schmellba99 said:
Gaw617 said:
You can respect McCain for his service and admire him for surviving as a POW and think he was a complete fraud as a politician. Those are mutually exclusive.
There is a reason why McCain was not liked by those that were POW's with him.
He also killed 134 sailors and nearly sank the USS Forrestal when he fired a missle off on deck and it ignighted the jet fuel storage.
He was not responsible for the fire aboard
USS Forrestal. Plenty of criticism for McCain so no reason to lie about him, especially about something like the
Forrestal fire.
McCain flew the A-4 Skyhawk and the aircraft which had a Zuni rocket launch was a F-4 Phantom. The rocket hit the A-4, piloted by Fred White. McCain's A-4 was parked next to White's and was also involved in the fire the rocket started (didn't detonate due to the safety but started a fuel fire) which quickly resulting in some WWII era bombs cooking off.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill