PoliCHARTZ - Thread of U.S. Politics & the Presidential Election

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halogamer1989 said:

And he gave them the starting lineup, defensive for the Steelers and the Packers later as his squadron mates as evidence. Bend your arms behind your back and rotate them a full 360 and then do a little stretching on the rack while bamboo shoots are shoved into your stomach and your fingernails. Until then, fkusomot, you do not know John McCain.

In McCain's best-selling 1999 memoir "Faith of My Fathers," McCain writes:

"Once my condition had stabilized, my interrogators resumed their work. Demands for military information were accompanied by threats to terminate my medical treatment if I did not cooperate. Eventually, I gave them my ship's name and squadron number, and confirmed that my target had been the power plant. Pressed for more useful information, I gave the names of the Green Bay Packers offensive line, and said they were members of my squadron. When asked to identify future targets, I simply recited the names of a number of North Vietnamese cities that had already been bombed."

In 2005, A&E ran a movie version of "Faith of My Fathers."

And McCain discussed that precise clip on CNN.

The actor playing McCain, asked to name the men in his squadron, says: "Starr; Greg; McGee; Davis; Adderly; Brown; Ringo; Wood."

Cut back to real life. The CNN anchor asks McCain: "For those who don't know the story, were those NFL football players?" "That was the starting lineup of the Green Bay Packers, the first Super Bowl champions, yes," McCain responded.

"I always liked to strut a little after I'd been roughed up to show the other guys I was tough enough to take it. But after I turned down their offer, they worked me over harder than they ever had before. For a long time. And they broke me." - John McCain, RNC Acceptance Speech, 2008

So you admit, he lied. He lied when he said they broke him or he lied when he said they didn't break him. Either way he lied. He has left behind his honor and become a liar. In his quest for the presidency he's lying. Now being stretched out on a rack while bamboo shoots are shoved into your stomach and fingernails is being "roughed up" and "worked" over. Wow. Just wow.

Anyways, you've already admitted that you think the treatment McCain received from his captors was entirely ethical and proper. They were just trying to save their fellow citizens lives. You've already admitted that you would have been one of the people shoving bamboo shoots into him if you thought it would save one of your country mens lives. Good for you. You're one of the people that was for the torture of McCain while he was a prisoner of war.

So that's nice to know. Some of the people that support John McCain are the kind of people with that kind of honor and dignity that support the way the Vietnamese "worked over" John McCain. Just curious, are you also in support of the assassination of foreign leaders who are deemed to be a threat to the country?