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So in what should be no surprise to anybody it turns out that John McCain
is
really no different
than say Rudy Giuliani outside of military service of course but I'll get
to
that in awhile. He
is a charlatan, a philanderer, a hypocrite, a panderer and a man whose
judgment and hair trigger
temper should not allow him to occupy the oval office, that is if anything
resembling a change is
really to occur. McCain has always ****trayed himself as this great
incorruptible figure who would
stand up against the special interests, reign in the torture state and
work
in something
resembling bipartisan****p that would somehow defuse the festering hatred
that has transcended the
'my team vs. your team', win at all costs corrosiveness that has created
factions in America that
could one day equal the kind of generational hatred that is passed down in
Europe and far less
exceptional places than God's other chosen land the USA. He was a
maverick,
he was different and
even Mr. Republican himself the great Rush Hudson Limbaugh III who is the
personification of
every single element of the GOP hates his guts but then the story broke.
The damned liberal New York Times in typical style as the propaganda arm
of
the great commie
liberal conspiracy that has been doing it's damned best to over throw this
great and mighty
country had the audacity to launch a dastardly smear campaign against
McCain
with a story of a
potential affair with a telecommunications lobbyist that was really so
much
more than the lurid
sort of lemming food *** scandal that the American idiots regularly wallow
in. It really isn't
about *** at all but about corruption, about the great John McCain
wallowing
in the slop with
lobbyists, lying to cover it up, bringing pressure on the Times to
withhold
the story until after
Super Tuesday and then there is that ugly little thing about playing games
with the campaign
finance laws. So despite the frenzied attempts by the neocons to change
the
subject to the damned
liberal New York times over Manchurian Mac's alleged ***ual dalliances the
far bigger bombshell
in the story is that the 'straight talk express' is nothing more than
another corrupt business as
normal whore house shuttle. There undoubtedly will be more on this story
of
corruption, lies and
the public relations spin that has allowed for the canonization of yet
another of the scoundrels
who have so thoroughly contributed to the moral rot of the empire, you can
count on that.
What the Times story does to a larger extent is to catapult the propaganda
and allow for a look
at McCain's serial dishonesty, his fervor for war and his veracity as a
'war
hero'. Put quite
simply, any man who comes out in favor of preserving the Bush-Cheney
junta's
dictatorial right to
use water boarding, a torture method so foul that it was used by the
masters
of the Spanish
Inquisition while trying to parlay his own past as one who was tortured
into
political power
while playing up his victim status as a POW who was also re****tedly
tortured
is amoral, cynical
and exploitative. A ****trait of a career charlatan is only slowly emerging
although the signs
have always been there back to his involvement with the Keating Five
scandal
and running up to
his hijacking of the Iraq war and occupation as his hallmark issue stating
that despite the
obvious facts that 'stuff was getting better' when the carnage raged and
the
bodies stank in the
streets, rotting and being eaten by packs of starving dogs outside of the
Green Zone. There was
that ridiculous stroll through that market with Lindsay 'five rugs for
five
bucks' Graham with
nearly half the ****ing army in tow that was exposed as so much stagecraft
during that now famous
60 Minutes segment last spring and McCain's political aspirations appeared
to be on life sup****t.
But that was before the Surge and the Vichy Democrat's surrender on
efforts
to stop the war that
they lied about in order to be given control over Congress in November
2006.
McCain was suddenly
off the ropes and back in business again.
And like Flintstone with "Gazoo" every time that McCain found himself in
trouble on Iraq he just
invoked "General Petraeus" and was out of any jam and his symbiotic
relation****p with Joe
Lieberman which went over well with the same high rolling Jews that fund
the
campaigns of those
of both parties who are acceptable to the neocons as well as his ****lling
for the American
Enterprise Institute put Insane McCain back in the game again. He used the
wizardry of a master
in getting out in front with the game plan to incinerate everything that
moves within 1000 miles
of Israel which of course makes the Raptureheads pee in their
undergarments
in anticipation of
their tele****tation while the world immolates. But the "Surge" isn't
working, it has all been one
gigantic bait and switch in which taxpayer money is buying time by paying
off Sunni insurgents
not to fight Americans. That dirty little deal along with the ethnic
cleansing have more to do
with the reduction of violence along with the hermetically sealed media
than
any real political
success. It's all to buy time so that dirty little **** up in Mesopotamia
doesn't play havoc with
the election or any of the two chosen neocons who would be warmonger in
chief, McCain and Hillary
Rodham Clinton. And if McCain is so brazenly lying about his holier than
thou bull**** about
being different and above corruption you really have to wonder how much
else
of his tailor made
for mass consumption by the moronic, television addicted lemmings is also
more of the same
bull****. Could he also be lying about Vietnam?
