As Vets Take to the Streets to Protest the War, McCain Snubs IVAW at
the RNC

By Liliana Segura, AlterNet. Posted September 6, 2008.

"War hero" McCain voted against healthcare funding for veterans in
2003, '04, '05, '06 and '07. Now veterans are confronting him on his
record.

When retired Army First Sergeant Wes Davey arrived, in uniform, at the
Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul to deliver a letter to fellow veteran
John McCain, it didn't take long for him to be turned away. "They
wouldn't even meet me," he said later, standing on the steps of the
Minnesota State Capitol, on what was to be day one of the Republican
National Convention. Instead, the 28-year veteran of the Army Reserve
and former St. Paul police officer was escorted off the premises.

Davey had come to the site of the RNC along with 60 fellow members of
Iraq Veterans Against the War, who marched in formation, chanting
cadences and leading hundreds of peaceful fellow protesters, including...