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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:38 AM
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I'm watching "Rescue Dawn" and thinking about what John McCain went through
and first thought to myself "Damn, that guy has been through hell and back", and I have the utmost respect for him.

Then I started thinking, which apparently not something freepers do.

What kind of person, who went through that kind of torture, would send our guys to war, at the same time promoting our own torture, and pretend our guys should be treated any better?

John, I have a great amount of respect of you, but please, bow out. You weren't meant to be President. You served your country, as have I, and you've sacrificed much in the name of honor, but John, you aren't it.
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TwilightGardener Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:40 AM
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1. McCain does not support torture. However, he has no problem
with troops dying for nothing, which is even worse. He's emotionally unstable, and should not be allowed to carry the "football".
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JackintheGreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:44 AM
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4. He's come out more strongly AGAINST torture
than too many of our milk-toast democrats
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Anouka Donating Member (712 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 02:29 AM
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8. What's sad is that, the feeling he's unstable is bipartisan........
sad for him, that is. Maybe there's something to it. maybe not. either way, hope he doesn't get the Republican nod.
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:42 AM
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2. Less John McCain, More Sleep...
That's my prescription :thumbsup:

:P

And, I agree.
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:44 AM
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3. light
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bicentennial_baby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:46 AM
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5. That is simply fantastic...
and B&W too :)

I dated a pro Photog for several years...You've got some serious talent.
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ClayZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:48 AM
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6. Winston Churchill said:
“A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.”
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 12:51 AM
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7. Winston Churchill probably said that in the safety of his own bunker
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Anouka Donating Member (712 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 02:30 AM
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9. Please don't diss Churchill. n/t
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Byronic Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 06:37 AM
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10. Churchill was once a prisoner himself
He escaped, but he was a prisoner himself during the Boer War.

Plus, anybody who knows anything about the life of Winston Churchill knows that his own personal safety was never his concern.

He used to drive people mad with his reckless behavior. Insisting on watching dog-fights from a rooftop for instance.

There was nothing 'bunker' about Churchill.

He was no Dick Cheney
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ileus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:26 AM
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11. A load of repubs consider him a turn coat democrat...he's the best they offer that's for sure.
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Red Zelda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 09:51 AM
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12. That makes one of you
McCain is a complete phony. He is the most dangerous of the nazis seeking the repuke nomination.
The cowardly insect should have died in Vietnam. Fuck him all to hell.
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hayu_lol Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 10:03 AM
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13. Don't ever forget that McCain was one of the Keating Five, the group...
in Arizona who actually kicked off the Savings and Loan scandal for which we are all still paying. Neil Bush was involved at the same time in the Silverado Savings and Loan debacle.

McCain lived for 6 years in the Hanoi Hilton. During those 6 years, a lot of very good men died. Why did he live? Did he capitulate to the enemy?

McCain is just another right-wing crook.
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Byronic Donating Member (379 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-13-08 06:44 PM
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14. Please stop it.
Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 06:45 PM by Byronic
Attacking a man's war record is what the Republican slime machine does.

We're better than that.

Disagree with McCain on policy. Disagree with McCain on his current principles. But don't attack the man's war record. The evidence seems to suggest that since he was an Admiral's son, that he was offered early release, but refused it.

He was plenty brave. He should be honored for that. He should be eviscerated for his political stance.
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