My heart goes out to Barack Obama and his family for the loss of his wonderful grandmother.
My prayers and thoughts will be with him.
According to CNN news they have asked us not to send flowers instead to donate money to any charity that fights cancer. Too many of our loved ones have died from cancer, including my dad. Perhaps one day we can find the cure with everyone's help!
Juli
Proof that John McCain is a Traitor to his country, and that he covered it up and is unfit to be President!
He willingly gave up information that significantly increased the loss of military planes by 60% and significantly increased the loss of lives! People died because of the information he gave to the enemy. John McCain used his influence and power to have his POW and Military records permanently sealed from public scrutiny! What is he hiding, Americans deserve to know the truth about John McCain!
quote by Former POW Mark A. Smith, captured April 7, 1972 about John McCain below
"My concerns are simple. I believe that any and all of the intelligence held by U.S. Government agencies on Senator McCain's time as a POW must be made available to the media and public. There is too much danger of a President being held hostage by things in the files of Intelligence agencies and, even more dangerous, held in the files of foreign governments in Asia and Europe." Former POW Mark A. Smith, captured April 7, 1972 end quote.....................................
Republicans Allege McCain Covered Up His Collaboration with the North Vietnamese While a POW
http://www.alternet.org/election08/99663/republicans_allege_mccain_covered_up_his_collaboration_with_the_north_vietnamese_while_a_pow/
McCain's Military Record Shows He Is Unfit To Be President
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-military-record-shows-he-is.html
McCain Is Not A War Hero
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-is-not-war-hero.html
TRAITOR RUNS FOR PRESIDENT
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/traitor-runs-for-president.html
Shocking Truth About John McCain!
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/shocking-truth-about-john-mccain.html
CODE OF CONDUCT FOR PRISONERS OF WAR
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/code-of-conduct-for-prisoners-of-war.html
RHINESTONE HERO
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/rhinestone-hero.html
POW RECORDS MUST BE RELEASED
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/pow-records-must-be-released.html
VIETNAM VETERANS AND POWS HATE JOHN MCCAIN
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/vietnam-veterans-and-pows-hate-john.html
MCCAIN THE COLLABORATOR
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-collaborator.html
John McCain: Privileged 'War Hero', Liar, Colloborator, Traitor
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/john-mccain-privileged-war-hero-liar.html
COLONEL EARL HOPPER'S 5 PART INTERVIEW ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN'S TREASONOUS ACTS AGAINST AMERICA AND HIS FELLOW SERVICEMEN
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/colonel-earl-hoppers-5-part-interview.html
MCCAIN WAS NEVER TORTURED
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-was-never-tortured.html
McCain and the POW Cover-Up
http://www.truthout.org/article/mccain-and-pow-cover-up
The War Secrets Sen. John McCain Hides
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/war-secrets-sen-john-mccain-hides.html
McCain's POW files must also be released
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccains-pow-files-must-also-be-released.html
MCCAIN BETRAYS POWs
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-betrays-pows.html
Wife of POW says McCain is no friend of POW families
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/wife-of-pow-says-mccain-is-no-friend-of.html
Proof John McCain is Unfit to be our leader. This article proves he is a LIAR! Proves he is inept! Proves he is a coward and that he abandoned and refused to help the wounded and dying men on the USS FORRESTAL! He did NOT show leadership qualities! He didn't do his duty! He is responsible for loss of lives on USS FORRESTAL! He ran to daddy to be bailed out again! Lied about being injured! He embellish his accounts with lies in order to make himself look like a hero!
"McCain left the crisis to others and descended to safety below!"
MCCAIN AND THE USS FORRESTAL DISASTOR - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/10/mccain-and-uss-forrestal-disastor-what.html
Juli Norwood
THE WMD - JACK ABRAMOFF - SAUDI BANK RAIDERS AND JUNK BOND KINGS COVER UPS
This is a MUST read 3 part story about the crimes and cover ups of Republican Senator John McCain.
The Crimes And Cover-Ups Of John McCain Part 1: McCain's Role in the WMD Cover upWMD COVER UP
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John McCain was certainly at the center of this. During the lead-up to the invasion of Iraq, he was Chairman or Ranking Minority Member of the Senate Commerce Committee, as well as a sitting Member on the Senate Armed Services Committee. He used his particular credibility and influence with the U.S. military to sell a fraudulent intelligence product.McCain fully embraced the delusion about cheap and easy Middle East wars, and was a co-sponsor of the Act that led to the creation of a false intelligence factory funded by the U.S. Congress to replace CIA Iraq reporting.
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Part 1: McCain's Role in the WMD Cover up
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00095.htm
The Crimes And Cover-Ups Of John McCain Part 2 - McCain’s 30-Years of Service to Saudi Bank Raiders and Junk Bond Kings
SAUDI BANK RAIDERS AND JUNK BOND KINGS COVER UP
From BCCI, to Milken’s Junk Bond Kings, to Jack Abramoff, Senator John McCain has long provided the clean All-American face to the dirty job of cleaning up after the looting of America.
Part 2 - McCain’s 30-Years of Service to Saudi Bank Raiders and Junk Bond Kings
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00096.htm
The Crimes And Cover-Ups Of John McCain
Part 3 Senator McCover-Up: Abramoff & the GOP Foreign Money Machine
JACK ABRAMOFF COVER UP
As Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee from 2005-2007, McCain was instrumental in suppressing evidence of Jack Abramoff’s role in directing illegal foreign payoffs to ranking members of the Republican Party.
Part 3 - Senator McCover-Up: Abramoff & the GOP Foreign Money Machine
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0806/S00097.htm
The Melanoma Cover Up!
Please read this 6 page article to learn how McCain's lack of preventative care is responsible for his past and future melanoma's that may cut his life short and about how his being a poor role model may cost the life of thousands! More importantly why isn't he standing up and calling the sunscreen salesmen the biggest snake oil salesmen in the world!
