Swedish TV Finds New Footage of McCain Being Released From Vietnamese POW Camp

How conveeeeeeeeeeeeeenient.

Lunatics? Wow.
Regardless how he left, hats off to McCain.
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Forty years later…..
McCain has proven to be incapable of being president
1. his views on the war
2. taxes
3. sarah palin pick
4. low road campaign
5. temperment
6. age
7. don’t know much about the economy
8. voted with bush 90%
9. flip flopped on HIS legislation
10. suspect health conditions.

John Mccains recollections of his treatment as a pow vary a great deal from other senior officers in a camp called the Plantation Did John recive special treatment since he was the son of Admiral Mccain the answer is YES. John McCain had two nicknames while he was a captive of the vietnamese. One the US.Military Intellegence refering to him was SONGBIRD apparently six days after his capture he asked to be treated for his injuries and his captors said yes in exchange for Intellegence information Mccain was immediatly taken to hospital I’ll leave it to your good senses to figure out how he got the name Songbird. His other nick was the prince because he was the son of an Admiral.The enemy belived that he was some sort of royal.

How long until the footage appears in a campaign ad?

Colonel Earl Hopper served 30 years as an Army Airborne Officer spending most of his time as an Intelligence Officer
during the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
Colonel Hopper has devoted his life to uncovering the truth about his son Earl Junior who is Missing In Action since his plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1968.
Colonel Hopper was a founding member and Chairman of the Board of the National League of Families devoted to the return of living American POWs of the Vietnam War.
Patty Hopper, Colonel Hopper’s wife, who specialized in research and analysis of POW related information for over 30 years. She is considered to be a private sector expert in government agency POW data bases, the flow of information, and how it is handled.

How long until the footage appears in a campaign ad?
Posted by: Deep Release
This is free media leaked/found today to coincide with 911 how amazing!
GIVE ME A BREAK!

Omentum stop slurping kool aid. Obama is a joke. Look at what anniversary it is today. Obama can’t handle a lipstick comment and have the decency to apologize or wear his country’s emblem when his constituents are in mourning and you expect him to be a good leader?

I am not interested in John McCain’s years as a POW. There many, many other men that endured the tortures of being a POW and we have not elevated these men to hero status nor do we see them using their POW status as a credential for being president. John McCain served his country as did many others AND as many are doing right now and for that I thank all of them. But I find it completely self serving of John McCain to push his POW status as a credential to be president.

For the Obama lovers, McCain being a POW is a higher qualification for presidency then Obama living in Indonesia as a young child (Obama thinks thats highly relevant for some reason).
McCain talks about his POW experience in relation to running for president in that it shows his judgment (didn’t some candidate say thats all that matters?), he chose country over his own well being. Obama can make no similar claim.
But no the new footage won’t stop the “anti-mccain people” (aka democrat 527′s).

I vote for the top person on the ticket and unlike Obama supporters I am not only interested in Palin. You also assumed I would only vote for McCain. I have look at that matter. When I vote I weigh a variety of issues. For me the cards have stacked against Obama. I am registered independent from a state in which independents cant participate in the primaries. The sort of voter who is Obama’s worse nightmare.

Henry
They said Palin was against the road to no where and that mccain isnt the same as Bush…
You see a patern forming ?

“Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff.” — Barack Obama
Barack Obama making the economy better so you can buy organic produce.

Henry
In McCain’s early interviews he said its his own fault he didnt tuck his arms when he puched out of his jet!!
His said a number of things he said in the same interview the the veit cong treated him well. that they gave him good meals and cigerettes!
Now the story has changed

At the Republican convention Fred Thompson said, “John McCain can’t raise his arms above his shoulders. He can’t salute the flag…” This must be a fake video since it shows John McCain with full use of his arm to salute well above his shoulders.

As a military veteran from a military family who voted for John Kerry in 2004, I am offended by the callow, self-absorbed and insulting dismissals of John McCain’s service and imprisonment in Vietnam. I’m a Democrat; but such moronic comments from Obama supporters make me ashamed of the Democratic Party. A very close family friend spent 7 years in the Hanoi Hilton, until he was captured trying to escape and was tortured to death. Many others also died. Everytime you try to trivialize it, you insult every parent of a servicemember in this country. Dismiss John McCain’s service, and the courage and character he showed as a POW at your own peril in November.

