McCain: War Hero or Scumbag?

Many of us have heard rumblings about McCain’s experience as a POW not being as heroic as he and his handlers would have us believe.

As Douglas Valentine reported at Counterpunch:

… according to one source, McCain’s collaboration may have had very real consequences. Retired Army Colonel Earl Hopper, a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, contends that McCain divulged classified information North Vietnam used to hone their air defense system.

Hopper’s son, Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Earl Pearson Hopper was, like McCain, shot down over North Vietnam. Hopper the younger, however, was declared “Missing in Action.” Stemming from the loss of his son, the elder Hopper co-founded the National League of Families, an organization devoted to the return of Vietnam War POWs.

According to the elder Hopper, McCain told his North Vietnamese captors, “highly classified information, the most important of which was the package routes, which were routes used to bomb North Vietnam. He gave in detail the altitude they were flying, the direction, if they made a turn… he gave them what primary targets the United States was interested in.” Hopper contends that the information McCain provided allowed the North Vietnamese to adjust their air-defenses. As result, Hopper claims, the US lost sixty percent more aircraft and in 1968, “called off the bombing of North Vietnam, because of the information McCain had given to them.”

The MSM and Obama both continue to portray McCain as a national hero, because of his POW status. Well I’m sorry to demur. I protested the War in Vietnam and I've protested the War in Iraq. The War in Vietnam was even more egregious. Our aim was to bomb North Vietnam into the Stone Age. Our airborne “Glory Boys” wrecked havoc on the civilian population of North Vietnam. They are no more heroes than were members of the German Luftwaffe in WW II. I know we want to pay homage to the grunts on the ground who were bamboozled into war. But McCain was a cold-blooded mass murderer. If he was a POW collaborator as well, then he sucks at both ends - both a prick and an ass-hole. Let the evidence be scrutinized and let a verdict be rendered. I for one have no qualms exposing John McCain for the duplicitous liar that he is. No quarter should be given when it comes to the likes of this bastard.