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TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

Posted August 29th, 2008 by Jailhouse Author

"McCain, who turns 72 on Friday, is old and out of it. His ideas are tired and he is tired, and this is no time in the history of America or the world for a tired president." -Roger Simon

You better believe McCain is old and tired. I know McCain well, and not only is he old and tired, he's sick with P.T.S.D. just as I'm sick with P.T.S.D and have been since returning from Vietnam in 1969. There is one big difference. While he was in a POW camp making propaganda films for the enemy and snitching on fellow POWs in order to get favors, which is a court marshal offence as directed by Article III of the United States Military Code of Conduct, my tent mate and fellow pilot, WO Ted Thoman, was suffering 3rd degree burns on ninety percent of his body. I was with him when he died and he went through hell for three days. My other tent mate, CW2 Richard Arann, died on his second tour while this so-called hero, John McCain, was still making movies and playing the part of a traitor well enough that his fellow POWs nicknamed him Songbird and nominated him for an Academy Award. So don't get in my face, John McCain; you're nothing but a damn imposter trying to leverage the only thing you have--a fake hero image.

I will not proceed to tell people who to vote for, but I will tell them that if they want an old man who is consumed with hate because Americans left him in a POW camp for five years, an old fool who will start WWIII just to get even, then John McCain is their man.

Bob Miller