Great non-partisan response on vetspeak.org by Willie Hager...for full post click here
Mr. Valentine's description of his dad and his buddies shooting at US Aviators while in New Guinea in 1942, the year I was born, is a disappointing and undocumented report of a what I consider to be a for real war crime, if true. Although it is based on heresy evidence, I am tempted to press for an investigation of these allegations, inasmuch as Mr Valentine's dad may have well been shooting at my dad and others who flew close air support missions for the troops on the ground there in New Guinea while in the service of their country. Did they hit and kill anyone? Can anyone truly say?
I had to excerpt this because it the most disturbing part of Valentine's article. He actually seemed to be bragging that his dad witnessed American soldiers shooting at American pilots. That right there destroys Valentine's credibility... he should be ashamed of himself.
[Valentine] seems to believe that presidential candidate John McCain is a war criminal, resulting from his long, and well documented torture as a prisoner of war at the infamous Hanoi Hilton, but that his dad is a political hero. This is the kind of spin that we have all come to call "swiftboating", whether it comes from the lunatic fringe of the neocon far Right, or the dielectic dribble and political correctness of the extreme Left.
Well said. For the record, Willie Hager, was a regional coordinator for Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW). Vetspeak.org is a anti-war, pro-peace veterans group... hardly the folks you'd expect to be swiftly coming to McCain's aid against Valentine's attack. Surely, it would be easier for someone like Hager to keep quiet. Kudos to Hager for confronting a lunatic like Valentine.
UPDATE: More on Swift-boating of GOP presidents and presidential candidates at ModernConservative.com... click here
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