Donald Trump continues to fight in his own defense against rhetoric he claims was a viscous attack against him by the father of a decorated Muslim Army captain killed in Iraq.
Trump broke a political and societal taboo over the weekend when he criticized Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the bereaved parents of Capt. Humayun Khan, who was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart after he was killed in Iraq in 2004. Trump stoked outrage by implying Ghazala Khan did not speak while standing alongside her husband at last week’s Democratic convention because she is a Muslim woman.
The outcry has been swift and bipartisan. On Monday, Republican Sen. John McCain said in a statement that the fact Trump won his party’s nomination doesn’t give him “unfettered license to defame those who are the best among us.”
McCain added pointedly: “I’d like to say to Mr. and Mrs. Khan: thank you for immigrating to America. We’re a better country because of you.”
Trump tweeted Monday that “Mr. Khan, who does not know me, viciously attacked me from the stage of the DNC and is now all over T.V. doing the same.” He said the focus should be on “radical Islamic terrorism,” not the parents.
Khizr Khan told CNN on Monday that “We want to be out of this controversy. That is not our style. … We want to maintain our dignity,” even as the couple kept up a round of TV appearances. Said his wife: “My religion or my family or my culture never stopped me from saying what I want to say. I have all the rights as a wife, as a mother, as a daughter.”
At last week’s convention, Khizr Khan criticized Trump for proposing to freeze the entry of foreign Muslims into the U.S. and accused him of making no sacrifices for his country.
Both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell issued statements over the weekend praising the couple’s son. Though neither mentioned Trump, the congressional leaders pointedly denounced his proposed restriction on foreign Muslims, a policy he had altered in recent weeks.
The episode risked setting back whatever progress Trump made during his convention at winning over the independent voters who will probably be key in the fall election.
Yet he’s repeatedly made inflammatory statements at little apparent political cost — and sometimes to his benefit — going back to the beginning of the campaign when he challenged the heroism of McCain, a prisoner of war in Vietnam, and branded Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals. Many of his supporters have been drawn to his tendency to say the politically unthinkable. The question is whether this, finally, is a step too far.
For the second time in a week, Trump’s running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, issued a statement that appeared designed to put some space between the two men. The father of a Marine, Pence said Sunday that he and Trump believe Capt. Khan is a hero and his family “should be cherished by every American.”
Last week, Pence said Russia would face “serious consequences” for meddling in U.S. elections at roughly the same time Trump appeared to encourage it, telling reporters he would welcome Russia unearthing emails that Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton deleted from the private servers she used while secretary of state.
Pence’s statement late Sunday came after an afternoon of debate among his aides as to whether he should find a way to dissociate himself subtly from Trump’s comments, according to a person familiar with the internal campaign conversations who spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss them publicly.
At last week’s Democratic convention, the Pakistan-born Khizr Khan told his son’s story, questioned whether Trump had ever read the Constitution and said “you have sacrificed nothing.” During the speech, Ghazala Khan stood quietly by his side.
Trump responded in an interview with ABC’s “This Week,” saying: “If you look at his wife, she was standing there. She had nothing to say. She probably, maybe she wasn’t allowed to have anything to say.”
Ghazala Khan wrote in Sunday’s Washington Post that she did not speak because talking about her son’s death remains difficult. “Every day, whenever I pray, I have to pray for him, and I cry,” she wrote.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
Tell McCain and all the idiot government officials that we need to stop illegals from coing to America and that if the ones that are already here can not handle what the truth is, then leave and don’t come back. They come here and get all the benefits and everything else that real hard working Americans have to do for 40 years. Stop your crying you bunch of foreign jackasses.
why didn’t the Muslim father talk about the Bengahazi cover-up by Hillary ??????
Did those parents think their son was going to a picnic? He signed up to go to WAR – period. Muslim or not that is was happens at war: some get killed others not. Stop this bleeding heart sH-T!!! Besides, this war started when some Muslims decided to destroy our country – Where were you Mr. khan?
Khan was getting the 9/11 terrorists visas. That’s his practice
Anyway, Trump is on record that he was against those wars more than a dozen years ago when their son died. If Trump was president then, their son would not have died.