The Sunscreen Scam needs to be addressed now! Again McCain failed to take on the sunscreen companies and do what is right!
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When John McCain rode an airboat through the sun-drenched Florida Everglades in June, he was sure to lather up with plenty of sunscreen (SPF-30 is his preference) and wear a baseball cap. For someone with his melanoma history, this was poor preventive medicine. In a UVA-saturated wetland, this outfit made him vulnerable for more melanomas on his face, neck, hands and other exposed areas.
In fact, the most effective preventive sunscreen is not found in an expensive 6-ounce bottle, which generally offers little or no melanoma protection. It is simple avoidance of the sun between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., proper clothing and eyewear, wide-brimmed hats (4 inches or more) and shady structures.
McCain's activities may have cost him his life (as we'll discuss), and more importantly, they may contribute to the loss of thousands of lives for those who emulate his behavior. As the most well-known melanoma victim of our times, McCain's decision to shun the best sun-smart policies, noted below, sets a very bad example.
But McCain apparently doesn't know, doesn't care, or just doesn't want to draw attention to his disease by donning a showy 4-inch wide-brimmed hat for his ongoing public appearances.
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Please click the link below to read the 6 page report in it's entirety.
http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/92412/baseball_caps_and_sunscreen:_mccain's_melanoma_cover-up/?page=1
Read about John McCain's Cover Up to keep his POW files sealed otherwise he would lose the presidential race for being found out as a traitor!
Read about how McCain abused POW and MIA families and passed laws to keep all POW records sealed to protect his own shameful records and keep his betrayal of America a secret!
Read about why the records of a fatal car accident that may have involved alcohol involving John McCain are being withheld by the navy.
Read about how McCain cost the lives of American ship mates on the USS FORRESTAL. Why did he go hide below deck while ship mates were gallantly fighting fires and aiding the wounded and dying? Why did he leave the ship? Do we really want a man with acts of incompetence, cowardice, deceit and Lack of Leadership to be our President?
Read about McCain's role in the Keating 5 scandal. Again he gets only a slap on the wrist for his horrendous role in the Keating 5.
Read the real truth about Cindy McCain's Drug Addiction cover up scandal!
Read about John McCains Melanoma Cover up! Lack of the Moral fibre to fight the Sunscreen Snake Oil Salesmen of the world. How his lack of preventative care may cost him not only his life but thousands of others lives!
Read about John McCain's pivotal role in the WMD myth and deception. Read about how McCain has helped the Saudi and Junk Bond Kings loot America, and how he was instrumental in suppressing evidence of Jack Abramoff’s role in directing illegal foreign payoffs to ranking members of the Republican Party.
John McCain is UNFIT to run for President - Muchless become a President!
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/11/john-mccain-cover-ups.html
Republican Ken Duberstein, President Reagan's former chief of staff, had this to say regarding John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin:
What most Americans I think realize is that you don't offer a job, let alone the vice presidency, to a person after one job interview. Even at McDonald's you're interviewed three times before you're given a job.
Also Republican Eagleburger when asked if Sarah Palin was qualified as vice president gave a resounding Of Course Not!
See the video of both Republicans denouncing Sarah Palin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CMwGPpcKQ4
COVER UP BY THE NAVY ABOUT A FATAL CAR CRASH THAT INVOLVED MCCAIN
From an article titled "News Orgs Investigate Possibly Fatal McCain '64 Car Crash" by Sam Stein of the Huffington Post.
Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge "developed from first-hand sources" of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover up may be at play.
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To learn more click link below.
FATAL CAR CRASH COVER UP
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/news-orgs-investigate-pos_n_138449.html
Cover ups involving John McCain is nothing new. I have listed several McCain Cover Ups below.
THE POW COVER UP
To date John McCain's Military and POW records have been sealed and made unavailable to the public and news organizations. Considering the fact that McCain is running for the highest office of this country and has accusations of being a traitor to his country being made by fellow decorated POWs, several of which were senior ranking officers at the POW camp with McCain... you would think the public would be in an uproar and the media would be up storming the capital demanding their release prior to the election.
One can only come to the conclusion that the Cover Up has the blessings of the incumbant president George W. Bush.
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGgFN3
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http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGgbCn
THE FORRESTAL COVER UP
McCain's Involvement and Accountability for the Tragedy on the USS FORRESTAL was also Covered Up!
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGgzYv
POW AND MIA COVER UP
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGg2DD
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGgLm7
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGg2fn
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/julinorwood/gGgFhT
KEATING 5 COVER UP
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/1989-11-29/news/mccain-the-most-reprehensible-of-the-keating-five/1
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/5/11/141034/067
http://mccainkeatingfive.com/?p=6
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/361711/john_mccain_the_ghost_of_keating_five
CINDY MCCAINS DRUG ADDICTION COVER UP
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=8147
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/11/mccains-own-lack-of-preventative.html
http://goneblogwild.blogspot.com/2008/11/crimes-and-cover-ups-of-john-mccain.html
McCain abandoned his fellow ship mates. The very men who scrambled to save the lives of the pilots including McCain were lying on the deck wounded, or dying or dead and John McCain went and hid below deck.
While other crewmen who had no firefighting training or protective gear courageously and valiantly came forward to fight the fires and aid their fallen comrades.
To read the full story of John McCain's Cowardice, Lies, and Incompetent Actions that cost the lives of many men on the USS FORRESTAL see the link below.
He was tested and failed miserably.
His actions aboards the USS FORRESTAL during a crisis proved he is unfit to be president!
There are several accounts out there about John McCain's involvement in causing the disastor or in making the disastor far worse. No one will ever really know the full truth due to a cover up. You see John McCain's father and grandfather were both admirals. Wink Wink ;-)
John McCain's own account of what happened doesn't match other eye witness accounts.
This investigative reporting of what happened that day is done by Mary Hershburger a free lance award winning author.
