Guest Post by Chuck Baldwin
Maverick Republican, Donald Trump, has been under intense pressure from the GOP establishment for his off-the-cuff remark about Senator John McCain (R-Arizona). In a televised interview, Trump said, “[John McCain] is a hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.”
Predictably, establishment Republicans immediately called Trump just about every dirty name in the book. Lindsey Graham called him a “jackass.” Rick Perry said the comment made him “unfit” to be President. Mitt Romney said Trump “shot himself down.” (Not hardly! Trump is the clear front runner of all the GOP presidential candidates in most polls.) But, clearly, the Republican establishment is frustrated with Trump’s popularity–and for good reason.
Donald Trump is scorching the GOP for its support of illegal immigration, and he is scorching it for its support of incessant foreign wars. Trump said, “We spent $2 trillion in Iraq, $2 trillion. We lost thousands of lives, thousands in Iraq. We have wounded soldiers all over the place, thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers. And we have nothing. We can’t even go there. We have nothing. And every time we give Iraq equipment, the first time a bullet goes off in the air, they leave it.” Amen!
And he is scorching them BIG TIME by calling into question the GOP’s 2008 standard bearer. Specifically, he has dared to tell the truth about the miserable record of John McCain’s treatment of America’s veterans.
In refusing to apologize for his remarks about Senator McCain, Trump righty said, “The reality is that John McCain the politician has made America less safe, sent our brave soldiers into wrong-headed foreign adventures, covered up for President Obama with the VA scandal and has spent most of his time in the Senate pushing amnesty. He would rather protect the Iraqi border than Arizona’s.”
While most everyone has criticized the second part of Trump’s statement (“I like people who weren’t captured”), hardly anyone has dared to broach the first part of the statement: “[John McCain] is a hero because he was captured.” That statement is an absolute fact.
John McCain rose to become one of America’s most powerful senators and became the Republican Party’s nominee for President in 2008 mostly on his Prisoner of War (POW) status. Absent his POW history, McCain would no doubt have lived his entire life in relative obscurity. It usually takes more than simply being a veteran or being the son of a Navy admiral or even being a POW to make one obtain famous hero status. How many other POWs do you know that have achieved McCain’s political power and influence?
Alabama’s Jeremiah Denton was a POW who truly endured intense torture at the hands of the enemy and who became one of our finest U.S. senators. And there was never the first hint of dishonorable conduct or scandal or accusations that Denton used his war record for personal profit. I had the privilege of meeting Senator Denton a couple of times, and the thing that struck me most about the man was his deep and genuine humility. The same cannot be said of John McCain.
John McCain’s POW record has been shrouded in controversy from the very beginning. Many independent journalists and military veterans have accused McCain of being America’s version of “Tokyo Rose.” They offer convincing evidence (or at least credible postulations) that McCain was NEVER tortured, that he received special treatment by his captors, and that he actually willingly participated in anti-America propaganda, in much the same way that Tokyo Rose did in the Pacific during World War II.
One Vietnam veteran who was publicly critical of John McCain was my friend Jack McLamb. McLamb served nine years in secret operations in Cambodia and other nations before going on to become one of the most highly decorated police officers in Phoenix, Arizona history, winning Police Officer of the Year twice before taking a role as a hostage negotiator for the FBI.
McLamb said of McCain, “I know a lot of Vietnam veterans and a few POW’s and all the POW’s that I’ve talked to over the years say that John McCain is a lying skunk.
“He never was tortured–they were there in the camp with him and then when he came in….he immediately started spilling his guts about everything because he didn’t want to get tortured,” said McLamb, contradicting the official story that McCain only offered his name, rank, serial number, and date of birth.
“The Vietnamese Communists called him the Songbird, that’s his code name, Songbird McCain, because he just came into the camp singing and telling them everything they wanted to know.”
McLamb also said, “The POW’s said that McCain made 32 propaganda videos for the communist North Vietnamese in which he denounced America for what they were doing in Vietnam.
“They have these sealed now, our government has these sealed, we can’t get to it, they have it classified. In truth the POW’s hate John McCain.”
There are many similar reports about John McCain. I suspect that Donald Trump is familiar with these reports. Here are a few of them:
1 – Report one.