2016: VOTE TRUMP/PENCE
VOTE COMMON SENSE.
amen
I said it before and I’ll say it again. Unless i got the story wrong the Captain was not in a fire fight or other combat at the time he got killed. Not that he is any less dead or less of a good soldier because of that, but stop trying to turn him into an Alvin York or Audie Murphy.
I am sorry for his parents because he is not coming back, But damn them for defaming him by using his name to make political hay and actually supporting the no good Moslem bastards that killed him.
Rest in peace Captain, but God Damn your father (If he is, in fact you father)
I like the thought .Getting killed in a war zone does not make you a hero. You are a casualty.
The plan was to make Trump look bad to begin with. The parents should have been speaking against terrorism or even war itself. But then, they wouldn’t have been invited to speak if that was the case. They brought Trump into as a ploy for Hillary to make Trump a bad guy about illegal immigrants. But he’s not. Sane people realize this.
Well if you are old enough you would remember chicken McCaine giving statements against our country while a prisoner and didn’t appear worse of treatment as he said he was tortured, some other US prisoners hated him. When I sat in a movie theater and Movie Tune news ( I think it was called that) a short between features, showed McCain damning the US for the war in Vietnam! I was so angry over his speach, so angry that I can see him yet, and I still condemn him and will never feel like he was some sort of hero but a traitor to fellow prisoners, his family, the service, and mostly to every American. I did not support that war but if called would have gone! So I put nothing he says to be true!!
I don’t agree with many of Senator McCain’s policies/votes recently. But these attacks against Mr. McCain are slanderous. For every isolated charge against Mr. McCain, there are multiple witnesses who defend him. Many of these attacks come from individuals who hate him because of recent votes on Veterans issues. McCain was the son of a prominent Navy Officer. The North Vietnamese knew this, and they viciously tortured him because of this. The injuries he carries to this day aren’t fake. Every prisoner has a breaking point, and he probably issued many statements under extreme duress. Like I’ve said before, unless you served in Vietnam and knew John McCain personally-or maybe you personally know someone who served in Vietnam that you can trust. Otherwise don’t give traction to second/third hand information. Mr. Lifestford, please reconsider your attack against Mr. McCain.
You may want to know someone who knew McCain at that time to confirm what he was but I formed my opinion from what I saw with my own eyes plus what I later learned. Here it is! When McCain and others were released they were flown home. When they got off the plane, it was easy to compare their conditions. McCain looked to be about 20 pounds overweight,much like he does today, while the others all looked to be at least 30 pounds underweight. If anyone was tortured, it sure wasn’t McCain. I later learned that he should never have been in the Naval Air Force. The Naval Air requires that anyone applying must have been in the top ten percent of their class at the Naval Academy. McCain was in the bottom third of his class. Also, he crashed three planes during his training which is something that would never have been allowed from any other trainee. People who know this, like me, believe that he probably crashed his fourth plane in Viet Nam. Now, think, if McCain was a hero and had a father and grandfather who were admirals, wouldn’t he have made the Navy his profession? The fact that he resigned should tell you that the Navy didn’t want him. As to many defending him, there’s always defenders…look at Hitlery Clinton. she is Corruption’s Child and has been publicly corrupt since, at least, the age of 27 when she was fired from the Watergate investigation because, according to her supervisor, she was a liar. McCain got into the only profession that would accept him because of people like you who demand absolute black and white proof which almost never exists.
I DID go, (Class of 68) and think McCain is a RINO, but I find it very hard to believe that he puked. – I never heard this before.
He might be a RINO but he is still my brother.
I hope there are enough Americans capable to filter out the phony garbage.
I do too. Trump may be straightforward but I do wish he would use a little more tact and wisdom. I hope he doesn’t become his own worst enemy and lose.
I like him just the way he is. I have H-A-D I-T with the PC mealie mouths. Keep saying it like it is, Don!
Amen!
I agree with all you have said.
I haven’t read where Trump didn’t think losing their son did not hurt them. No one denies that. But none of what was said was said by any of them will make my decision to not vote for Hillary or my opinion of her any different. To me, she had some berieved parents up to talk. It didn’t make her become honest or have scruples or be trustworthy. .
I agree 100%
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No matter what Trump says, according to the media HE is always wrong or they add words or suggestions that were not really there — it’s obvious that the media is helping Hillary as we expected them to. And another thing — I’m sick of hearing about Trump and Putin — the reality is Trump didn’t write the emails, the DNC or Hillary wrote them — end of story.
