Cindy McCain: The POWs Who ‘Had the Trouble’ Were Young Draftees, Not Trained Officers Like My Husband

SHe hasa proved that she is just as insane as her husband. Not the 1st time a McCainiac has dishonored POWS/ Google McCain attacking Dolores Alfond a sister of a POW who’s only crime was asking McCain and Kerry to NOT normalize relations with Vietnam, untill all of the POWS living and dead were turned over to the US. Google American POWS Alive American Free Press. (Vietnam Veterans Against McCain)McCain is the WORST of the most despicable scum that has ever walked the Earth.

No Carrie, just the opposite. She is acknowledging that young soldiers have problems sometimes. The more training the better you fair.

Does this mean that Cindy does not want 18 year olds to be soldiers? Is she aware of her husband’s terrible, terrible record of supporting veterans? Particularly veterans who are disabled or who need mental care?

This was totally disrespectful. It reminds me of Marie Antoinette who said, after learning her people were hungry, “Let them eat cake.”

Trophy wife? Riiiiiiiiiiiight
More like a plastic bag with 2 legs, 2 eyes and white hair.
Sweetie, you should be focusing on transitioning into oblivion with McChicken. Those cougar days are over.

Disgusting woman.
BTW, “he doesn’t dwell on it”?
Do we know the old man better than Cindy does?
Plus, I understand that McCain was trained to bring 5 planes down? Weird.
No parent of a young soldier in the US Army should vote for this b*tch’s hubby.

McCain’s record with Vets: He has voted against increasing vets health care in 2004, 05, 06 and 07. Since 1991, he has voted 28 times against veterans benefits, including healthcare. The non-partisan Iraq and Afghanistan Vets give McCain a “D” rating on his votes for vets. In 2005, he voted aganst a bill which would provide mental health care to Iraqi vets (S2020). In 2008, McCain voted against the GI bill for Iraq vets (S43 amend to HR2642). McCain reversed his promise not to support waterboarding and voted with Bush on torture. In every debate, in every stump speech he talks about what a great friend to veterans he is. He also asks us to look at his record. I’m looking at his record and it’s hard to see how it could be much worse when it comes to veterans.

Now THAT comment send a cold chill down my spine. Imagine if you’re a young returning Iraq vet with PTSD and you read that Cindy McCain thinks you’re weak for having PTSD. BTW, when Obama opposed funding for the troops because the bill didn’t contain a timeline, CINDY MCCAIN’s kid wasn’t in Iraq. What a lying female dog!

Cindy McCain needs to go back to one of her seven houses and continue her life as a trophy wife/ house flower. Or perhaps shes more comfortable with Nazi like rallies.

Cindy McCain has made herself into Baghdad Bob!
I had an especially good laugh when she said that * * * Obama * * * was running a dirty campaign.
Perhaps someone should show her the ad that characterized a bill for give young children ‘AGE APPROPRIATE information’ regarding how to avoid sexual predators as ‘sex education’.
Perhaps she should divorce the lying bag of hypocracy that is currently her husband.

Funny, Cindy never mentioned that America is a hateful nation (Michelle)

Her true colors are finally being seen by the rest of this country,So long wannnna b Barbie and your botox

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Funny, Cindy never mentioned that America is a hateful nation (Michelle)
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Guess who is running a hateful campaign.
Blind hate that is being fed by this poisonous rhetoric , despicable and offensive…
Bi Partisan, Country First.. in your dreams. McCain First, You Betcha!

Captain America – More Iraqi vets have committed suicide than any recorded in history. Already. There are some wonderful groups out there – full of vets who are trying to help other vets. They are also doing everything they can to try to get mental health professionals involved – and the Iraqi vets – not you – are the ones who are asking for more professional care. I trust them and believe they know what they are doing.

For mysterious reasons, my post disappeared. It didn’t contain any profanity, any links, any attacks against anyone on this board. It simply stated the truth. John McCain’s record in the Senate in supporting veterans is shameful. 1) Since 1991, he has voted 28 times against benefits for veterans, including healthcare. On many votes, he was in a small minority of senators who voted against the bills 2) In the years 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, he voted specifically against raising health care benefits for veterans. 3) Iraqi and Afghani Vets Assn gives John McCain a “D” rating in his Senate votes for vets. 4) He promised he would never vote for torture, because it would take away any hope of protection for American soldiers. Last year he caved and voted with Bush on torture. 5) This year he voted against the GI Bill for Iraqi soldiers. When most soldiers are asked why they enlisted, they say that they did it because it was the only way they could hope to go to college. John McCain pretends to support the troops. He asks us to look at his record and then make a decision. I have looked at his record and he should be ashamed of it.

ka at 10:35, speaking of violence, I heard Carvelle on CNN said if Obama is in the lead by 5 points on election day and comes out not winning…..we’ll be in for a real surprise (revolt?)….that would be scarey.