2 – Report two.
3 – Report three.
Reports note that former American POWs such as Col. Ted Guy and Gordon “Swede” Larson, who were held in the same communist prison as McCain, have gone on record saying that they are very skeptical about McCain’s claims of torture.
Another former POW, Philip Butler, a man who was also imprisoned with McCain, is more sympathetic to the man, saying that he had probably been tortured early on in his captivity and made no reference to McCain’s alleged anti-America propaganda charges–but was emphatic that McCain was unqualified to be President. Butler firmly said that he would NOT vote for McCain because McCain was a hot-tempered man who had become a Bush-like warmonger and who had used his POW status for personal and political gain. Remember, this is from a fellow POW who actually likes McCain.
Regardless of McCain’s real war record (the U.S. government has sealed the record, so we will likely never know the truth about the matter), it is a fact that, as one of the most powerful senators in Washington, D.C., John McCain has done little to assist America’s veterans. In fact, McCain is commonly regarded as being one of the strongest opponents to the investigation and rescue of POWs left behind in Indochina following the Vietnam War.
While a member of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs (1991-1993), McCain referred to POW/MIA family members and activists as “whiners,” “vultures,” and “the lunatic fringe.” Although the committee concluded that there were indeed American POWs left behind in Indochina, McCain voted to normalize relations with Vietnam without any accountability for America’s missing servicemen. In so doing, McCain ignored a letter written by fellow POW Captain Eugene “Red” McDaniel and co-signed by 50 former POWs which asked him to not support normalized relations with Vietnam until the POW issue had been resolved.
In 1996, McCain opposed the Missing Service Personnel Act (MSPA) as being “unnecessary” and “burdensome.” He also helped to amend the MSPA to remove criminal liability, which POW/MIA families knew was a serious blow to obtaining meaningful accountability on behalf their loved ones still languishing in Southeast Asia.
John McCain has spent most of his senatorial career promoting an open border with Mexico, a path to citizenship for illegal aliens, and incessant foreign wars; facilitating the miserable performance of the Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA); and covering up evidence of Americans left behind in Indochina. No wonder so many people have referred to McCain as “The Manchurian Candidate.”
By telling the truth about John McCain, Donald Trump has hit the rawest of nerves within the Washington establishment (and New World Order globalist elite). Without a doubt, John McCain is one of the globalist elite’s political darlings. A favored son of globalist puppet-masters such as Henry Kissinger, John McCain has been a water boy for the New World Order from the time he entered politics. Guilty of corruption as one of the infamous “Keating Five,” John McCain was given a mere “slap-on-the-wrist” and allowed to continue his pernicious ways.
And McCain’s “war hero” status has made him virtually untouchable–until now.
My mind is far from made up in regards to supporting Donald Trump’s presidential candidacy. But, so far, Donald Trump has been willing to courageously confront the Washington establishment in an in-your-face, no-holds-barred manner that we have not seen in a long, long time. And if Trump accomplishes nothing else in his presidential bid except exposing establishment sycophants like John McCain, I, for one, am excited that he has entered the race.
Bingo, the Donald hits it out of the park again.
Today i read that Hispanics are divided in their opinion of The Donald. No shit. Just like American Cubans oppose normalization of relations with Castro, American latinos oppose illegal immigration. Cesar Chavez led the movement to stop the bracero program, a source of competiton and labor exploitation. Mexicans are not particularly fond of American born Hispanics, sure, they like our tourist money and in the case of smugglers, our ability to cross the border without a problem.
You will see more Hispanics rooting for Trump despite the media storyline that latinos are deply offended by El Donald. We love gringos, the WSJ noted many years ago that the most mediocre of white actors and singers could make a decent show of success across the border. No shit. If they look white, even white looking Arabs, we love them; Salma Hayek, Jaime Camil, Carlos Slim..