Mary Hershberger is a historian and the author of “Jane Fonda’s War” and other books. She is a recipient of the Binkley-Stephenson Award, given annually for the best scholarly article in the Journal of American History.
Investigating John McCain’s Tragedy at Sea
By Mary Hershberger
John McCain’s personal account of his life has shaped a powerful political narrative that accords him deference on the full range of policy issues. His first effort at shaping that narrative received a remarkable boost when the May 14, 1973, edition of U.S. News and World Report gave him space for what is perhaps the longest article the magazine had ever run, a 12,000-word piece composed entirely of his unedited and often rambling account of his prisoner-of-war experience. Ever since, McCain has added compelling details at key points in his political career. When his stories are placed beside documented evidence from other sources, significant contradictions often emerge.
One such case involves McCain’s experience in the devastating fire and explosions that killed 134 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War three months before he was shot down over North Vietnam. McCain has made claims about this accident that differ dramatically from parts of the official Navy report and accounts of reliable eyewitnesses.
In considering the 1967 catastrophe, it is important to note that the official report concluded that no individual bore responsibility for the fire or its spread. There are a number of conflicting accounts of the Forrestal accident, but here is the story as based on the strongest sources.
The fire started at 10:51 a.m. Saturday, July 29, 1967, as 30-year-old Lt. Cmdr. John McCain sat on the port side of the Forrestal in his A-4 Skyhawk going through preflight checks. To his right was Lt. Cmdr. Fred White, also in an A-4 Skyhawk attack aircraft. A Zuni rocket on another airplane accidentally fired and flew across the flight deck, passing through White’s auxiliary fuel tank and falling into the ocean. Fuel spilled onto the deck from White’s craft and ignited. McCain told his biographer, Robert Timberg, and repeats in his own book, “Faith of My Fathers,” that the rocket hit his own plane and knocked two bombs from it into the burning fuel as he scrambled out of his cockpit and raced to safety across the deck.1
There was, in fact, a single bomb—not two—that dropped to the deck. It exploded 90 seconds after the fire broke out, intensifying the blaze until it raged out of control. White and Thomas Ott, McCain’s parachute rigger, were among the first to be killed instantly or mortally injured, along with most of the firefighting crew. McCain’s plane captain, Robert Zwerlein, was one of those who suffered fatal wounds at this point.
A camera on the deck recorded images showing that the Zuni rocket struck White’s plane. The Navy report later attributed the dropped bomb to White’s plane, although the film footage does not seem to establish this definitively. However, McCain has said many times that the Zuni rocket caused the bomb (two bombs in McCain’s version) to fall from his own craft.
Some of those who were on the Forrestal and other persons familiar with the ordnance told me that because the rocket did not hit McCain’s craft, only actions by the pilot could have caused any bomb to fall from McCain’s Skyhawk. These sources—who spoke under the condition that they not be publicly identified—agree with each other that, if any bomb fell from the McCain airplane, it was because of actions that he took either in error or panic upon seeing the fire on the deck or in his hasty exit from the plane. Two switches in the cockpit of a Skyhawk need to be thrown to drop such a bomb, according to the sources.
Whatever the circumstances of the fire’s origins, McCain did not stay on deck to help fight the blaze as the men around him did. With the firefighting crew virtually wiped out, men untrained in fighting fires had to pick up the fire hoses, rescue the wounded or frantically throw bombs and even planes over the ship’s side to prevent further tragedy. McCain left them behind and went down to the hangar-bay level, where he briefly helped crew members heave some bombs overboard. After that, he went to the pilot’s ready room and watched the fire on a television monitor hooked to a camera trained on the deck.
McCain has never been asked to explain why he claims that the Zuni rocket struck his plane. If a bomb or bombs subsequently fell from McCain’s plane as he has said, it seems to strongly suggests pilot error, and if a bomb or bombs did not fall from his plane, it suggests rash disregard for important facts in his accounts of the accident.
There is plenty more about this story that raises questions about McCain’s truthfulness and judgment. In the first hours after the fire, he apparently did not claim to have been injured. New York Times reporter R.W. Apple, who helicoptered out to the ship the day after the tragedy and sought out McCain as the “son and grandson of two noted admirals,” never mentioned him being wounded, although he reported on him more than on any other crew member. This would be an odd omission on Apple’s part if McCain indeed had been wounded, given that service wounds are usually highlighted in such reports during wartime. McCain’s own father, after seeing his son several weeks later, sent a letter to relatives and friends about the fire saying, “Happily for all of us, he [John] came through without a scratch.”2
A week after the fire, McCain made a statement in which he said that when he was on the hangar deck he noticed that he had a wound on his knee and small shrapnel cuts in his thigh and shoulder. He was not treated in sick bay, however, and he tells a story in “Faith of My Fathers” that seems to be at variance with the facts. He writes that he went to sick bay to have his wounds treated but when he got there, a “kid” who was “anonymous to me because the fire had burned off all of his identifying features” asked him if another pilot in the squadron was OK. When McCain replied that he was, the “kid” said “Thank God” and died before McCain’s eyes. McCain said that experience left him “unable to keep my composure,” and that is why he left sick bay without being treated.
