MOAR MCSTAIN

Was Rambo Right?

By RON UNZ • July 1, 2010

In the closing days of the 2008 presidential campaign, I clicked an ambiguous link on an obscure website and stumbled into a parallel universe.

During the previous two years of that long election cycle, the media narrative surrounding Sen. John McCain had been one of unblemished heroism and selfless devotion to his fellow servicemen. Thousands of stories on television and in print had told of his brutal torture at the hands of his North Vietnamese captors, his steely refusal to crack, and his later political career aimed at serving the needs of fellow Vietnam veterans. This storyline had first reached the national stage during his 2000 campaign, then returned with even greater force as he successfully sought the 2008 Republican nomination. Seemingly accepted by all, this history became a centerpiece of his campaign. McCain’s supporters touted his heroism as proof that he possessed the character to be entrusted with America’s highest office, while his detractors merely sought to change the subject.

Once I clicked that link, I encountered a very different John McCain.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150725065131/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/was-rambo-right/

The POW issue was born during the Watergate scandal. Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger knew Hanoi was secretly keeping American prisoners, but in the spring of 1973, they were in no position to get a Democratic Congress to pay ransom to North Vietnam.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150630192153/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/john-leboutillier/

>Gareth Porter (this article opposing point of view from schanberg who won Pulitzer for his expose on the topic) • July 1, 2010

Sydney Schanberg has an illustrious journalistic career going back to the Vietnam War. But in peddling the story of an alleged high-level cover-up of U.S. prisoners of war said to have been left behind after the war, he has inexplicably swallowed one of history’s spectacular frauds. Schanberg’s article incorporates deceptions that have built this political myth, which has been successfully exploited by ambitious and unprincipled figures for decades.

https://web.archive.org/web/20150630192222/http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/gareth-porter/

the three links are to articles directly related to mccain cover up. excerpts below

WHAT A BLESSED MAN

JFK Tried to Warn Us

“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”

-John F. Kennedy

Listen to an excerpt from his speech at the 1962 Yale commencement:

(Link to the article containing the video of JFK Speech)

http://www.elusivetruth.com/health-care-industry-concerned-about-their-financial-health-not-your-health/

JFK Yale Commencement Speech

This blog will relentlessly pursue truth, however elusive, even when it is virtually impossible to know it for sure.

That message from the ’62 Yale commencement speech wasn’t the only important thing JFK felt it necessary to warn us about. I’ve heard this JFK speech on secret societies many times; but only recently did I come to the realization that the audience was the American Newspaper Publishers Association. That amplifies the importance of his words, adding the “why” to the “what”. The repeated failures of the mainstream media to challenge the United States government on important issues in recent years seem to indicate Kennedy could see it coming. I think he did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces <<< direct to video on YT

VIDEO

The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmCEx-f0dfI

Published on 27 Aug 2013

The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza presented a panel discussion featuring Former Secret Service agents Gerald Blaine and Clint Hill and author Lisa McCubbin talking with The Sixth Floor Museum's Curator Gary Mack about what happened on November 22, 1963 and in the months leading up to and following President Kennedy's assassination.

This presentation took place on November 20, 2010 as part of a tour to promote their book, "The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence" (2010). To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (http://emuseum.jfk.org). Or make a research appointment to explore the books, DVDs and other materials available in the Museum's Reading Room (http://www.jfk.org/go/reading-room).

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A SHIFT FROM

'The choice to know will be yours'.. < inevitable no longer much choice only a matter of time

The choice to believe will count

😎or not