Let's talk about Nam, that nasty little quagmire in the American
subconscious always waiting to
be sprung like a bouncing betty whenever it is politically op****tunistic,
we
are still fighting
that ****ing war and will continue to fight that ****ing war until we as a
nation are ready to
collectively acknowledge the ac***ulated weight of all of our military
interventionist sins and
to seek atonement. That John McCain can continue to trade on his Vietnam
record as he runs his
campaign on the promise of more war for the rest of all of our lives even
if
it bankrupts us and
rapes the futures of those who have yet to even be ****ing born. Now I
have
a lot of problems
with this great narrative that McCain has constructed for himself about
being this great war
hero, first let me say that there is absolutely nothing ****ing heroic in
dropping bombs on
civilians and McCain himself has come out and admitted this when
questioned
during interviews, he
correctly called himself "a war criminal" during another 60 Minutes
interview back in 1997.
The Democrats and the more flaccid spined liberals out there with their
pet
issues snap to
attention when it comes time to bestow their platitudes on the great and
almighty war hero John
McCain who will happily continue to send young men and women to their
deaths
if and when he snags
the keys to the war machine. I have always found this sort of deferential
treatment to be not
only pathetic but self-defeating as well, the quisling Dems to use a
s****ts
analogy are all too
happy to spot their opponent a two touchdown lead before they even take to
the field for the
opening kickoff. This is an area where I am flummoxed especially after the
treatment that was
given to John Kerry (a foofy haired elitist doofus who actually was
something of a war hero) when
he was savagely swiftboated by a Karl Rove operation back in 2004. Of
course
Kerry also came out
against the war in his now legendary winter soldier hearings that peeled
back the flags from the
faces of the armchair patriots and the deniers which was and to this day
is
still a big taboo in
a country that bathes in the blood of the innocent that are murdered by
the
war machine that has
made death out top national ex****t. It is far easier to decry Kerry for
statements such as:
"They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears,
cut
off heads, tape
wires from ****table telephones to human genitals and turned up the power,
cut off limbs, blown up
bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fa****on reminiscent
of
Genghis Khan, shot
cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the
country side of South
Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very
particular ravaging
which is done by the applied bombing power of this country."
Glorifying a man like McCain for whistling Dixie and then bombing the ****
out of people who he
didn't even have the guts to look at when they were sucking in jellied
fire
with their dying
breath as a hero while vilifying Kerry is so truly Amerikan. McCain
saluted
the flag, did time in
the Hanoi Hilton where according to who you believe received favorable
treatment and then he made
anti American propaganda videos of the same sort have carved a scarlet
letter of "treason" onto
the forehead of Jane Fonda for the last three and a half ****ing decades
not
to mention every
person who speaks out against our great wars of conquest rather than to
just
be a God kissed
patriotic American who is content to watch television, go shopping and be
a
productive little cog
in the murderous machine of industrialized murder that is our grand
stinking
capitalist empire of
rot and death.
John McCain is no war hero, he is a war criminal that is plain and simple
and in addition to
being a war criminal he is also by definition a terrorist for committing
terrorist acts against
unarmed civilians and no amount of hand wringing fake moralizing is ever
going to overturn that
ugly and rancid little fact. War IS terrorism and no man who praises war
as
a way of life as does
McCain is nothing other than a terrorist himself. Consider the irony of
that
particular statement
for a minute and the now institutionalized phony war on terror that has
brought the war, eternal
war home to America as our way of life. None other than that flaming
leftist
Patrick J. Buchanan
acknowledges that war is terror in relation to the bombings of Japan that
would bring about an
end to World War II and spawn the post war era of as Gore Vidal calls it
"perpetual war for
perpetual peace". Buchanan despite the blanket discrediting he receives
both
by the pathetic mess
that passed for the left these days and the neocon right is actually spot
on
about many things in
these horrible days of a rotting empire and he asks the question: "But if
terrorism is the
massacre of innocents to break the will of rulers, were not Hiro****ma and
Nagasaki terrorism on a
colossal scale?"