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But Mr. Trump didn’t need to pick this fight. This is similar to the verbal spat concerning the Latino judge not too long ago. I know that Trump grew up in New York City, and that environment probably forces somebody to be more aggressive and loud. But not every voter is from NYC. Not every American voter appreciates this sort of talk, so Mr. Trump needs to pick his fights more intelligently. The funny think about this is that Mr. Trump is wasting his time trying to convince the typical NYC voter. Democrat voters in New York outnumber opponents by a wide margin. So, Donald won’t win his own State. He has to convince many other American voters. And they’re not exactly New Yorkers. Think before you speak/tweet Mr. Trump!!
Aggressive, Loud sure, but you forgot one thing – Honest. He saw something that was wrong and said something about it. If we all would do that we would not be trying to figure with bathroom to go into.
Keep saying it like it is, Don.
Trump for the White House, Clinton for the BIG house.
Go to YouTube and type in “Clinton Cash” (1 hour-5 minutes). Then type in Kahzir Khan. Democrat or not, you may come away with a different opinion of the Khans and Hillary. Neither of them are as angelic as they would have you believe.
Did Mr. Kahn from Pakistan ask the same question to Hillary???
With his political prostitution of a “suffering Parent” at the DNC Convention he slapped all the Parents, Brothers and Sisters who
lost their loved ones to our nation in the face, because they are proud of their sacrifice and don’t go on a public stage.
I have to restrain my self not to puke when I see this o “so rightful” figure on TV.
Not to take from their parental pain but it was a ploy used by Hillary. She figures, their pain, her gain. I can’t see her doing anything for any other reason. Hillary will protect America! All of her “people ” will one day find that out I hope. And before it’s too late. They won’t be protected either.
Why did he attact Trump in the first place? That was right out of Hillary’s mouth!
TRUMP Was Right!! Just Because Mr. Khan has Lost a Son in Iraq, IT Does Not GIVE Him the Right to SLANDER and DEFAME MR. Trump!! Mr. Khan ACTED in A Very Dis Respectful and Shameful Way! SHAME ON ALL REPUBLICAN RHINOS IN CONGRESS AND ELSEWHERE for ATTACKING OUR NOMINEE the NEXT PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP. TRUMP’s Statements on Mr. Khan will have no real effect on this Election. The People Know the Real Truth, not the Lies that the DEMOCRATIC COMMUNIST PARTY wants people to think is the truth.
If we want Donald J Trump as our President? Then we the people are going to have to make a consolidated effort and decision to take this election from the Liberal Democrats! One Way or the Other!
With all due respect, mr. Trump has Spoken about helping veterans more probably than any other president, since Kennedy, however some have gone and seen those injured I truly believe no president for a long time has ever put the emphasis on helping them as Trump has. Trump is no pmad man like some think but a deliberate thinking, caring individual, and I am sure if he knew what the Democrats were planning to use this family, he would be more of himself toward a Lost U S soldier, but he was attract and that is that! The family didn’t want publicly, but went from one TV station to another, I think they are democrats and most of this was planned using this family and I mean intendeing to use their loss to help a failing Hillary
thanks
And McCain can go pound salt. And I don’t mean in a mine.
This whole issue smacks of Democratic desperation.
when mr khan made his speech at the dnc, why didn’t he say hillary plans on bringing millions of muslim islamic jihadi killers, the same ones that killed his son into the usa. he should be thanking donald trump for protecting americas borders. also, what war or military branch did bill- hillary-chelsea serve or fight in while they have lived their billion dollar lifestyle the last 50 years on the taxpayer dime while they perpetrate one corrupt murderous perverted crime after another. why didn’t mr khan. point this out in his staged smear of donald trump. trump did nothing to this man or his deceased war hero son. the muslim islamic jihadi killers killed his son and he should rightly blame them, not trump. hillary clinton should be tried for treason for letting 4 good men get murdered and screwed up the ass by perverted muslim jihadi killers and mr khan should blame steppenfetchit obama and crooked hillary for getting their son killed, as current military rules of engagement only a soldier tofire on the enemy after getting pemission to shoot. by then, they are already dead. I hope all the freeloaders think of the last 8 years of treasonous murderous sedatious leadership and see through these orchestrated media smears of donald trump, eho did nothing to or had any interaction with mr khan until he was vicously attacked by mr khan.
