So How Many Poor Vietnamese Did McCain's Bombs Kill in 23 Runs?OpEdNews, 9/5/2008
Given all the praise heaped upon McCain, the bomber of Hanoi, this is a natural question - especially for millions of us who remember the inexpressible shamefulness of this genocidal war on the agrarian Asian population of a brutal French colony that suffered Japanese occupation and fought both the Japanese and Vichy French as a U.S. ally;
How many Vietnamese citizens, men, women and children, did McCain's bombs kill or maim during his twenty-three runs?
In his acceptance speech as Republican candidate for the presidency
McCain, referring to his participation in the U.S. war on Vietnam
bragged,
"I have that record and the scars to prove it, and Obama doesn't." McCain told the rapt convention audience and went on to confesses that he broke under interrogation - but did not bother to give the detail of his famous "I am a war criminal," admission.
But hold on. Wait just a decent moment. What of the Vietnamese McCain
was bombing? How good did they have it? Do not the Vietnamese victims
and their grieving families deserve honorable mention at least?
Is it that the "The Greatest country on earth,"
as McCain cried out, has no compassion for the people bombed in their
very own beautiful home city of Hanoi, so humble be it by comparison to
great and powerful America?
Okay skip any body count, just give us a round number of the Vietnamese who the possible future president can be credited with assisting into the next world earlier than they expected while hoping to survived alive - as did their executioner.
And why doesn't the Republican Party thank the family of the Vietnamese man who saved McCain from drowning and then protected him from the wrath of the people he had been bombing just before being shot out of the sky? John McCain failed to even mention the guy in his speech describing only how he parachuted "into a small lake in Hanoi to an angry crowd."
Below, is a relevant article from Mail On Line of the Daily Mail Company of the United Kingdom, (additional reporting: William Lowther, in Washington).
Published October 23, 2008
"How war hero John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life"
In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail; perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant.
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