From what we are seeing here in the Fort Stewart area where the 3rd ID is returning home, we are sorely understaffed when it comes to professionals trained to handle PTSD, and the effects it has on our heroes’ families. It’s unspoken around here. You won’t read about it in the papers. These towns economically depend on the Army, so they are not about to speak out of any problems…but you see it. We are seeing the effects in our juvenile courts and in our women’s shelters. In May, we had a “domestic issue” in our neighborhood that involved the swat team surrounding the house of a very recently returned soldier. My kids walk home from school and were all rerouted back to the school until an “all-safe” was issued. Thankfully, they talked him down and got him help. A shame it had to come to such desperate measures to get it. The next president is going to HAVE to find room in the budget to get more qualified help for our soldiers and their families.

Thank you, Cindy, for those truly reprehensible remarks. Having been an 18 year-old draftee (I volunteered for the draft), who fought in Vietnam and Cambodia, I’ve always suspected your husband was a little out of touch with the ground combat soldier’s life. You certainly are.
It’s one thing to sit in a cell and make tape-recordings, but quite another to live and fight amidst the people you’re trying to help, and to watch your friends die when some of those same people betray you. War in all its complexities is never as simple as John McCain would have people believe, and for some of us it NEVER ends — no matter who cries, “Victory!”

To Appease This,
Cindy McCain’s 19 year old son was in Iraq.
For you to say he wasn’t in Iraq is a lie.
He served in Anbar Province for 7 months.
Obama lets a fly bother him. Cindy went around the country with a cell phone attached to her wrist.

Cindy McCain suggests her husband does not suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder because men who enlist don’t get it and men who were drafted do.
So how does that explain our Iraq and Afghanistan vets? The ones John McCain has failed to support? That VoteVets and others have given a ‘D’ grade to? Is it any surprise McCain is involved with suppressing information about Vietnam POWs?
A cover-up of POW information, you ask. It’s true. John McCain helped do it. The question we need to ask him is just why …1973 is when the Hanoi peace treaty was signed in Paris. 1974 is the year where every known POW was turned over to the U.S.
Nixon and Kissinger were surprised by the ‘low’ number of POWs said to be held in Hanoi.
In 1992, there were hearings saying that there were prisoners missing from the list of names reported in 1973. Not quite 600 names were on the ‘treaty’ list.
“In the late 1970s and early 1980s, listening stations picked up messages in which Laotian military personnel spoke about moving American prisoners from one labor camp to another. ” Distress signals were picked up by NSA.
A woman named Dolores Alfond attended a 1992 committee meeting about the listening devices. “McCain attended that committee hearing specifically to confront Alfond because of her criticism of the panel’s work. He bellowed and berated her for quite a while. His face turning anger-pink, he accused her of “denigrating” his “patriotism.” The bullying had its effect—she began to cry.”
Hanoi suggested it was using other POWs as bargaining chips.
In 1991, the Pentagon started actively covering up any suggestion there were POWs left behind in Hanoi, despite the claim of up to over 1,200 soldiers on the list.
“John McCain—now campaigning for the White House as a war hero, maverick and straight shooter—owes the voters some explanations. …I have not found a single mention of his role in burying information about POWs. Television and radio news programs have been similarly silent….The only explanation McCain has ever offered for his leadership on legislation that seals POW files is that he believes the release of such information would only stir up fresh grief for the families of those who were never accounted for in Vietnam.” from a piece by Sydney H. Schanberg, The Nation. Since no broadcast or cable network has checked into all this.

To Kravitz,
McCain’s own 19 year old son served in Iraq and has friends who have been injured.
McCain has gone to Walter Reed dozens of times.
Obama went once and took the media with him.
McCain goes to walter reed for hours and rarely tells the media and has for years.
McCain tried to bring publicity to get better efforts for the troops.
McCain got Imus involved in Walter Reed.
McCain was a leader in the hearings about Walter Reed.

To West Coast Messanger:
Smart people like Michelle Obama who wouldn’t say if she could support Hillary if she won the nomination.
Amazing how people loved being used.

To Katia:
Obama who says our soldiers are air raiding villages and killing civilians.
The taliban are the ones who go into villages and kill civilians and target our troops with rockets while using civilians as human shields in those villages.
Obama was courting the far left when he said that.
The dems are the ones who do everything they can to try and prevent the troops from voting.
Remember in Florida in 2000 dems wanted the votes of the troops thrown out on a technicality.