I find it interesting that Obama supporters deny the fact that being a POW for years is something to be honored. even if the situation was reversed I would give reverence to Obama for having been a POW.
The obamabots only know how to attack something and that is why your campaign is losing.
Posted by: A Guy Named Keith | Sep 11, 2008 11:16:47 AM
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He sold out American troops and cost American lives thats nothing to be proud of!
600 other POWS dont think it makes them ready to be president!
McCains code name was SONG BIRD
HE MADE ANTI USA COMUNIST RECORDINGS AND RADIO BROADCASTS !

Omentum, I never said that was the only reason to vote for McCain. I also never said I was voting for McCain.
Obama lost my respect a long time ago. You lost yesterday when he just could not apologize and cried to the media that he was the one who was wronged, when he was the one who said something that was perceived as offensive. Apologize, say you didn’t mean it that way , instead of labeling the people who were offended as Phony rage.Whether he thought it was phony or not, as a LEADER, he should have apologized.
Countless people have had to Obama for remarks that were far more innocent “uppity people” , etc, yet he could not just apologize.
That says a lot to me about his lack of character and arrogance.He seemed like a little b**ch

“At the very least the footage should quiet those anti-McCain lunatics out there who claim McCain left his POW camp in anything other than skinny and fragile condition”.
Why the word “lunatic” in your post?
Nobody should disparage Senator Mccain’s sacrifice. It is he who wore the Shoe who knows where it pinches.
He went through the pain and deprivationn and he is still carrying the scars.
But I feel he has used that Sacrifice to gain political advantages for the past 28 years and I think it is time he moved on.

Dare Nigeria- said But I feel he (Mccain) has used that Sacrifice to gain political advantages for the past 28 years and I think it is time he moved on.
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“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final, fatal role of the young would-be black man. Except the highs hadn’t been about that, me trying to prove what a down brother I was.” Barack Obama
I feel the say way about Obama using his “down brother” stories to gain political advantages and escape criticism for committing a felony. What the hell is a “would be black man” anyway? I am not a would be Latino.

“I am LCMDR John Sidney McCain service number 624787 USS Oriskany.
I was a U.S. airman engaged in crime against the Vietnamese country and people. I bomb their cities town and caused more injury and death for the people of Vietnam. After I was captured I was taken to a hospital in Da Nang where I received very good medical treatment. I was given an operation on my leg which allowed me to walk again and a cast on my right arm which was badly broken when I punched out of my jet. The doctors were very good and knew a great deal about the practice of medicine.
I have remained in hospital for some time now and have regained much strength and health.”
John McCain June 1969
Far different from the story he tell today!

Not only did Obama and Biden both vote for the Bridge to Nowhere, they voted for it twice. The second time, they were given the option of instead diverting those funds to Katrina Relief.

Deb it does not matter if your dad was a POW, and who is he by the way? We may know one another. Does he come to the reunions?
It only makes your comments all the more stupid. Democrat or Republican, the attacks on MCCain POW experience are really reflecting poorly upon Obama supporters. You say stick to the issue but that is a non issue. He was one, he should be commended. It is a part of his identity and you have no right to take that from him or the people who admire him for it.

Deb, I saw him say the food/Paris comment on the tape and he could hardly speak when he said that and was being sarcastic.
Are you so afraid of losing this election that you would mock, that videotape.
Obama supporters are some of the most hateful, angry, race baiting people I have ever seen.

Once again, the newsman pulls double-shift: correspondent for ABC News, press secretary for the McCain campaign.

For those of you who said things along the lines of “what does being a POW have to do with being president?” you should refer back to McCain’s convention speech. He explained in clear and compelling terms how his experiences as a POW influenced the rest of his life and shaped the man he is today, the man who would be president. And for those of you like Deb who disparage his behavior in captivity and dare to use his words spoken in captivity under torture to imply that he was a collaborator or did not have it so bad, shame on you. McCain has not “used” his POW status for political gain– but he has spoken about it because it is essential to understanding his worldview and his attitude toward service and his country.

Deb, Thanks – McCain will be my hero when he stands up for Veterans’s rights and honors the kids who are going to Iraq with a decent GI package – instead of voting itt down. There are many, many VFWs and men who were captured. I sure don’t know about al of them, but my father-in-law considers it a digrace and an insult to the men who didn’t make it out of camps – or where never found – that someone would use this experience for political gain.