Lt. j.g. Dave Dollarhide witnessed that encounter because he was in sick bay, having broken his hip escaping from his plane, which had been immediately to the left of McCain’s when the blaze started. Dollarhide knew McCain and also the “kid,” a young man whom McCain knew well because he was his own plane captain, Robert Zwerlein, who was terribly burned when the first bomb exploded on the ship. Notwithstanding McCain’s dramatic account of witnessing someone die before his eyes, Zwerlein did not die then but instead was evacuated to the hospital ship USS Repose, where he expired three days later. On the basis of Dollarhide’s account, if McCain left sick bay without being treated it was not because someone died before his eyes.3
McCain’s actions after the fire show a determination to exit the ship as quickly as possible. When New York Times reporter Apple finished gathering his notes on the fire, McCain boarded a helicopter with him and flew to Saigon. Given that fires still burned on the ship and some of his fellow airmen were gravely wounded and dying, McCain’s assertion that he left the carrier for “some welcome R&R” in Saigon has a surreal air. Apple, now dead, said nothing in his news reports about inviting McCain to leave the ship, although he did report talking to him in Saigon later that day. McCain does not mention receiving permission to leave the still-burning ship. Merv Rowland, a commander and chief engineering officer of the Forrestal at the time of the fire, told me that he had not known that McCain left the ship within 30 hours of the fire and that he found this “extraordinary.” Rowland added that only the severely wounded were allowed to leave the ship and that no one, as far as he knew, would have been given permission to fly to Saigon for R&R. McCain’s quick flight off the Forrestal meant that he missed the memorial service for his dead comrades held the following day in the South China Sea.
Not long after McCain left, the Forrestal set off without him on its somber voyage to Subic Bay in the Philippines, where it would undergo initial repairs. He rejoined the ship a week later when it was docked at Subic Bay. There he gave an official statement and asked for a transfer to the aircraft carrier Oriskany.
Apple filed two stories about McCain’s time in Saigon. Apple’s first story said: “Today, hours after the fire that ravaged the flight deck and killed so many of his fellow crewmen, commander McCain sat in Saigon and shook his head. ‘It was such a great ship,’ he said.”4 Apple’s second story was filed three months later, just after McCain was shot down over Hanoi. In that story Apple wrote: “It was almost three months ago that the young, prematurely gray Navy pilot was sitting in a villa in Saigon, sipping a Scotch with friends and recalling the holocaust that he had managed to live through. He was John Sydney [sic—spelling is Sidney] McCain, 3rd, a lieutenant commander. The day before, he had watched from the cockpit of his Skyhawk attack plane as flames suddenly engulfed the flight deck of the Forrestal, on which his squadron was based. ‘It’s a difficult thing to say,’ he remarked after a long time. ‘But now that I’ve seen what the bombs and the napalm did to the people on our ship, I’m not so sure that I want to drop any more of that stuff on North Vietnam.’ ”5
The record suggests that after McCain left the burning Forrestal for the greater ease of Saigon, he saw his Navy career as being in jeopardy. Soon, he went to London, where his father, Adm. John S. McCain Jr., was stationed as commander in chief of the United States Naval Forces in Europe. Sen. McCain has written little about the fire, and his book does not mention any conversations with his father about bombs dropping from his plane on the Forrestal or his leaving the ship. However, it is difficult to imagine that he did not discuss the tragedy and his own personal difficulties because, by McCain’s own account, his father had intervened on his behalf before. After seeing the admiral in London, McCain went to the French Riviera, where he spent his nights gambling at the Palm Beach Casino.6
McCain’s book skips over the weeks after the Forrestal fire, but Timberg says that the young naval officer spent the months of August and September 1967 “unsure of his status.” Following McCain’s application for a transfer to the Oriskany, his orders were delayed, and in September he returned to his home in Jacksonville, Fla. There, an old friend, Chuck Larson, saw a change in McCain: The pilot was discouraged about his future. McCain confided to Larson that he might have to get out of the Navy because, in the words of the Timberg biography, “his past had become a burden” and “whenever he joined a new outfit he was dismayed that his reputation for mayhem had preceded him.”7 Aside from any questions about his Forrestal actions, McCain had, in his short Navy career, crashed two planes and flown a third into power lines in Spain because of, as he put it, “daredevil clowning.”8
The investigation into the Forrestal fire was in the hands of Adm. Thomas Moorer, chief of naval operations and a close friend of McCain’s father. (Their friendship was why Moorer would personally convey the news to Adm. Jack McCain three months later that his son had been shot down in Vietnam.) Moorer gave the investigation to Rear Adm. Forsyth Massey, who handed in his report on Sept. 19, 1967. McCain received orders to report to the Oriskany on Sept. 30.9
During the period when John McCain was shot down over Hanoi on Oct. 26, 1967, less than a month after being assigned to the Oriskany, recent events—the Forrestal fire and his possible role in its growth, misgivings about “dropping more of that stuff” on Vietnam, his decision to leave the stricken ship for some “R&R” in Saigon, anxiety about his naval career—were fresh in his mind. What had been going on in McCain’s life may cast light on some of the decisions he made later as a prisoner of war. While he was a POW, he famously refused to be released early, electing not to leave his comrades behind.
After McCain made his first run for the presidency, in 2000, Gregory Freeman wrote a book on the fire, “Sailors to the End.” Freeman’s 2002 book appears to be mostly reliable, but it ignores key parts of the official report and hews closely to McCain’s claim that the Zuni rocket struck his plane, not Fred White’s, causing the two thousand-pound bombs to drop into the burning fuel.
In addition to following McCain’s misleading narrative of the Zuni rocket accident to the letter, Freeman published an uncredited hand-drawn sketch purporting to show the Forrestal deck just before the fire. In that sketch, the plane in which White died is stripped of White’s name, even though Freeman printed the names of the other pilots near McCain’s plane and told their stories. The only place that White’s name appears is at the back of the book in a list of those who died. In the narrative of “Sailors to the End,” Fred White’s name is conspicuous by its absence.
After erasing White, Freeman’s sketch presents an incorrect line between the original position of the Zuni rocket and McCain’s plane, instead of showing the actual line that the rocket took in striking White’s plane. This sketch alone will cause the unwary reader to believe there is visual evidence to support the claim that the Zuni rocket hit McCain’s plane, not that of White, the pilot lost on the Forrestal and now airbrushed out of history, at least in Freeman’s book.
McCain wrote a glowing blurb for Freeman’s book, drawing and all, calling it a “riveting account.” The presence of his enthusiastic blurb on the book cover raises another issue: Freeman relied heavily on interviews of survivors who were close to the Forrestal events but he never quotes McCain directly or mentions having requested an interview with him. Because his book pushes McCain’s misleading and unsubstantiated account, Freeman should make public whether McCain, or people around him, played a role in the genesis of “Sailors to the End.”