To Sam:
where did you get this:
Obama who says our soldiers are air raiding villages and killing civilians.
I’m guessing you are taking this directly from the McCain campaing ad that was edited to give the American people the end of a sentence that Obama said in one of his speeches I suggest that you look up that quote ad listen to the word that came right before this quote to get the whole story but by the way you talk I know you won’t so I will give you the entire sentence and put it in the correct context that it was lifted from.
Barack Obama on the war in Afghanistan “We’ve got to get the job done there, and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there.”
The key words that have been taken out of the statement in the McCain ad are “so that we’re not” which comes right before what McCain used.
My question for you is are you actually niave enough to think that we have not killed Afghan civilians in the air-raids that we have conducted in Afghanistan?
If this is the case why then did Defense Secretary Robert Gates apologize last month for U.S. airstrikes that have killed Afghan civilians?

The McCain’s have lived apart for years. Cindy only lived in D.C. a short time and fled back to Arizona. I doiubt she knows whether McCain has cold sweats.
Her assertion that officers are somehow immune to PTSD shows how little she knows. But I guess that only applies to those officers from Annapolis – even those who only graduated because of family legacy.

McCain did not disclose his ties to a Contra group
Does McCain have something to hide??????

I have lost all respect for the McCains with the negative ads. He could have pulled himself out of this mess by being the McCain people were pulling for back in September. As for Cindy, when she stood on that stage and said chills went down her spine when Obama voted against money for the troops, but negleted to mention that her husband also voted against money for the troops for different reasons, I realized the “Country First” is not true. This campaign has become McCain win at any cost. Obama voted no because he wanted a time line included. When the time line was added, McCain voted no because he did not want time lines. All candidates should tell the truth, the whole truth and let the voters decide.

Just remember to vote for OBAMA. We have to protect our troops and our security.

To Sam:
“In the most obscene chapter in recent American history is the conduct of the Kosovo conflict when the president of the United States refused to prepare for ground operations, refused to have air power used effectively because he wanted them flying — he had them flying at 15,000 feet where they killed innocent civilians because they were dropping bombs from such — in high altitude.”
Those are the words of John McCain in 2000.

fyi…Has she or her husband been questioned on the following? Seems McCain has more than few skeletons in his closet…
In 1989, Cindy McCain became addicted to Percocet and Vicodin, opioid painkillers, which she initially took to alleviate pain following two spinal surgeries for ruptured discs, and to ease emotional stress during the Keating Five affair. The addiction progressed to where she was taking upwards of twenty pills a day,[15] and she resorted to having an AVMT physician write illegal prescriptions in the names of three AVMT employees without their knowledge.In 1992, her parents staged an intervention to force her to get help; she told her husband about her problem, attended a drug treatment facility, began outpatient sessions, and ended her three years of addiction. Surgery in 1993 resolved her back pain.
In January 1993, Tom Gosinski, an AVMT employee, who had discovered her illegal drug use, was terminated on budgetary grounds. Subsequently, he tipped off the Drug Enforcement Administration, and a federal investigation ensued. McCain’s defense team, led by John McCain’s Keating Five lawyer John Dowd, secured an agreement with the U.S. Attorney’s office for McCain, a first-time offender, that avoided charges while requiring her to pay financial restitution, enroll in a diversion program and do community service.Meanwhile, in early 1994 Gosinski filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against McCain, which he told her he would settle for $250,000.In response, Dowd characterized this request as blackmail and requested that officials investigate Gosinski for extortion. In the end, both Gosinski’s lawsuit and the extortion investigation against him were dropped
Knowing that the DEA prosecutors were about to publicly disclose her past addiction, McCain preemptively revealed the story to reporters saying she was doing so willingly: “Although my conduct did not result in compromising any missions of AVMT, my actions were wrong, and I regret them

Leslie,
Interesting….McCain’s temper is also legendary….So, we have a person who loves to gamble, a raging temper that is enough to embarass his in public with vile remarks, a wife who was in trouble for drug problem that McCain helped go away, who used poor judgement in the Keating 5 scandal, and who admittedly committedly adultery with his current wife. Do we really know who John McCain. I have said all along McCain’s hands are not clean which makes current strategy of calling out Obama on Ayres all the more absurd. It could also explain why he hasn’t gone the extra step and brought up Wright.

Does this woman ever think before she speaks?

Oh my goodness,,,she didn’t think before she spoke! My heart goes out to all these brave troops who have seen hell and have to relive it over and over again. May they all get the help they DESERVE without having to fight the government. Cindy, you owe them all an apology.

I served in the Marines. I will say
I did not fight for this country to have a low- life like Cindy McCain
denigrate my service! John McCain is playing politics for his OWN personal gain! He has shamed my service to this nation by running a dishonorable campaign. He comsistently votes AGAINST
increasing veterans benefits, yet has NO problem giving billions to oil companies and the filthy rich. John McCain deserves a DISHONORABLE discharge
from the American people in November, for running a DISHONORABLE campaign!