"To see McCain resort to playing the POW card when answering legitimate
questions, in my mind, cheapens that experience.

And by cheapening his own experience in war, he degrades all of our
experiences in war. He turns the horrific incidents we've all seen, touched,
smelled, and felt into a lame excuse to earn political points. And it
dishonors us all."
-- Brandon Friedman, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan
Dear Connie,

John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every chance
he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not knowing how
many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital infidelities to his
taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using his POW story in paid ads.
But now a veteran who was a prisoner with McCain in Vietnam is explaining
loud and clear that being a POW does not qualify McCain to lead our country.

Dr. Phillip Butler knew McCain as a fellow POW. Watch and listen!

http://bravenewfilms.org/watch/291503141/51429

On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 08:54:34 -0700, "Paul Rons"
wrote:

Get a Life and learn to comprehend Politics.

In Political Campaigns, if you don't want to answer the question, the
thing to do is answer some Other Question.

And please - don't try to assert that Being a POW is an experience
that's somehow positive. Surviving it is positive. Many didn't.

Being one is Not Positive. It's an experience that every single POW
could and would as lief have done without entirely.