Every word that is said from the comment I’m responding to is the Honest Truth. I couldn’t of said it better. Every one needs to read & get the real feel of the words are saying. Now that is the BEST YET. ALL ARE GREAT BUT THIS COMMENTS MADE IS WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT. A REAL SET UP BY THE MEDIA. NOW SOME ONE NEEDS TO POINT OUT WHAT HILLERY & OBAMA ARE DOING THAT IS REAL & WHAT WE ARE EXPERCIENCING NOW IN OUR EVERY DAY LIVES. CROOKS TO THE CORE. TREASONOUS ACTS, NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT. WHERE IS EVERY ONE????????????PUT THE CLAMPS ON THE CROOKS.
SATAN IS WORKING HARD. HE IS USING THE OBAME ADMINSTRATION & HILLARY TO DO THE DIRTY WORK. GOD BLESS AMERICA. IN GOD WE TRUST.
Is Islam a religion in the same sense as Christianity or Buddism or Hinduism, or Lutheranism, Presbyterianism, Catholicism or Judism? Absolutely not! Islam is an agressive, warring, political ideology. I took a course on Islam in order to understand what it is about. Bottom Line: You can either become islamic or die. Learn about it before you make comments that are ignorant and false. In the islamic ideology, lying is approved to accomplish their goals of eliminating anyone who will stand in the way of establishing their ideology in our Christian Country.
( https://civilusdefendus.wordpress.com/2010/01/10/4-stages-of-islamic-conquest/ ).
Paul Ryan, McCain and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have to go. All three are
muzzy sympathizers and suck up every time they get a chance. Remember these useless punks when voting time rolls around !!
thanks for the info, they will not get my vote
I agree strongly on at least Senators McCain and McConnell. Both need to retire or be defeated at ballot box. But this is up to Arizona and Kentucky voters. And to the Senators who voted McConnell Majority Leader.
Donald
You should have expressed your regretful ness that they lost their son and said people such as them that are willing to become United States citizens are welcome
Sorry for Mr. Khan’s loss however my brother fought in the vietnam war and almost lost his life twice one being a buddy right next to him was killed. Now what Donad Trump said was only the truth. There a lot of Muslim females who cannot even go out without head coverings told by us by the Muslims themselves. So everything that Trump says with be nick picked because they are democrats. How about keeping what Hillary said about Benghaze in the news every day. There are a lot of us who have not voted in a poll who will be voting for Trump so how do they get a correct count?
Strange that a speaker at the DNC was a Muslum whose son died 12 years ago
flighting in the US Army. How far did they have to dig for him? I’m sure Mr. Khan
did not approach the DNC. Just another DNC smear against Trump. Haven’t
seen a Clinton name among any list of having Served so what is different that
Trump has not? We have got to get rid of the good ‘ole boys club and those
who buy favors and positions in Washington. Nothing will change if Hillary goes
into Office. She owes everyone in one way or the other. And speaking of owing
how much did the DNC pay Mr. Khan to be a speaker?
Get real and recognize what Hillary and the DNC are trying to do. Mr. Khan
didn’t write that speech. Why would he have gotten into Trumps military or lack
of back ground? Not a word about other Muslim in this Great Country that are
enlisting to fight for your rights. I feel the percentage must be extremely low. Oh
sorry, if you are illegal you can not join the military. My Father-in-Law, my husband
and my son all enlisted. My son is currently serving and just re-elisted. He already
has served 24 years to help protect our Freedoms. Oh yes, and I do know loss. I
lost a brother-in-law at the age of 22 in Viet Nam.
If you want government like you’ve had it for the past 8 years vote for Hillary and
don’t complain when your taxes go up to support the illegals, “free” schools, and
you can own a gun but you can’t take it out of the house. If you want the Freedoms
guaranteed you in the Constitution and Bill of Rights, want the Trade deals to swing
our way, go back to using the immigration laws we already have and your fore-
fathers used when coming to this Country then Vote Trump.
You can decide your future. The same thing you’ve had in the past or a chance at
a new bright future. You decide.