The Donald is saying shit we have wanted to say for ages but couldn’t because who would believe us? The crime you see is but a sample of the shit we have seen over the years but looked the other way because it makes us all look bad. Mexican machistas without the American regard for gentle manners (women and children first), a sense of fair play or respect for the time honored ‘line’. Mexicans live by a ranchero code memorialized in Jose Alfredo Jimenez’ song, Caminos de Guanajuato:
“No vale nada la vida/La vida no vale nada/Comienza siempre llorando/Y as llorando se acaba/Por eso es que en este mundo/La vida no vale nada/Bonito Len Guanajuato/Su feria con su jugada/Ah se apuesta la vida/Y se respeta al que gana/Alla en mi Leon Guanajuato/La vida no vale nada”
It says – life is not worth a thing, it starts out crying and it ends up crying…in my lovely Leon, Guanjuato, one bets hits life and he who wins is respected.
No wonder Mexicans can’t line up, following rules and respecting the rights of others is a foreign concept, winning is all. Might makes right.
Why is it that more immigrants land in jail? They still see women as chattel to be raped at will and beaten when they offend the macho, killed when they cheat, used and abused.
Not all hispanics conform to this image but enough do that it makes the rest look bad. When one fucks up, the rest say, “Por uno pagan todos” everyone pays for one fuck up.
We American born don’t say that, we just look the other way, thinking, fucking asshole. We called them mojados in Texas. They make us all look like mojados – wetbacks. In California, American born Hispanics have put some distance between them, refusing to learn Spanish or Mexican ways. They refer to immigrants as Mexican or by the more polite term: Spanish, as in – ‘he’s Spanish’.
Regardless of wha the media may say, we love gringos, especially monied gringos. The word is out about a certain monied man in Jersey who pays well and feeds you well while you work for him. We hear Trump is the same way and look forward to meeting him and competing for the wall contract.
BTW, McCain has taken money for years from the Mexican lobby to promote immigration reform, he hasn’t done a damn thing. A fine president this do-nothing legislator would have made.
My wish for the Rep. candidate is Allan West, but the subject is Trump. I don’t agree with all his issues, especially Snowden.
My list of people/org’s that should be honored with the highest medal in the U.S. :
Ed Snowden – exposed Gov’t ignoring Constitution
Wikileaks – exposed Global Warming ‘Big Lie’
Kelley Thomas – exposed the CopFucks getting away with murder (horrific)
Aaron Swartz – freedom fighter for a free internet; bully gov’t took him down
Mfore, but temporarily forgot; my apologies.
McCain could have been the Vietnam equivalent of Audie Murphy but he’s has disgraced himself as a man and as a politician since his return from Hanoi. He political career certainly should have ended for his participation in the Keating 5/ Lincoln Savings and Loan scandal as it did for three of the 5 Senators involved though he and, surprise, surprise, Korean war pilot and astronaut, John Glenn managed to use their ‘hero’ status to survive the scandal and continue their corrupt political careers.
I note that perhaps our ‘greatest Vietnam war hero, Randy “Duke” Cunningham, our top ‘Ace’ in that war resigned from Congress and spent 8 years in prison for the sort of corruption McCain was involved in with Keating but Cunningham was just a conservative Republican back bench Congressman not a ‘maverick’ with insider status in Washington like McCain and Glenn. So being a ‘real’ hero does not and should not exempt a politician from legitimate criticism and McCain is worthy of 55 gallon drums of abuse being poured on him for his rotten political career. Even his gaining the Republican nomination for president in 2008 was built on trickery and insider manipulation such as making Michigan and other states open primaries where Democrats could cross over and vote for the Republican candidate many real Republicans could not stand! For the only time in my life I left my ballot blank for the office of president that year! I just could not bring myself to vote for McCain.
Koko, he doesn’t have any congealed issues, just a couple of insider revelations and a disdain for the empty suits in Washington. He doesn’t need anything else but to take the fight to the mountain if it won’t come to him.
McCain ran as war hero, Trump might run as maverick celebrity. Hmm, McCain the toady already tried the maverick routine.
Trump is a pitchfork rabble rouser in search of a mad scientist. He should lead the crowd up to the wicked castle where some weird shenanigans are going on; Capitol Hill will do.
The VC knew what they were doing by keeping John “the admiral’s son” alive. They knew he would fuck over America in the future inside America. Something the VC could never accomplish.
My entire adult life, Maverick, has been a hero and a patriot. Then that fucknut Trump comes along and shits in my Easter Basket.
Wow! Well said Chuck Baldwin!