“I’m an old Navy pilot. I know when a crisis calls for all hands on deck,”10 Sen. McCain said recently in explaining why he was temporarily suspending his presidential campaign and calling for postponement of the first debate between himself and Democratic candidate Barack Obama, which eventually occurred as scheduled. At the one time in his life when he was faced with a real crisis on deck, we now know, McCain left the crisis to others and descended to safety below. As to the question of whether the first bomb to explode on the Forrestal dropped from his plane through pilot error, it is not reassuring to hear him describe his attitude as a Navy pilot toward safety procedures. He told reporters during his 2000 presidential campaign that his motto in those days was: “Kick the tires and light the fires [jet engines]. To hell with the checklist. Anybody can be slow.”11
McCain has gone much further than most veterans in using his military experiences for political purposes, but he has not allowed his military records to be released, save for the list of his awards and medals, all of which were given only after he became a prisoner of war. It is appropriate that he release those records before the election. If his actions contributed to the magnitude of the Forrestal disaster and if he left the burning ship under less than honorable circumstances, that information should be available to voters as they choose their next president. At the very least, John McCain should be asked to explain his actions in the summer of 1967 and tell American voters why he has repeatedly given a false account of Robert Zwerlein’s death.
Bibliography
1 John McCain with Mark Salter, “Faith of My Fathers,” 177-181; Robert Timberg, “John McCain: An American Odyssey,” 71-74.
2 R.W. Apple Jr., “Start of Tragedy: Pilot Hears a Blast As He Checks Plane” (New York Times, July 31, 1967) 1; McCain, 181.
3 James Caiella, “Hell 1051,” Foundation Magazine (fall 2003) 52.
4 Apple, ibid.
5 R.W. Apple Jr., “McCain’s Son, Forrestal Survivor, Is Missing in Raid” (New York Times, Oct. 28, 1967) 1.
6 Timberg, 75-76.
7 Ibid.
8 McCain, 155-156, 159, 172.
9 Ibid., 192, 182.
10“Prepared Remarks by John McCain to the Clinton Global Initiative,” Boston Globe, Sept. 25, 2008, online.
11Roger Simon, “Honest John, on the Loose: With McCain, you get the good, the bad, and the angry,” U.S. News & World Report, posted Sept. 19, 1999.
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I'd like to comment on McCain's refusal to leave his commrades behind when he was a POW. If he had left he would have been automatically deemed a traitor. There are strict rules about what order POWs come home and if he would have left then... it would have labeled him forever a traitor as it was NOT his turn to come home. So NO he wasn't being a hero by staying he was trying to cover his worthless backside!
The article above proves he is a LIAR! He is inept! He abandoned and refused to help the wounded and dying men on the USS FORRESTAL! He did NOT show leadership qualities! He didn't do his duty! He is responsible for loss of life on USS FORRESTAL! He ran to daddy to be bailed out again! Lied about being injured! He likes to embellish his accounts with lies in order to make himself look like a hero!
Real hero's don't toot their own horns! Real hero's don't use their hero status for political gain! Every time I turn around McCain uses his fake hero status campaigning! When he makes an error or mistake he uses it even more. In fact the fake hero status has kept the media at bay. Shame on them for not having the guts to tell the the REAL truth about John McCain!
I have been studying John McCain's POW experiences and have read accounts by senior ranking officers at the prison camp as well as other witnesses and have come to the conclusion that he is indeed a traitor to his country.
I have also studied how he mistreated and abused the POW and MIA families from the Vietnam War and I can safely say I have nothing but complete and utter disgust and contempt for the man. A man whom boasts that he is a war hero for political gain when in reality he is is nothing but a traitor to his country and to his fellow servicemen.
His Military files and POW records MUST be unsealed BEFORE the election! and if there is any justice in this world he should be court martialed as a traitor!
John McCain's smear tactic's against Barack Obama just backfired in his face!
Keith Olbermann blows McCain and Palin out of the water with an Expose on McCain's connection to Ayers and Rashid Khalidi.
McCain has a CLOSER relationship to Rashid Khalidi than Obama ever had, and oh my goodness John McCain is connected to Ayer's too! GASP! ;-)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/27464383#27464383
This is my worst nightmare - McCain winning by just 1 vote lol
Be sure to have your audio on it's a real riot!
Makes for a humorous way to remind everyone of just how important their votes are!
http://www.cnnbcvideo.com/index.html?nid=4x04TEhceoVHjLCzoHcQfzc3NTcyNTM-&referred_by=13025094-uz8bzAx
After viewing it... click on the orange button to the right to customize it and send to all of your friends and family!
Obama is not taking money from one and giving it to another. This is what McCain wants you to believe.
All Obama is doing is cutting taxes for the majority which just happens to be the middle class. You know... the ones who have been paying an unfair amount of taxes over the past 8 years to support the rich and wealthy Republicans!
You know the same rich and wealthy whom made tons of money off of the middle classes backs via the Wall Street CEOs... the same rich and wealthy whom made ridiculous amounts of money thru the McCain backed de-regulations put into motion in financial institutions and in the oil futures.
McCain is a hardcore supporter of De-Regulation!
The Rich and Wealthy Republicans are DE-REGULATORS!
De-Regulation is the reason for this financial crisis!
Read My Lipsticked Lips...
The Rich and Wealthy REPUBLICANS are the folks to thank for the financial mess that we are in right now!
Remember Phil Gramms, whom just happens to be filthy rich, McCain's buddy and economic advisor whom called us a nation of whiners. He and Enron made a ton of money as did speculators when he created and pushed de-regulation. He's the one you can all thank for the $4.00 - $5.00 per gallon for gas fiasco. Maybe you heard of the Enron Loop hole! After it got passed his wifey pooh received a real nice cushy job at Enron. Gasp! Can anyone spell Corruption?
