Crikey!! Now it's McCain's turn to have his military record scrutinized

[CatWoman]

McCain's Secret, Questionable Record

"At a meeting in his Pentagon office in early 1981, Secretary of the Navy John F. Lehman told Capt. John S. McCain III that he was about to attain his life ambition: becoming an admiral.... Mr. McCain declined the prospect of his first admiral's star to make a run for Congress, saying that he could 'do more good there,' Mr. Lehman recalled." So claimed the New York Times in a front-page article on May 29 this year.

This story is highly improbable for several reasons, not least of all because John McCain himself has always told a very different story about his stalled naval career. For example, on page 9 of his memoir Worth The Fighting For, McCain writes:

"Several months before my father died, I informed him that I was leaving the navy. I am sure he had gotten word of my decision from friends in the Pentagon. I had been summoned to see the CNO, Admiral Heyward, who told me I was making a mistake.... His attempt to dissuade me encouraged me to believe that I might have made admiral had I remained in the navy, a prospect that remained an open question in my mind.... Some of my navy friends believed I could earn my star; others doubted it.... When I told my father of my intention, he did not remonstrate me.... But I knew him well enough to know that he was disappointed. For when I left him that day, alone in his study, I took with me his hope that I might someday become the first son and grandson of four-star admirals to achieve the same distinction. That aspiration was well beyond my reach by the time I made my decision...."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-klein/mccains-secret-questionab_b_107409.html

[mcctatas]

1. 617 un-released pages?

"These numbers range from 0069 to 0636. When arranged in ascending order, they precisely track the chronology of McCain's career. It seems reasonable to ask the Navy whether there are at least 636 pages in McCain's file, of which 617 weren't released to the Associated Press."


W had nothing to be proud of and even he choked up at least 400 pages (or to look at it a different way, 21 times as much info)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/02/13/elec04.prez.bush.texas.records/index.html

And even better than both of these asshats, John Kerry signed the 180 Waiver and released almost everything, what's McCains problem?
:shrug:

[benddem]

2. dumping your crippled wife

for a rich trophy is not generally considered flag material. I doubt he'd have made it.

[momster]

3. Not to mention....

crashing 4 planes before you were shot down in your 5th, chasing women including subordinates, graduating 4th from the bottom in your Academy class, and being suspected of causing a disaster on one of your postings (USS Forrestal). These things do not an admiral make...nor a president.

[mcctatas]

4. Maybe it was better for bush that he didn't even bother to show up

who knows what hell he could have wrought! Never trust a monkey with a gun (or an armed fighter plane;) )

[momster]

6. Definitely Better for the Service

Airplanes are expensive!

[LiberalFighter]

5. Reasons why McCain becoming an admiral is improbable...

1) For example, McCain had been promoted to captain on August 1, 1979, so he wouldn't have been due for another promotion by March of 1981.

2) To begin with, John Lehman did not select Navy flag officers. That was done with a very august selection board headed by a four-star admiral. The Secretary of the Navy does not appoint. He is in the approval chain, but he is not on the committee.

3) This whole idea that John Lehman told John McCain he was going to be promoted to flag two years after he made captain sounds preposterous to me."

[Disturbed]

7. John Lehman lied about this.

McLame won't call him on that lie. He will give a weasle answer, such as Mr. Lehman mispoke about this situation.

[LiberalFighter]

8. Lehman is part of his campaign