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10 August 2010 By Jeff Gates In June 1963, Jack Kennedy insisted on inspections
of Israel’s nuclear facility. He was dead by November.
He died trying to create a Middle East free of nuclear
weapons. John McCain is alive. Or so it’s reported—though
looking pale, elderly and frail. What’s he doing about
the nuclear threat in that volatile region? Answer: aggravating it at every opportunity.
Remember the WMD rationale for invading Iraq? Now he’s
selling Iran. Yes, he spent 5-1/2 years as a prisoner of war. His
fellow prisoners walked out gaunt. Check out the
photos of McCain when he was released. As the fair-haired, blue-eyed son of a U.S.
admiral, the North Vietnamese saw him as a wartime
prince in captivity. In truth, he was a last-in-his-class brat at the
Naval Academy best known for crashing planes and still
getting plumb assignments. He rode the family name to
privilege and fame. And parlayed his lineage to better
treatment than other POWs. During his formative years, he was the party boy
son grandson of a fabled WWII admiral. Three months before he became a POW, his admiral
father helped Lyndon Johnson cover-up an Israeli
attack on the USS Liberty that killed 34 Americans.
Six months later, Admiral John S. McCain, Jr. was
named commander of all U.S forces in the Pacific. Loyalty Challenged Colonel Ted Guy, John McCain’s commanding officer
while a POW, wanted charges lodged against him for
treason on his return. McCain received a Silver Star for conduct in 1967.
That’s also when he made a series of damaging
broadcasts for the North Vietnamese. Here’s an
assessment by Colonel Earl Hopper a Vietnam-era
intelligence officer: “Within five or seven days after being captured
McCain made a deal to trade medical care in exchange
for highly classified military information including
specific details of the package routes for bombing
North Vietnam. He also told them the primary bombing
targets. We lost 60% more aircraft and men because of
the information McCain gave to the North Vietnamese.
After about a month things had gotten so bad that we
called off bombing North Vietnam.” Does John McCain have good cause to keep secret his
conduct while in captivity? You betcha. The facts conflict with Brand McCain, the electable
war hero and fabled maverick in the political lineage
of Ronald Reagan and Barry Goldwater. Has he been imbedded in a culture of lies for so
long that he can no longer tell the truth? As a frequent travel companion of Senator Joe
Lieberman, McCain has long been loyalty challenged.
Call it too much time in Tel Aviv. The Zionist state specializes in waging war “by way
of deception.” John McCain sold us the invasion of
Iraq on phony intelligence, much of it “fixed” around
an Israeli agenda. How that happened remains for him to explain. Out
here in the summer heat of Arizona, we’re still
waiting. An explanation without an apology should be
impossible. But if anyone can do it, McCain can. The McCain Lineage McCain’s grandfather was the real deal. A dedicated
and widely admired four-star skipper, he died within
days of the end of World War II. By all accounts, McCain’s father was also a
top-notch commander. Then came his complicity in the
cover-up of the Israeli murder of Americans during Tel
Aviv’s Six-Day Land Grab. That Israeli assault on a U.S. Navy vessel left
more than 200 casualties. After Admiral McCain’s
complicity in the Lyndon Johnson cover-up, the McCain
family began to deteriorate. As a U.S. Senator, John McCain sustained the lie
when he endorsed a cover-up book written on the USS
Liberty by a part-time bankruptcy judge and Israeli
operative living in Florida. Knowledgeable veterans are outraged that the murder
of Americans by a purported ally is being covered up
decades later by the same public official who gave
Order of Battle information to an enemy and made for
them dozens of damaging radio broadcasts. U.S. intelligence monitored the McCain broadcasts
(roughly 35 total). That’s why he was denied a
promotion while in captivity—contrary to the norm for
POWs. McCain says he gave only useless information. Yet
American losses soared with the enemy’s awareness of
the altitude, direction and primary targets of U.S.
attack aircraft. No one can say for certain how they would respond
to the conditions McCain faced. He concedes that he
cracked. So don’t be too quick to judge. Yet the key point remains: who would dare build a
war hero façade on the deaths of his fellow naval
aviators? How many Americans were shot down—aided by
information provided by this purported hero? At age 74, McCain has done enough damage. He may
yet sell us on an invasion of Iran though Israel, not
Iran, has a nuclear arsenal. Maybe that’s why John McCain remains alive. Kennedy
is still dead. |