Obama is simply not going to let Bush's Welfare Tax Plan for the Rich and Wealthy Republicans continue. He is rolling it back to what we had in the Clinton era. Which by the way was a prosperous time. In the past 40 years the ONLY administration to actually have a balanced budget instead of a deficit is Bill Clinton's administration. In fact he had a SURPLUS!
Ronald Reagan ... A republican president promoted the Progressive Tax system on this video and he also berated the republicans as well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFhoM6xZpEQ
Teddy Roosevelt also a republican president ALSO believed in the Progressive tax system!
Both Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt have been listed by McCain as being his hero's. So by damning Obama for the progressive tax system by calling him a socialist aka redistributor also means his hero's Ronald Reagan and Teddy Roosevelt were also socialist and redistributors.
The Republican party, John McCain and Palin will go down in history as an absolute disgrace for their fear, hate, lies, racist, smear tactics in 2008.
From a must read article titled "McCain's Military Record Shows He Is Unfit To Be President" by Hidell at:
At the Naval academy McCain graduated at the bottom of his class 790th out of 795.
McCain crashed 5 airplanes during his career. Anyone else who would have crashed at the rate McCain did would have been kicked out of the service.
His father was an admiral which made him invincible. untouchable if you will...So McCain continued to blunder his way through his military career until he was finally shot down.
McCain was responsible for lives lost on the USS Forrestal.
It appears that McCain's incompetence played a significant part in increasing the severity of the incident when, in a frightened scramble to get out of the aircraft, he pressed the bomb release button by mistake, dropping a bomb from his aircraft onto the burning fire. It detonated one minute later, killing many people. After escaping from the aircraft, McCain shamefully left the deck and hid below, then, within hours, flew to Saigon for some "R n' R" while funeral services were still being arranged for his shipmates.
He never returned to the USS Forrestal and for good reason. His former crew mates despised him and blamed him. He HAD to be trasferred to another ship!
Despite McCain's constant reminder to us that he is a war hero, he has gone out of his way to hide his military and POW records. In fact his records have been classified and sealed. He also pushed through laws that prevented records of all POWs from being available to the public in an effort to guarantee the saftety and protection of his own from public viewing.
We hear all about his 28 medals but he plays down the fact he only put in 20 hours of combat time. 20 hours hardly qualifies you as being experienced in military affairs. The average grunt on the ground put in 7,000 hours making McCain's mere 20 hours laughable. And yet his chest is covered with 28 medals for doing nothing more than our brave men did on the ground. Just another instance of John McCain riding on the coattails of his Father the Admiral.
The question of whether he was ever tortured has been one of the biggest debates of all time. If the senior ranking officers at the POW camp had been allowed to process their formal charges stating John McCain was a collaborator and a traitor there would have been a court martial to answer this question once and for all. But that was to never be. The government refused to prosecute anyone coming home from vietnam... because they wanted the public to perceive them all as hero's.
The ONLY reason John McCain wasn't court martialed for being a traitor is because the Government gave him a "Get Out Of Jail Free Card"
There are two ways to look at the torture claims. Either McCain is lying about it – in which case he’s unfit to be president; or he’s telling the truth – in which case he’s unfit to be president. Why? Because torture is one of those experiences, like being abused as a child, which inflicts permanent psychological damage. Many of America’s veterans from the Korean and Vietnamese wars suffered lingering psychological trauma from their wartime experience. The rate is even higher among former prisoners of war (POWs). One study found that 85% of POWs who had been tortured experienced Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Was McCain one of the 85% or was he one of the lucky 15%? There is every reason to suspect that McCain suffered deep-seated psychological trauma while a prisoner of war. He himself says that he was “reduced to an animal” and “broken”. He signed confessions – “I am a black criminal and have performed the deeds of an air pirate” - and made broadcasts denouncing his own country and its actions in the war. In fact, so great was his propensity to be friendly with his captors that, in the camp, McCain acquired the nickname of “Songbird”.
Bear in mind that McCain’s medals were awarded for resisting torture. Yet where was the resistance? Perhaps it is this gulf between the perception and the reality of John McCain that explains why so many Vietnam veterans groups openly despise him. However much pity we might feel for a prisoner of war subjected to such intense pressures, the record is clear : McCain was no war hero. He was, rather, a coward, an incompetent, a collaborator and a traitor.
Please click the link below to read the full story.
http://www.forandagainst.com/articles/McCain_s_Military_Record_Shows_He_Is_Unfit_To_Be_President
The stakes are too high!!!
We cannot afford to put a psychologically crippled man in as President.
Nor can we afford to put a traitor in as President!
Also Please click this link to read about the veterans who despise McCain!
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_12_16/ai_61487324
I just found this video of Jack Cafferty and just had to share it with you. I got a real kick out of his complete disgust and utter contempt he displays for the ignoramus Sarah Palin. lol
Love how Jack Cafferty doesn't mince his words. He is a real straight shooter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8__aXxXPVc
Get this... The self proclaimed reformer cough crook cough John McCain, yeah you know the guy who says he's not apart of the washington politics as usual scene has just been outted as a typical corrupt washington politician that pals around with sleazy, greedy, corrupt lobbyists. Go Figure! ;-)
Boy you can't get any more Mavericky than that now can you. lol
The more I google and read about John McCain the dirtier I feel. Any who... back to the Sleazo Lobbyist William E. Timmons, Sr. whom John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, he is also registered to lobby in 2008 for a wide range of companies and trade groups, including the American Petroleum Institute, the American Medical Association, Chrysler, Freddie Mac, Visa USA, and Anheuser-Busch just to name a few.
His registrations include work on a number of issues that have become flashpoints in the presidential campaign. He has registered to work on bills that deal with the regulations of troubled mortgage lenders Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae; a bill to provide farm subsidies; and bills that regulate domestic oil drilling.
