Cindy McCain: The POWs Who 'Had the Trouble' Were Young Draftees, Not Trained Officers Like McCrypt

[jefferson_dem]

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

October 09, 2008 9:17 PM

An interesting exchange from Cindy McCain in the new issue of Marie Claire. Will be interesting to see how McCain's fellow P.O.W.'s react.

Q: You met your husband after his POW days. To what extent is that still with you - or is it a part of history?

CINDY McCAIN: My husband will be the first one to tell you that that's in the past. Certainly it's a part of who he is, but he doesn't dwell on it. It's not part of a daily experience that we experience or anything like that. But it has shaped him. It has made him the leader that he is.

Q: But no cold sweats in the middle of the night?

CINDY McCAIN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no. My husband, he'd be the first one to tell you that he was trained to do what he was doing. The guys who had the trouble were the 18-year-olds who were drafted. He was trained, he went to the Naval Academy, he was a trained United States naval officer, and so he knew what he was doing.

- jpt

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/10/cindy-mccain-th.html

[garlicmilkshake]

1. He was trained to crash airplanes?

How the fuck did we win that war? Oh, wait....
:eyes:

[bluestateguy]

2. How Rumsfeldian

Remember when Dumsfeld said that draftees "added no value" to the army back when we used conscription?

[KatyaR]

"He doesn't dwell on it?"

Then WTF is all this "I was a POW," "he was a POW" crap we keep hearing about?

[gateley]

3. I had no idea she was so STUPID. Really. nt

[TankLV]

8. Did she go to Barbara Bush Community College, too?!?!

[AllentownJake]

4. So the majority of Vietnam Vets who were drafted

Just got a giant Fuck You from Cindy McCain.

Thanks Cindy...could you insult National Guardsmen next.

[ErinBerin84]

5. like I said in the other thread, reckless and ignorant!

effing stupid snob.

[FreakinDJ]

6. Very Very Few enlisted men came home from prison camps

They only choose to keep the officers alive

[thunder rising]

7. Trained to scream "I'm the son of the Admiral on duty off the coast!"

[truthisfreedom]

9. He was trained to graduate at the bottom of his class?

THAT's what he was trained to do, Cindy?

[SoxFan]

10. "He doesn't dwell on it"

I don;t know whether to :wtf:, :puke:, :banghead:, :rofl:, or :cry:

[Sputnik55]

11. How can McCain claim refusing early release?

Bad guys running POW camp: we're sending you home
McCain: not going
Bad guys running POW camp: OK - cool with us

Or am I missing something? Since when do POWs dictate to their captors?

Why would anyone claim they refused early release?