The idea of the dims and RINOs using a muslim as a poster boy for our military is obscene, disgusting and revolting! And the reason was not to highlight the valor and dedicated service of millions of Americans, many who have made the ultimate sacrifice but to mask what muslims do, terrorism, to make islam appear as a “peaceful” religion. When in fact islam is a form of govt with the dedicated objective of jihad to conquer the world and subjugate the entire world under sharia law!
I’m just simple voter and simple listener of all those unrealistic dicscatinon on the podium of the two parties, two presentationals canditets.All world knows that every countries had and should have to know legally who entering their country,so that way you limited the problem of eavel people who have in their Hart and mind hate against inesem humans.DNC using Mr and Mrs Khen to their own benefit hope all world see that their family and their son is definitely recognized as a good and productive citizens and by all means no body could take that ftom them.Both parties should be considered about regulation and future of Amerika not to bring something ridiculous that listener will be confused.Wake up and see reality how is different Mr.Ttump from Hillery Clinton who she just have been and with her own proof show to every person on this world how she is not any any more to be feet for a President of USA.
It appears to me that O and the muslim WH have hijacked congress and the SC and the dim party. Possibly the GOP party but a number of party big wigs. Islam’s intent is to take over this nation politically, like they have taken over many countries already. Politically. There is no record of a military take over of any place. Not even the latest conquest, Turkey. Since islam the religion is but a mask of the real face of islam, the govt islam which has /sharia law as it’s “constitution”! And the caliphate is the head of state of the Nation of Islam which is like a united states of islam. All member states will have sharia law as their rule of law and this will be the ultimate OWG!
When the Khans spoke from the floor of the Democrat National Convention they entered the political fray. They may not have realized it, but their actions put them in a position of praise and criticism. Their son’s death was tragic. I’m sorry for their loss. I’m sure this isn’t the only Muslim who has died or been severely injured fighting for this country.
Donald Trump is on shaky ground when he goes after the family of a soldier who died in service of this country. That’s a line that most people don’t want to see anyone cross. Donald Trump should make clear that he isn’t against all Muslims but that he wants to put a halt on taking in the refugees until we can be sure that we aren’t bringing terrorists into our country.
Donald really needs to put more thought into some of his remarks. His “loose cannon” nature scares a lot of voters who are looking for an alternative to Hillary Clinton.
Hillary claims Trump is temperamentally unfit for office because he wonders aloud whether a headscarf covered Muslim wife , maintaining silence next to her DNC propagandist husband, has the right to speak. Anyone might wonder who has any knowledge of Islam.
Hillary herself has spread a string of lies about her emails, all admitted publically under cross examination by Comey, director of the FBI. The 30,000 missing e mails were just wedding and personal correspondence, while the DNC claims they are about national security.
The Video lie caused Americans in Benghazi to be thrown under a bus for electoral advantage.
The Clinton Foundation’s bona fidas are under investigation.
Hillary supports left wing activist judicial appointments to usurp congress and subvert the constitution.What could be more thumbsucking and derisive of the Consitution than to find same sex marriage within it?
Hillary supports state paid abortion without limit and including partial birth abortion without limit.
Chambers dictionary defines murder to include excessive and reprehensible killing ,not legally murder. 50m killings since Roe.v Wade could not be bettered as a fulfilment of this description.
In what way are leading democrats, including Hillary, superior to the Commandant of Auswitz?
Does all this make her temperamentally suitable to be supreme commander?
Unfortunately, Mr. Khan has politicized his son’s death by attacking Donald Trump at the DNC. He should have renounced the acts of his co-religionist one of which was a U.S.. Army Major, Nidal Hasan. Both Captain Khan and Major Hasan took an oath to defend the U.S. and uphold the Constitution, but Major Hasan violated the oath killing 13 and wounding 32 at Fort Hood Texas in the name of Allah. We know nothing of Captain Khan so was he defending the U.S. or seeking 72 virgins in Paradise? Mr. Khan needs to step forward and make his own loyalty known.
Check out Walid Shoebat’s article about Khan.
