statute requires the Secretary of
Defense to make available to the public--in a "library like
setting1,--alli nformation relating to the treatment, location,
and/or condition (T-L-C) of United States personnel who are
unaccounted-for from the Vietnam War. The facility chosen
to receive this information is the Library of Congress (LoC).
The Secretary of Defense is named as the "official
custodian."
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/pow/pdf/McCain_bill.pdf