YES! They had no problem insulting John Kerry's military service.
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NO! They don't care about McCain. They just want Trump out.
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As a disabled veteran (I enlisted a few months after the Vietnam War ended), there is no question that John McCain was a hero; like him or not. Notwithstanding his long military hertitage, he was a highly skilled Navy fighter pilot (which in itself made him one of the best of the best). He could have taken a desk job given his connections, but didn't. He flew and he did his job. He was downed and captured by NVA and spent several years in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" where we was regularly brutalized. When he finally came home, he didn't bad mouth his country, or the military, nor did he throw his medals away (like John Kerry). Later, he didn't lie and inflate his military service (again, like Kerry). He didn't have to. Personally, I don't care much for McCain's politics, but there's no doubt this man and those like him, are heros in anyone's book. Trump was being Trump with his remarks. He spoke without thinking. He was bad at being interrupted and having to share the spotlight.
Oh Paul! As a pilot, McCain was another Capt. Orr, crashing planes more frequently than he changed his underwear. After murdering women and children, his treatment was infinitely more civilized than the routine torture the US inflicted on about 30,000 Vietnamese in our prison at Cam Rahn Bay. Depriving McCain of martinis and hookers hardly qualifies as torture. He also whined about not being allowed to "maintain military discipline" while in Hanoi; this meant the hundred plus majors and colonels could not run the half dozen enlisted men ragged. After their release those enlisted men said that they had no complaints about their treatment; and McCain accused them of treason and they went right back into prison in Portsmouth. McCain has always been a bootlicker without character.
Roland
The answer is YES, but both statements are true.
Roland