Looking Back at John McCain

In 1999 in the run-up to George W. Bush being elected president by the Florida Supreme Court and by Florida voter-fraud, Bush lost the New Hampshire primary to Arizona Senator John McCain. However Bush got 9 of the 13 “Super Tuesday” states and wrapped up the nomination. Plus, his handlers saw to it that lies were circulated in the press about McCain. After the New Hampshire primary, the Bush strategists (that is, Karl Rove) realized their candidate just might lose in the general election. And the famous McCain Smear was put into action. Nothing was too fanciful. McCain was accused of fathering a black child, he was called “the fag candidate”, his wife was accused of being a druggie, and he was called a Vietnam War nutcase. Since he had been a “Hanoi Hilton” Prisoner of War for five-and-a-half years, the GOP labeled him “mentally unstable”. The truth was that McCain and his wife had adopted a baby in Bangladesh. He had met with a group of gay Republicans. And although his wife at one time was addicted to prescription drugs, she had outed herself publicly on that score. My problem with McCain is that I believe he wants to keep the United States in war mode. And in that obsession I do believe he is unstable. I believe the mild-mannered, quick to make a joke John McCain turns into a warmongering fanatic when the issue is war. He demurs when accused of being a hero. He says that he was “too incompetent” to keep from being shot down and being captured and he should not be called a war hero. And he probably doesn’t think of himself as a hero. But he was a casualty twice before being shot down in Vietnam and he kept going back into active duty. He reminds me of Audie Murphy in WWII. When the truth became known about Murphy’s war heroics, it was found that his exploits put his fellow soldiers at risk. John McCain wants us to stay in Iraq and finish the job. He believes that winning is worth however many American soldiers are killed. He has said, “There is no substitute for victory”. John McCain is in favor of General Michael Hayden being the next CIA Director. It was when Hayden was National Security Agency director in 2001 that George W. Bush authorized warrantless wiretaps. McCain has never come out and said warrantless wiretaps are illegal. He sits on the fence and says, “Let’s find out if they are illegal.” As a matter of fact, McCain straddles every issue except war. John McCain will be 72 in 2008 and there is nothing he would like better than to be a war president. Negroponte and Hayden will help McCain oust Rumsfeld (which surely can only be a plus), but that will leave the field wide open for John McCain, as president, to finally conduct as many wars as he likes. And he really really likes war. John McCain, like the present powers in the Republican Party, will say and do whatever he has to say and do to become president. And then he’ll show President Lyndon Johnson and all the incompetent generals and his capturers in Vietnam and the whole world just how war should be fought and WON!! From John McCain may the Good Lord deliver us.