He claims he supports the Muslim Brotherhood and Sharia law
Capt. Khan fought & died in the war in 2004. I, and fellow Americans mourn the loss of our military lives no matter what their origin was. The Khan family obviously left their home country and came to America to live under American Law and values, hoping for a better life, I think. Obviously Capt. Khan displayed his preference and strong feelings AGAINST terrorist nations, extreme Islamists & extreme Muslims, when he joined the service to defend the American way of life. Extreme Muslim terrorists have killed & continue killing, not only Americans, but Muslims, throughout the world. How many Muslims died on 911? Trump wasn’t saying Capt. Khan shouldn’t come to America; Capt. Khan had already assimilated himself into America. Trump is trying to prevent terrorists, from IMPERSONATING refugees from gaining access to our nation and further killing Americans……..When terrorists drop these bombs in populated areas, they are not weeding out Muslims, Syrians, etc from being killed by their bombs. Khan would have been considered an American, fighting for the American cause, at his time of death. I think the Khan family, living in America should not have thought that Trump was against their son. Unfortunately, we Americans are not only fighting terrorists, but also an “ECONOMIC COUP” where Government continues to try to “OVERTHROW THE PEOPLE”. Americans have become poor. Poor people are easily ruled, especially when hungry. Hil-LIAR-y is using PEOPLE’s losses in her efforts to win. Hil-LIAR-y works and mingles in the diversified world, yet, at the end of the day, she goes home to White Suburbia. Hil-LIAR-y fights for gun control on Americans, yet is surrounded by gun-toting secret service. “We, the People”, are told to “go about our business”, “you can’t live in fear”. We, the People, are on the front lines, like Pawns in a chess game. We, the People, are the first “HIT” when attacked……..Hil-LIAR-y & Government then have time to seed the security of BUNKERS.
Why are these people any more special
Than any other father and mother who
Lost a son or daughter in a war. Because
Theyre muslim?. Get real. I’m sure
Any parent has a deep grief when their
Children die. No one forced his son
To fight.
I didn’t think Muslims were allowed to kill other Muslims while serving in an infidel army, which is exactly what the U.S. Army is.
This is where PC causes a problem. Americans refer to the enemy as Radical Islamic Terrorists, but the POTUS never does. I am sure that the Khan’s have many Muslim loved ones. Just as all of us have ours. We want everybody to be safe, and not have to worry about our neighbors being murdered. The Constitution gives the responsibility to the Federal Government. That is why Visas are offered, and background checks are done on every applicant. As a nation we have watched as flag covered coffins are unloaded over the past 8 years, and we all mourn for all those losses. We all know that our soldiers died to protect their country and loved ones. Same as your son who sacrificed himself to protect you.
Some muslim waves a pocket version of the Constitution in Trump’s face and scolds Trump for not reading It and Trump is supposed to shut up?
That’s how McCain and Romney lost. They didn’t want to offend the standards of the political left.
I don’t care if the son died at the hands of his own religion, it was aggressively inappropriate to get Muslims on stage to scold and insult Trump.
I like McCain as well as I like Jane Fonda, you get the correlation? Just thinking about the past.
I am a Disabled Vietnam Veteran, served with the 101st Airborne Division, and was awarded the Bronze Star. McCain is nothing but a mouth, riding on his POW status for years now. What he won’t talk about is his Presidential Pardon from President Nixon for TREASON! I feel for these parents for the loss of their fallen soldier son, but what Mr. Kahn doesn’t understand, is that people wanting to come into our Country have no rights under our Constitution! You only have rights after you become a Citizen! Trump is absolutely right about keeping Muslims out of our country, untill we can determine where their allegiance lies! People should only be allowed into our country, if they are wanting to become an American, and learn our language, our ways, and our laws, and not to try to change our Country into something like the one they left to come here!
John McCain has no business attacking Trump, the man is evil and has caused the death of too many Airmen and planes during the Vietnam war. Mr. Kahn is a shill for the Saudi Govt. and his speciality is getting his clients into the USA. His bio is on many sites; not a good man.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/01/john-mccain-aid-and-comfort/
A fair comparison to McCain would be Jane Fonda. Both spent time in North Vietnam.
Both are accused of helping North Vietnam, Fonda by being photographed and McCain by doing many propaganda broadcasts and helping the enemy plan attacks on American soldiers.
Fonda returned to be reviled and spit on while McCain returned to the Senate, spending years helping North Vietnam keep Americans prisoner and amassing a huge fortune trading on heroism and sacrifice we are now told never happened.