On top of that it has recently been reported that Timmons has been lobbying for Saddam Hussein for 5 years. This slime ball stood to make 45 million from just 1 of the deals. Timmons claims to be a naive angel but that doesn't wash... no one and I mean no one works with and for giants in the industry without knowing something is a stinking pile of doo doo when they step in it! Beside he had Tongsun Park working in lock step with him and this character is well known for his notorious background. Timmmons knew exactly what he was doing and tried to lie to the Feds about it.
To read all about Timmons lobbying for Saddam Hussein click the link below.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/mccain-transition-chief-a_n_134595.html
What does this say about John McCain?
It reflects his true colors, he can try to slap lipstick on that pig all he wants it's still a pig. He supposedly wants us to believe that he is honest, that he is a reformer, that he is mavericky and yet he keeps proving to us time and time again that he associates with sleazy crooks, out right criminals, unsavory and unethical characters.
His own actions have been unethical and corrupt... I'm citing the keating 5, the sweetheart land deals etc.
He has the morals of an alley cat in heat!
He protesteth too much whilst pointing fingers at others... I suspect it his unsuccessful attempt to cover up his own illegal activities.
His life is full of stupid blunders, extra marital affairs, lies, uncontrollable anger, corruption, greed and ties to the kind of sleazy, unsavory people you wouldn't bring home to momma or admit to knowing to all of America... and it is all well documented and all over the internet. The internet is rich with detestable filth on John McCain. He can run but he can't hide!
Don't take my word for it google McCain with various terms added such as mob ties, sweetheart land deals, traitor, racist, enemy to POW families, corrupt, terrorists, nazi, scandal, against veterans, against women and children, etc etc and you will find tons of information on John McCain that he don't want you to know.
His Father and Grandfathers Reputations have protected John McCain by preventing the truth from coming out about all of his illicit activities in his life. Cindy's money gives him even more of a cushion from facing the consequences of his actions. Karma's a bitch John... trust me one day your past will catch up with you.
The resurrection of racism and incorporating it into his campaign is totally unfathomable and unforgiveable. There is nothing that this man won't do to serve himself.
He is unfit to be a senator muchless a president!
From Washington Post Investigation - An Article titled "Exclusive: Verizon and AT and T Provided Cell Towers for McCain Ranch" BY JAMES V. GRIMALDI
Both Verizon and AT and T gave Cindy McCain a portable tower free of charge after John launched his presidential campaign.
This may be unethical considering one it was free and two it's no secret that John McCain has tons of ties to both Verizon and AT and T.
Ethics lawyers said Cindy McCain's dealings with the wireless companies stand out because her husband is a senior member of the Senate commerce committee, which oversees the Federal Communications Commission and the telecommunications industry. He has been a leading advocate for industry-backed legislation, fighting regulations and taxes on telecommunication services.
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and his campaign have close ties to Verizon and AT and T. Five campaign officials, including manager Rick Davis, have worked as lobbyists for Verizon. Former McCain staff member Robert Fisher is an in-house lobbyist for Verizon and is volunteering for the campaign. Fisher, Verizon chief executive Ivan G. Seidenberg and company lobbyists have raised more than $1.3 million for McCain's presidential effort, and Verizon employees are among the top 20 corporate donors over McCain's political career, giving his campaigns more than $155,000.
McCain's Senate chief of staff Mark Buse, senior strategist Charles R. Black Jr. and several other campaign staff members have registered as AT and T lobbyists in the past. AT and T Executive Vice President Timothy McKone and AT and T lobbyists have raised more than $2.3 million for McCain. AT and T employees have donated more than $325,000 to the Republican's campaigns, putting the company in the No. 3 spot for career donations to McCain, according to the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
"It raises the aura of special consideration for somebody because he is a member of the Senate," said Stanley Brand, a former House counsel for Democrats and an ethics lawyer who represents politicians in both parties.
I read a pro McCain supporter imply that the secret service requested it as a Presidential Candidate would need it for security purposes.
I find this completely unplausible, John McCain doesn't live in Arizona. His wife lives there alone. He lives in Washington. John McCain and Cindy normally get together only a few weeks out of the whole year, they lead separate lives. And during the campaign she travels with him however he spends virtually no time in Arizona.
Considering his position on the Senate commerce committee and his deep ties with both telecommunication companies, receiving funds from both telecommunication companies, it does appear to be a breach of ethics that requires further investigation.
To read this article in it's entirety please click the link below.
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/10/exclusive_verizon_gave_cell_to.html
Any other senator would have been tarred and feathered, and facing criminal charges for what he is doing. This article documents years and years of John McCain's corruption and crime perpetrated in his home state of Arizona!
From an article titled "McCain Pushed Land Swap That Benefits Backer" by Matthew Mosk of the Washington Post.
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- Sen. John McCain championed legislation that will let an Arizona rancher trade remote grassland and ponderosa pine forest here for acres of valuable federally owned property that is ready for development, a land swap that now stands to directly benefit one of his top presidential campaign fundraisers.
After reading the entire article, In my not so humble opinion what John McCain is doing is unethical, illegal, and is definitely a conflict of interest. McCain and his cronies have been making a huge bundle of money for many many years illegally. There should be an immediate investigation. He should be expelled from the Senate and disqualified as a Presidential candidate!
To read the article in it's entirety please visit this link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050803494_pf.html
An Article titled "McCain Secured Sweetheart Land Deals for Lobbyist & Fundraising Pals"
Also discusses McCain's unethical Land Deals!
He got a sweetheart deal for his fundraising pals at Suncor, a local land developer. With McCain's support, the feds paid between 2 - 4 times its appraised value
Suncor donors are among McCain's biggest campaign contributors, lobbyists & fundraisers. They have raised over $225,000 since 1999. Steve Betts, who was McCain's former campaign lawyer, is now the President of Suncor. Betts got that job a few weeks after the windfall land deal where the government paid Suncor millions more than the land's appraised value.