The dropping of Fat Man and Little Boy and whether it was ultimately
necessary against a broken
enemy or was merely an opening gambit in the Cold War will be debated
until
the end of our days
but the bombing of Hiro****ma and Nagasaki will always be interpreted by
most
as necessary steps
to end a long, cruel and far too bloody war and to spare even more
American
casualties. I can
even see the validity of this argument although I am not a convert but
these
were only two
events, albeit massive in the systematic destruction and the breaking of
the
will of the Land of
the Rising Sun. Regarding the bombing of Japan an excellent resource would
be Errol Morris's
excellent do***entary the Fog of War during which he interviews at length
former Secretary of
Defense and Viet Nam war architect Robert McNamara who was Rumsfeld before
Rumsfield in his
arrogance. The film while not depicting the slaughter on the ground
offered
a glimpse into the
methodology of industrialized mass murder. General Curtis LeMay,
McNamara's
superior and the
commander of the Twenty-First Bomber Command that devastated the Japanese
Home Islands in the
late days of the war plays a prominent part. In the film McNamara explains
his role in the
incendiary attack by chillingly reducing it to the banality of number
crunching as to the
potential casualty tally. LeMay, who was savagely lampooned in Stanley
Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove
as General Jack D. Ripper who kicks off nuclear Armageddon is featured in
actual film clips that
are among the most interesting parts of the movie.
In a precursor to modern cor****ate number crunching the bombing run
efficiency was maximized to
the point where stripped B-29s were sent in flying so low that they
literally reeked of burning
flesh, a good and short although militaristic account on LeMay and the
bombing has been written
by Victor Davis Hanson and entitled The Right Man, this piece is featured
in
the World War II
compilation called No End Save Victory, a pretty good book of essays that
you could likely pick
up cheap online. The ruthless efficiency of the incendiary bombings even
had
LeMay himself to
comment that "I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as
a
war criminal".
On the nights of March 9 & 10 in 1945 Tokyo was subjected to an incredible
incendiary bombardment
that destroyed sixteen square miles of the city, boiling asphalt and
cooking
flesh. Although the
true number will never be known it is estimated that nearly 100,000 were
killed, most incinerated
and most civilians including women and children and the helpless elderly.
The fire consumed the
city structures that were mainly built out of wood and the heat according
to
Nicholas Von Hoffman
as referenced in Pat Buchanan's Where The Right Went Wrong "boiled the
water
in lakes and ponds,
cooking those who fled to safety there like human lobsters" But this is
always the way that it is
in war isn't it? General LeMay was correct, the victors are never the war
criminals and never the
terrorists, the infamy as well as the true costs of aggression are not
ultimately paid by the
warmongers but suffered by the poor bastards who just happen to live under
the rule of rogue
governments or those that otherwise fall into disfavor with the most
powerful of nations. The
truth is that America has a long history of employing and glorifying war
criminals, Lyndon B.
Johnson, McNamara, Henry Kissinger, Donald Rumsfeld, Ronald Reagan, Bill
Clinton and both George
Bushes were the pros but John McCain is a rising star who with his
star-crossed past and maniacal
zeal to wage war could yet challenge every one of them when it comes to
racking up the body
count, and he already has kills on his personal ledger.
Considering how McCain has been right up there with putting his seal of
approval on George W.
Bush's torture state despite the alleged hell that he endured while a POW
not only makes the
story itself suspect but any man who has undergone that sort of torture
and
who comes out in
defense of torture is a goddamned hypocrite and is unfit for any sort of
high political office
let alone that of Commander in Chief.
John McCain's free pass as a strait shooting war hero needs to be revoked
for it is now apparent
that he is neither.
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