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Subject: John McCainb - President of the U.S.???? You had best read this article thoroughly before "voting"

James Wickstrom <jamespwickstrom@yahoo.com> wrote:

I strongly suggest you read the entire text below relating to John McCain and a bit of his history and involvement as a "Senator" to STOP investigations into his involvement as a POW in Vietnam.  McCain is no damn good and I have known this information for many years as given to me by my friend, Colonel William P. Gale who passed away in the late 1980's.  He told me that McCain received 'special privileges' and cooperated with the enemy as a POW, while other captured Officers were tortured and beaten to death for refusing to cooperate with the enemy. JPW

Richard Niemela ricniemela@earthlink.net (Retired Full Col. U.S.A.F.)

These issues will rise into a frenzy, I suspect, if little McCain gets the nod..There is more, probably worse....jrn

With the recent endorsement of Senators McCain and Clinton by the New York Times as their favored for Americans to "choose" from as president in '08 and Senator McCain's version of Beach Boys tune Barbara Ann: "Bomb Bomb Bomb.... Bomb Bomb Iran" and his acceptance of U.S. troops in Iraq "for 100 years" I thought this may be of interest to concerned, objective & independent-thinking Americans.  Hillary's "positions" and history should be a foregone conclusion to even the most naive and ignorant.
 
An excerpt from a December, 1992 article titled John McCain:The Manchurian Candidate appearing in the U.S. Veteran Dispatch by Ted Samply concerning Senator (now presidential candidate) John McCain well worth the read to know the man and his history.
 
Serious allegations of collaboration with the enemy by McCain as a POW for better treatment are made within the article Here's the link: 

John McCain: The Manchurian Candidate
  http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/cin_tedmancurin.htm
 
Excerpt with photo below: (if it comes through, if not click the link for it and many more)
 
(starts here) As as example, the Senate Select Committee has never followed up on the explosive testimony of former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin, who testified, under oath, that the KGB interrogated U.S. POW's in Vietnam.
 
 
Gen Kalugin stated that one of the POW's worked on by the KGB was a "high-ranking naval officer," who, according to Kalugin, agreed to work with the Soviets upon his repatriation to the United States and has frequently appeared on U.S. television.
 
Whether this is true or not it certainly begs to be investigated and, like it or not, Sen. John McCain fits the description, and his behavior, also like it or not, raises serious questions. The fact that he is a United States Senator should not be a factor, alas, "The Manchurian Candidate" possibility.
 
When it comes to matters of national security and the welfare of every man, woman and child in the United States, there should be no sacred cows, and it must not be forgotten that Sen. McCain was being considered for higher office, prior to his numerous appearances on national television defending his involvement in the Savings and Loan scandal.
 
In November of 1991, when Tracy Usry, the former chief investigator of the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, testified before the Select Committee, he revealed that the Soviets interrogated U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam.  Sen. McCain became outraged interrupting Usry several times, arguing that "none of the returned U.S. prisoners of war released by Vietnam were ever interrogated by the Soviets."  However, this was simply not true and Sen. McCain knows that from first-hand experience.
 
Col. Bui Tin, a former Senior Colonel in the North Vietnamese Army, testified on the same day, but after Usry, that because of his high position in the Communist Party during the war, he had the authority to "read all documents and secret telegrams from the politburo" pertaining to American prisoners of war. He said that not only did the Soviets interrogate some American prisoners of war, but that they treated the Americans very badly.
 
Bui Tin, who indicated he favored a normalization of relations between the U.S. and Vietnam, also offered the committee his records concerning his personal interrogations of American POW's.
 
  A WARM HUG FOR THE ENEMY                    Sen. McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he moved forward to the witness table and warmlySen. McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he moved forward to the witness table and warmly embraced Bui Tin as if he was a long lost brother. a long, lost brother.

"Was t"Was that hug for Bui Tin, a Vietnamese official responsible for the torture of some American prisoners of war, a message 'please don't give them my records?' " one activist questioned at the time.re of some American prisoners of war, a message 'please don't give them my records?'" one activist questioned at the time.
In any case, many of McCain's fellow Vietnam War POW's were aghast, not to mention former POW's of World War II and Korea, who could, only in some sinstances after decades, forgive but never forget the inhumanity of their captors scertainly not to the point of embracing them.Ws were aghast, not to mention former POWs of World War II and Korea, who could, only in some instances after decades, forgive but never forget the inhumanity of their captors--certainly not to the point of embracing them.
Shortly thereafter, as a direct result of Sen. McCain's lobbying of other Republican Senators, Usry, a distinguished Vietnam veteran, and all other members h of the Minority Staff, who had participated in the POW/MIA investigations, were abruptly fired. Republi