To read more about it please visit link below
http://cranegirl.newsvine.com/_news/2008/09/06/1833894-mccain-secured-sweetheart-land-deals-for-lobbyist-fundraising-pals
It's definitely within Obama's grasp. McCain’s biggest opposition comes from those who know him, and the Arizona political establishment knows him all too well.In Arizona John McCain is viewed as a carpetbagging opportunist. They even refer to McCain as an elitist congressman and senator.
With accolades like that I'll wager McCain will be constantly looking over his shoulder as the gap between him and Obama closes in the polls. I must ask why there isn't a noticeable groundswell of volunteers backing him on his own "home" turf in Arizona? Obama's office in Phoenix, Arizona on the other hand is rockin and rollin with the massive support of Phoenix Arizona volunteers! Obama's Arizona offices are bustling with supporters while John McCain's Arizona offices look like ghost towns... I can see the tumble weeds blowing by and the dust building up on McCain's unsold yard signs.
Arizona's lack of support and excitement for John McCain during this Presidential Campaign speaks volumes. When Republican Rob Haney (state party chairman in Arizona) goes door to door to stump for candidates and asks them to rate John McCain on a scale from 1 to 10. “The people who don’t know much about politics rate him a 9 or 10,” says Haney, “The people who know what’s going on rate him a 1 or a 2, or ask, Can I rate him a minus?” McCain did score big in one survey the GOP group did: Reportedly 59 percent of the Republican activists named him an “unacceptable candidate.”
Fall Out from The McCain and Palin Racist Hate Speeches
McCain and Palin's "Hate Talk Express" has had a deeply profound effect on one of Arizona's businessmen. A local Arizona restaurant owner, Mike Terrell whom supports Obama and just happens to be black came to work one day only to find that it had been defiled by graffiti of hate and racist remarks including the N word, White Power, and swastika's etc.While he has pride and is not a quitter and has already poured in a quarter million into his restaurant he is considering closing his business because he fears for the safety of his family.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1091434-%E2%80%9Cn%E2%80%9D-word-swastikas-spray-painted-on-arizona-restaurant-the-hate-talk-express
This is some funny stuff... Palin is now being called a rogue and a Diva by McCain Advisors!
Apparently trouble is brewing between Palin and McCain!
She's not playing nice and has bit the hand that fed her.
Palin is stabbing McCain in the back and looking out for herself!
One of McCain's adviser said this "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else"
Wowzers!
Even the McCain Aides / Advisors are getting into the act pointing fingers of blame at everyone but themselves... some are even working on their resumes as I type this. lol
Looks like Palin and his aides are auditioning for the made for tv movie "Mutiny on the McCain"
McCain's campaign has officially imploded, it is OVER for John McCain!
Geesh... he is running for president and can't even manage a campaign or his VP or his Aides. How embarassing for him!
Johnie Boy to save face and future embarassments perhaps it's time to drop out.
For more information about John McCain's Sinking Ship please visit this link... it's a riot!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
John McCain likes to refer to us as My Friends in all of his speeches. However I often wonder whom he is talking to since it appears that he is no friend to women, children and families.
Some examples of this would be the time (Several Months Ago) when he publicly called his wife a trollop and the C word.
Or the fact that he views gender based pay discrimination as an urban myth and opposes any legislative efforts to close the gap. This year he skipped a vote in the Senate on the Fair Pay Act, which would have strengthened women workers' ability to sue employers who practice pay discrimination.
Or the fact that McCain has long opposed legislation that would have helped prevent unintended pregnancies and reduce the need for abortions.
Or the Fact that McCain has repeatedly voted to cut or end various children's health programs. He even went so far as to say President Bush made "the right call" in vetoing an expansion of healthcare for kids.
Or the fact that McCain voted against requiring insurance companies that cover prescription drugs like Viagra to also cover prescription birth control equally.
Or the fact that McCain voted to cut or eliminate funding for the UN Population Fund. The Fund provides poor women in other countries information and access to birth control.
Or the fact that He has voted 19 times against raising the minimum wage.
Or the Fact that McCain voted to terminate the Title X family planning programs that give women a wide range of health care services, everything from birth control to breast and cervical cancer screenings to hormone replacement therapy.
Or the Fact that McCain ONLY believes in the failed abstinence-only sex education programs. He doesn't believe young people should be taught scientifically sound ways to protect themselves from exposure to sexually transmitted diseases or prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Or the fact that in regards to pro choice McCain has voted 125 times against the right to choose during his career. McCain says he supports overturning the decision Roe v. Wade decision. He is even against abortion in cases of rape, incest and incidents where pregnancy could cost the mother her life.
Or the Fact that in1990, McCain was the deciding vote upholding the first President Bush's veto of the 1990 Civil Rights Act, which addressed discrimination against women and minorities. His lifetime rating from civil rights groups is an "F."
Or the Fact that John McCain voted against new funds for law enforcement programs designed to protect women from domestic violence such as the Office of Violence Against Women and the Center for Missing and Exploited Children. He also opposed grants to programs that would help children that are exposed to domestic violence, citing such funding is wasteful.
Or the Fact that McCain voted against funding for Violence Against Women Act twice.
Or the Fact that McCain voted against legislation to expand State Children’s Health Insurance Program coverage to low-income children and pregnant women at least six times.
Or the Fact that McCain voted 3 times against school breakfast and lunch programs for low-income students.
Or the Fact that McCain has voted against college tuition tax credits, against tax credits for teachers seeking further certification, and against federal funding to recruit and train new teachers nationwide to reduce classroom sizes.
Did you know that McCain is rated as America's WORST senator for children! The Children’s Defense Fund Action Council gave Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) a 10 percent rating - the worst rating in the entire U.S. Senate.
It is not hyperbole to say that John McCain is in lockstep with George W. Bush.
The Who once sang: "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
A vote for McCain is a vote for 4 more years of Bush!
