This is pretty scary given McCain's comments on Georgia:

[hedgehog]

"The date was Oct. 26, 1967. I was on my 23rd mission, flying right over the heart of Hanoi in a dive at about 4,500 feet, when a Russian missile the size of a telephone pole came up—the sky was full of them—and blew the right wing off my Skyhawk dive bomber. It went into an inverted, almost straight-down spin."

Note he said Russian, not Soviet.

How about this nugget?

"As you may know, back in 1954, the North Vietnamese had a big hand in toppling the French Government in Paris because the French voters had no more stomach for the Vietnam war their Government was waging at the time. That was the way the North Vietnamese won in 1954—they didn't win in Vietnam."

http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/01/28/john-mccain-prisoner-of-war-a-first-person-account.html?PageNr=1

[Art_from_Ark]

1. The 1954 battle of Dien Bien Phu

was a prelude to the Tet Offensive 14 years later. Did the North Vietnamese in 1968 also have a hand in "toppling" the Johnson administration?

[hedgehog]

2. I'm concerned that the mantra that "we lost in Viet Nam because the people at

home didn't have the guts to tough it out" is going to be transferred to Iraq.

[cliffordu]

4. Yep.

[cliffordu]

3. That little tie-in to the perpetual hardon McCain has for the Russians

Needs to be pounded into the skull of every voter in the US.

He was tortured and imprisoned by a surrogate of the Soviets in his mind.

This makes him entirely too dangerous.