John McCain is no war hero. In 1997 on 60 Minutes John McCain said the following. "I am a war criminal; I bombed innocent women and children".
John McCain and the American pilots like him that flew countless missions over North Vietnam rained down death on civilians and hundreds of thousands of them died. Including many children. I can't imagine why the North Vietamese would have been upset at US pilots, go figure. We torture people now for being born in a certain country and for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. I can only imagine what we would do to pilots that bombed Phoenix and killed thousands of innocent women and children.
They didn’t have to be there. They didn’t have to go. The true heroes in America were the men and women that went to jail or Canada rather than participate in an immoral and illegal war, let alone the killing of innocent people that never attacked us. McCain thinks the Vietnam war was an honorable and justifiable undertaking. It was anything but.
US involvement in Vietnam was initiated when we attempted to help the French regain colonial control over their colonies in Southeast Asia. After the French withdrawal, we attempted to prop up the despotic and corrupt South Vietnamese government. The Gulf of Tonkin resolution was the trigger, it gave the President permission to use whatever force he deemed necessary to deal with Vietnam without first seeking Congressional approval. It was based on a false report about a US ship being attacked by North Vietnamese gunboats and exacerbated by anti-communist hysteria.
It’s a certainty that John McCain, if elected president, will perpetuate this failed and immoral policy of waging unnecessary war. The time to put a stop to US hegemony in pursuit of unconscionable profits for corporate war profiteers is now. John McCain is no hero and should be relegated unceremoniously to the dung heap of American political history.
You cannot blame McCain for fighting a war we asked him to. No matter how you feel about Vietnam, you can't say McCain was the cause and if you were not there, you cannot judge what the soldiers went through. We should be proud of our soldiers no matter what we ask them to do as most of the times they are trying to protect themselves and their brothers. This is not to say there there are horrific things being done to people. Those people should be tried in a court of law. I commend McCain for asking and calling to service in feeling he was going to protect the country (no matter how you feel about the actual reasons which was the government's fault).