They both crashed in Vietnam, but, Captain McCain found it necessary to victimize others?

John McCain needs to publicly apologize and set the record straight.


POW HOME: Lt. Col. Edison W. Miller, right, is shown Feb. 16, 1973 arriving home at Mirimar after more than five years in a Vietnamese POW camp. At left is Maj. Gen. Herman Poggemeyer.


MEDALS: Edison Miller who served in the Marines for more than 24 years displays the Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart and other medals he was awarded for his service.
JEBB HARRIS, THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER


POW mate calls McCain 'liar' over 'turncoat' charge
Irvine resident Edison Miller is shown center, third from left, with a group of POWs meeting a delegation. He was shot down over Vietnam on Oct.13, 1967 and spent over 5 years as a POW.
COURTESY EDISON MILLER


Edison Miller is noted on the same page as the former Captain John McCain (click here). A US Captain had no right to ridicule any other downed pilot.

..."He lied about me," said the Irvine resident, who retired as a Marine Corps colonel shortly after the war. "The attacks on my character and integrity are totally without merit or justification. I did stand up and say the war was wrong. I would speak against the war, but I never spoke against my country. And I gave up no secrets."... (click here)

They were both POWs. This is inexcusable. I guess McCain needed to feel he was still captain of something.

Vietnam failed because it was an illegal and immoral war.

There were a lot of people against the Vietnam War and some were even killed on our own soil because of it (click here). Nixon ordered armed National Guard troops onto college campuses to kill innocent and unarmed people exerting their rights to freedom of speech, assembly and self-expression as citizens. The problem was a corrupt President !

Vietnam Veterans Against the War (click here).

West Point Graduates Against the War (click here)

Believers Against the War (click here)

Seeking out and knowing the truth regarding circumstances that engage USA soldiers in war and opposing the Executive Branch that violates that trust isn't a matter of being less a patriot.

It is a matter of being the greatest of patriots !

Is it over? For today, at least.

Russia didn't invade Georgia to turn around and simply slap the wrist of the arrogance of Georgian aggression. Russia is in it for the long haul and it won't give up its position with Georgia for some time.

I believe Moscow is asking for the resignation of the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. It sounds like a fair trade for peace. In this way, a new president of Georgia an be chosen that will better get along with Russia to calm the redrawn borders that was once Georgia's to claim.

In all honesty, the UN proposal is high handed and villianizes Russia, again.

It's like playing poker at this point. The Europeans and Americans were completely caught off guard by the clash and now seeks to neutralize the circumstances to 'regroup' and place themselves in a better position to retaliate.

I don't think that will be possible.

The USA has too many 'war irons' in the fire and nuclear exchanges are simply out of the question unless Bush/Cheney get really stupid. The attitudes and platitudes of the UN is simply unrealistic and an insult to a sincere outcome to any expectations.

Medvedev raises two conditions for peace in Georgia (click here)
12 Aug 2008 11:22:46 GMT 12 Aug 2008 11:22:46 GMT Source: Reuters
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Moscow to promote an international plan to end hostilities, called for fast efforts to create a timetable to ensure all forces returned to previous positions.
"We can discuss the question of a definitive settlement if two conditions are met," Medvedev, who earlier announced a halt to military operations, said in the Kremlin before meeting the French leader.
"First, Georgian troops should return to their initial position and be partly demilitarised. Second, we need to sign a binding agreement on non-use of force."
Sarkozy, trying to adopt an even-handed approach to the conflict, welcomed the announcement of a Russian halt to military operations....


...The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has preceded his boss to the region. France last night circulated a draft resolution at the UN security council calling for an "immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities and the complete withdrawal or Russian and Georgian forces" before August 7.
Other elements of the plan call for a humanitarian corridor and for a European peacekeeping force to replace the Russian "peacekeepers", which have been deployed in South Ossetia since 1992. Eager for a lifeline out of the mess it has unwittingly created, Georgia has accepted the proposal.
But the Russians are not biting. They are unhappy that the resolution, in the words of their ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, is "too soft" on Georgia, and contains "no reference to Georgian aggression or Georgian atrocities"....