Debra which part do you deem wacko ?
Please provide the wacko points
Ill provide the US government documents to prove my point!!
Sorry for the poor spelling this issue gets me angry!

Please Jake, see to it that ABC airs this Swedish film on all it’s newsprograms. Nightline, 20/20, evening news. Thanks for sharing.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN BEFORE HE PICKED PALIN….EVEN BETTER NOW.

PS Barack Obama always pays respect to mccains serivce!
I dont agree with him.. But you cant blame Barack Obama for my feelings and understanding of mccain and his actions!

I often wonder who is the republican nomoniee mccain or palin? seems people are turning out more for her then mccain sad poor mccain this woman cant answer questions from the press cant campaign on her own and pretty much has told lie after lie and to think if they win and something happens to mccain SHES PRESIDENT GOD BLESS AMERICA!!

marylou
McCain supports the new world government/Order not Obama.
So what exactly does your post mean ?

McCains VP’s husband is a member of the Alaskan Independance Party.
She spoke at one of their events THIS YEAR.
The founder Joe Volger said some thing that would make Rev Wright cringe.
Cant wait till this story hits MSM

This happened 40 years ago. SO WHAT.
How about the man today.

One thing McCain stood true to: He said he would make the pork-barrel spenders famous
Sarah Palin is now the GOP nominee for VPOTUS.
The Maverick strikes again!!!!

marylou
she doesnt have an 80% approvale raiting!
Check your numbers babe!

***********May 30, 2007*****************
Before the coruption investergation !
Bush had a high approval raiting to before he lied to the people and his poor choices that have led this nation into the ground!

The positive polling Mondale received when Geraldine Anne Ferraro joined him did not last until November, and they were defeated in an electoral landslide by incumbent President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George H. W. Bush.
History is repeating itself
Obama is already winning even after the best week the republican will ever see (it is over) media don’t want to admit they will loose interest in watching
243 + 55 = 298
NV 5 + CO 9 + OH 20 + MI 17 + NH 4 = 55

A reporter for the Anchorage daily, Gregg Erickson, even did an online chat with the Washington Post, in which he revealed that Palin’s approval rating in the state was not the much-touted 80%, but 65% and sinking — and that among journalists who followed her it might be in the “teens.”

Omentum,
What if someone supported a bill in the Senate that would allow a US state to create it’s own Kingdom, complete with it’s own government and ambassdor to the US? What if that bill was also widely considered (even by the bill’s submitter) to be the first step for that state to split from the union? We’re talking about an actual bill on the floor of the US Senate. Would you support it? Look up Akaka Bill.
So let’s see … VP candidate’s spouse attending some meetings of a do-nothing political group vs. Presidential candidate making things happen on the floor of the Senate to bump his own state out of the union. Which one are you more concerned about?

I am more concerned with an unvetted unknown Alaskan Governor who has yet to explain this.
“I’m an Alaskan, not an American. I’ve got no use for America or her damned institutions.”
Joe Vogler
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Does Hawaii feel this way …. NO

I’m sure you’ll find many Republicans in Alaska who will trash talk Palin.
This spunky maverick bucked her own party for the good of the people, exposing fraud and corruption and shaking the establishment from top to bottom.
She stepped down as chairwoman of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and blew the whistle on Republicans who were benefitting personally from their positions on the Commission.
Sarah Palin isn’t going to Washington to seek the ‘ good opinion. She’s going to Washington for good of the people!
McMaverick/Sarahcuda = An Unstoppable Duo!

Jake, at 3:00 AM in the morning,
With a finger on the trigger of World Destruction, is this the man we want.

Anyone who watched the pow’s in real time knows what it felt like to be in a war that lost 58,000 young men in Nam to see the pow’s fly in was so moving it took so long and they were really miss treated from 68- 70 until they finally let the red cross in I think thr real abuse stopped then so JM maye have had some time to heal and of course anyone who has had his arms broke and they havn’t healed right knows what pain he lives with.

bishop
do you actually think mccain was tortured——the son of the commander of the pacific fleet –do you really

is that how he got his arms broken—-plus his leg.

if i told you he got beat up ejecting from his plane –you would have the correct answer on this one.

