Breaking: John McCain has died at 81

[Hindustani78]

An American hero who served his country honorably. RIP

Rest in Peace.

John Sidney McCain III was born in 1936 in the Panana Canal zone, where his father was stationed in the military.

He followed his father and grandfather, the Navy’s first father-and-son set of four-star admirals, to the Naval Academy, where he enrolled in what he described a “four-year course of insubordination and rebellion.” His family yawned at the performance. A predilection for what McCain described as “quick tempers, adventurous spirits, and love for the country’s uniform” was encoded in his family DNA.

The scion of a decorated military family, McCain embraced his role as chairman of the Armed Services Committee, pushing for aggressive U.S. military intervention overseas and eager to contribute to “defeating the forces that want to destroy America.”

On October 1967, McCain was on his 23rd bombing round over North Vietnam when he was shot out of the sky and taken prisoner.

Senator John McCain is pulled out of a Hanoi lake by North Vietnamese army soldiers

McCain took on conservatives in his party over the federal debt and Democrats over foreign policy. McCain never softened on his opposition to the U.S. use of torture, even in the recalibrations of the post-9/11 world. When the Senate in 2014 released a report on the CIA’s harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities after the 9/11 attacks, McCain said the issue wasn’t “about our enemies. It’s about us. It’s about who we were, who we are and who we aspire to be. It’s about how we ..

During his final years in the Senate, McCain was perhaps the loudest advocate for U.S. military involvement overseas - in Iraq, Syria, Libya and more.

U.S. Senator John McCain, who died on August 25, is shown with Ukrainian President

( Kabul, Afghanistan) Sen. John McCain leads a contingent of military

Georgia's Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili meets with Chair of the US Senate Armed Services Committee

An Indian soldier shows a grenade launcher to a 1-2 Stryker Brigade Combat Team soldier from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Sept. 15, 201

 

[Hindustani78]

“I am a black criminal'
John Sidney McCain III was born in 1936 in the Panana Canal zone, where his father was stationed in the military.

On October 1967, McCain was on his 23rd bombing round over North Vietnam when he was shot out of the sky and taken prisoner.

Year upon year of solitary confinement, deprivation, beatings and other acts of torture left McCain so despairing that at one point he weakly attempted suicide. But he also later wrote that his captors had spared him the worst of the abuse inflicted on POWs because his father was a famous admiral. “I knew that my father’s identity was directly related to my survival,” he wrote in one of his books.

When McCain’s Vietnamese captors offered him early release as a propaganda ploy, McCain refused to play along, insisting that those captured first should be the first set free.

In his darkest hour in Vietnam, McCain’s will had been broken and he signed a confession that said, “I am a black criminal and I have performed deeds of an air pirate.”

Even then, though, McCain refused to make an audio recording of his confession and used stilted written language to signal he had signed it under duress. And, to the end of his captivity, he continued to exasperate his captors with his defiance.

Throughout, McCain played to the bleachers, shouting obscenities at guards to bolster the spirits of fellow captives. Appointed by the POWs to act as camp entertainment officer, chaplain and communications chief, McCain imparted comic relief, literary tutorials, news of the day, even religious sustenance.

Bud Day, a former cellmate and Medal of Honour winner, said McCain’s POW experience “took some great iron and turned him into steel.”

McCain returned home from his years as a POW on crutches and never regained full mobility in his arms and leg.

POW-MIA issue

In the 1990s, McCain shouldered another wrenching issue, the long effort to account for American soldiers still missing from the war and to normalize relations with Vietnam.

“People don’t remember how ugly the POW-MIA issue was,” former Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey, a fellow Vietnam veteran, later recalled in crediting McCain for standing up to significant opposition. “I heard people scream in his face, holding him responsible for the deaths of POWs.”

Over three decades in the Senate, McCain became a standard-bearer for reforming campaign donations. He denounced pork-barrel spending for legislators’ pet projects and cultivated a reputation as a deficit hawk and an independent voice. His experience as a POW made him a leading voice against the use of torture. He achieved his biggest legislative successes when making alliances with Democrats.

But faced with a tough GOP challenge for his Senate seat in 2010, McCain disowned chapters in his past and turned to the right on a number of hot-button issues, including gays in the military and climate change. And when the Supreme Court in 2010 overturned the campaign finance restrictions that he’d work so hard to enact, McCain seemed resigned.

“It is what it is,” he said.

 

[Trango Towers]

Well rest assured all tge arrogant bastards that run the evil america will die. I hope their maker has no mercy for they live the life of killing rape pillage and plunder. Yes they endorced it

 

[jamal18]

Don't know how this link will work out.

 

[jamal18]

Well rest assured all tge arrogant bastards that run the evil america will die. I hope their maker has no mercy for they live the life of killing rape pillage and plunder. Yes they endorced it

I hope they all die before me. Then when I die, there will be no more room in Hell.....

 

[SALMAN F]

It is OK to critic John McCain, but it is NOT OK to disrespect the dead. Keep in mind that every person will die one day, and face judgment for his deeds. Modern-era Muslims are among the most hypocritical individuals on Earth - please study Surah al-Isra and Surah ar-Rum.

McCain was a soldier, and not a human rights worker. A soldier is supposed to obey orders of his superiors and do the needful.

Its really ironic for Russians and Iraqi to cry wolf - each have victimized other countries and killed a huge number of people. Kindly see the mirror - both of you.

Iranians and Vietnamese aren't saints either. Both interfere in the matters of other countries, and will act much in the same way as US is known to. Vietnam invaded and executed 'regime change' in Cambodia [1] and Iran chose to save a mass murderer scum in Syria. So much for being morally fair.

[1] FYI: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian–Vietnamese_War

Nice try to defend scumbag

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

It is OK to critic John McCain, but it is NOT OK to disrespect the dead.

Ding dong McCain is dead. Evil men like him and Hitler deserve no respect. Either in life nor after death.

 

[Ryan]

Good riddance, John McCain. Burn and rot in hell.

To american, he is a sold-out to military-industrial complex which overstretches the power of the USA and cause the decline of the country.

to the rest of the world,
John McCain’s Legacy of Bloodlust & Warmongering

 

[LeGenD]

Ding dong McCain is dead. Evil men like him and Hitler deserve no respect. Either in life nor after death.

And Stalin. And Putin.

 

[Yongpeng Sun-Tastaufen]

And Stalin. And Putin.

Nah. They are good men.

 

[LeGenD]

Nice try to defend scumbag

No, I am not his fan. He has met his maker and is now answerable to the Lord for his deeds. Same is true for Saddam Hussein.

I am just pointing out the hypocrisy.

Nah. They are good men.

Good is a point of view.

 

[newb3e]

burn in hell!

 

[Götterdämmerung]

 

[Raider 21]

And Stalin. And Putin.

And Osama Bin Laden...

 

[Raider 21]

Nah. They are good men.

If they were the same and just happened to be American....then there'd be a different statement