Of the two, Fonda was the more honest and by far had done the least harm to the United States.
According to sources, it was John McCain that fired the rocket that caused the Forrestal incident, the most serious disaster on an American ship. No tally as to how many pilots were shot down using intel McCain admits giving the North Vietnamese has been made. The Forrestal incident may be a huge coverup in itself.
John McCain has no business attacking Trump, the man is evil and has caused the death of too many Airmen and planes during the Vietnam war. Mr. Kahn is a shill for the Saudi Govt. and his speciality is getting his clients into the USA. His bio is on many sites; not a good man.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2009/10/01/john-mccain-aid-and-comfort/
A fair comparison to McCain would be Jane Fonda. Both spent time in North Vietnam.
Both are accused of helping North Vietnam, Fonda by being photographed and McCain by doing many propaganda broadcasts and helping the enemy plan attacks on American soldiers.
Fonda returned to be reviled and spit on while McCain returned to the Senate, spending years helping North Vietnam keep Americans prisoner and amassing a huge fortune trading on heroism and sacrifice we are now told never happened.
Of the two, Fonda was the more honest and by far had done the least harm to the United States.
According to sources, it was John McCain that fired the rocket that caused the Forrestal incident, the most serious disaster on an American ship. No tally as to how many pilots were shot down using intel McCain admits giving the North Vietnamese has been made. The Forrestal incident may be a huge coverup in itself.
Khan shamefully dishonered his son by attacking Trump. Khans grievence should have been directed at OBamas and Killarys disastrous policy’s that got him killed. We are sorry for his loss. This was a political charade. Khan allowed himself to be used by democrats for self promoting. Khan is also a Lawyer for Muslim American and is an advocate for the very people that killed his son. Suggesting we know who the people are coming to our shores is common sense. And Khan is a CON.
I just read all the articles and I feel that the one fact that your all missing is that BOTH the Republican & Democratic party’s are corrupt. If you all really listened in the debates, everything said by both party’s was basically ” VOTE FOR OUR PARTY” nothing was said about voting for the voter’s wants or needs. Once either of these partys gets elected then it will just be ‘piss on you voters’ now that were elected we’ll do as our party wills and take all the money we can get for ourselves. (don’t know but I would not do the same in that situation. I’d like to believe I would stay honest.)
In one of the pages above a guy (Paul?) was talking about McConnell, Ryan & McCain and man did he hit the nail on the head. All 3 should be kicked out of gov.
OH, On McCain– I really believe he’s no hero and have felt this way since the ’60s when it first came up.
And,on that same subject , I don’t agree every military person is a ‘HERO!’ When I joined a hero was considered as a soldier who ‘went above & beyon the call of duty’.
One writer above 101’st airborn, bronze star for gallantry (hello, true hero) respect to you sir.
I had some very good friends who went to viet nam. One came back with his legs blown off from a bouncing betty mine . He did not consider himself a hero, just unlucky!
Another friend in viet-nam , in Kay San when they were over-run, ran out from cover to drag a wounded soldier out of line of fire and was shot himself. He still dragged the wounded soldier to a safer place , saw another guy get hit and went back to drag him back and was hit twice more. He got a silver star & bronze star(well deserved) and is a true hero for his “above&beyon ” acts.—but , he did not consider himself a hero and still don’t.
What he say’s is ‘ No,us guys and the soldiers fighting now didn’t really join the military to protect and keep our country safe. We were all young and joined because we wanted the excitement and a job. A lot of guy’s joined so they could see what it like to shoot people and be shot at. We joined on our own free will and those of us that got shot, crippled or post traumatic stress , we don’t consider ourselves hero’s, we wanted to go and we were the unlucky one’s who got killed or hurt.’
Guess that kind of sums it up, and one other thing he feels is political is how now everyone is being called “a warrior” , what the hell soldier,sailor,airman,marine,seal—all were good enough in the the 1st,2nd,Korea,VietNam,Somalia to be called by those names—what the hells ‘warriors’, we’re not all indians! and thousands of us joined and never saw combat!
Well, whatever, I guess. Everyone has their belief’s & feelings.
Clinton to me is a danger, Trump—if he follows McConnell & Ryan , so is he. Damn if I know how to vote @ this time. Not confident in either choice , Trump I guess or write in my own candidate.