Well Jake, after reading your reader’s comments it seems that there are a lot of lunatics who won’t be quieted among them.

Who are you all to sit back and question his treatment? The fact is, this man put his life on the line to serve his country. Did you?

Many who are making disparaging comments about McCain with respect to the video footage were not born yet during that time.
I remember sitting in class with many GI’s who had come back and were going to college. You have not witnessed how they would get down to the floor when they heard a popping noise. You have not seen how they, in spite of being crippled either by torture or severe wound, would “man up” meaning try to move as “normally” as possible in the presence of officers or their parents or families. They could not bear to see the pain on their families faces when they saw them at their weakest. They would do the same when spit upon or insulted by their own counrtymen, as if somehow they, who had been drafted, were responsible for the political decisions that that been made. No one saw them crumple when they thought they were alone except those of us who were their friends, or siblings, or simply did not judge them.
Viet Nam was not going to release any prisoners to the public that had not been put into some semblance of normal shape prior to their release. And the men were not going to give any sign of weakness in public before their captors and their nation. Anyone who does not understand this is ignorant.
One of my very close relatives was a physician at a Vet hospital, having been drafted and an army man himself. He came home with stories every night about these men. They would come in trying to be as normal as possible before crumpling in pain.
I looked at the video closely. McCain doesn’t look that great and teeth are missing from his mouth. He limps, he opens and closes his mouth a sign of pain) and he holds his arms more stiffly than the other men. I’m certain he did what he had to do not to appear weak in public.
The vietnamese and the US have both corroborated his torture etc. It’s too bad that the people of my party feel they have to rip apart his service. Perhaps they should all visit vet hospitals for a few days. It may open their eyes.

As an occasional reader of the US media (and related readers’ comments), I must say that I am totally stunned by the sheer vitriol directed towards McCain’s military service.
Ok, you may disagree with him and his party and strongly favour the other candidate, but… why all this personal HATE?? I simply don’t understand you.

It is obvious to me that he suffered severely as a result of his capture and injuries.
John McCain has devoted his life to the service of this country. His opponent has given lip service only, in my opinion.
I will vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin.

the question I have is not about McCain, it is more about how we could win the COLD WAR against mother RUSSIA, and we can whip Iraq and Afghanistan, but we could not help South Vietnam whoop up on North Vietnam? I sense that the Military Industrial Complex President Eisenhower warned us about might have had a part in that.

Senator John McCain and his wife Cindy have paid their dues to reside at the White House, and have always been proud Americans.
Senator McCain has served in the military for 22+ years during which time he was a POW, one term as House of Representatives, 24 years as Senator, donates his salary and profits from his books to charity, leads by example.
Cindy McCain has served her country by standing by her husband, mother of two sons in the military, a philanthropist who travels around the world doing humanitarian/charity work for the needy.
What has Barack Obama and his wife done for their country? Nothing, NADA! How much money did they contribute to charity? Only 1% of close to $5 million they earned last year, and was contributed to Wright’s Trinity Church. And Obama talks about inspiring people when he does not lead by example, he’s a JOKE!

Clearly the video has been edited to showcase only Sen. McCain. I contend that the footage of Sen. McCain saluting was probably taken shortly after he was shot down and at the beginning of his internment and not at the conclusion. Besides how is it that the camera happens to be on Sen. McCain the moment that his name is called out…without his rank, by the way. And if you notice, Sen. McCain doesn’t budge when his name is mentioned. Clearly the voice is dubbed in. This tape is a fake!

To thoose who beleive this was planned as PR to enforce McCain, I would like to give you some additional info.
SVT who has the archive, are a very pro democrat channel. They are very biased to their reporting to the Democrats benefits.
There is no way the channel would hold back this news, to help the McCain camp.

Its no fraud, the audio comes from the same film, the camera films the vietnamese officer that reads his name.
The shorter cut of the movie uses the audio from the the officer with the film of McCain.
A common editing techniqe if you have to shorten a clip. Its not taken from another event.
There are of course alot more film from that event, but the station has edited out things that doesnt have to do with McCain.
And the station that did the editing is pro-democrat, so its not a big chance this was edited to help McCain in the election.

Marilyn, and who started the Vietnam War? It was President Kennedy and President Johnson! Both Democrats!!