Senator John McCain’s fierce stance against repealing the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law has brought about speculation of his hatred for homosexuals. While McCain cites the hardships that military members face in Iraq and Afghanistan, many others are accusing the senator of attempting to bury his own skeletons.
As McCain has made clear to everyone of voting age, at one time he was shot down and held as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam. Recently, documents discovered in Vietnam dating from February of 1968 to August 1972, have surfaced. Vietnamese officials claim these documents to be the personal journals of John McCain during his time as a POW.
While these newly discovered transcripts may seem, initially, to substantiate McCain’s opinion on “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (as a veteran and former testicular electro-shock recipient), the details of the documents released by the Vietnamese government tell an entirely different side.
It is claimed that these documents contain McCain’s very detailed and erotic homosexual fantasies involving torture methods and a man named ‘Po’. The documents further describe the author’s desire to indulge in these fetishes and share them with others, without shaming America. The author also describes that he longs to one day move somewhere “really hot and dry, away from the jungle” and even wrestles with the idea of getting into politics, at one point claiming, “I might even run for president, twice!”
While skeptics are decrying these transcripts to be forgeries, Vietnamese officials have vowed to bring forth the documents and prove their authenticity. Fellow senator Susan Margaret, who is seated next to McCain in the senate commented, “It totally makes sense. Not once did I ever catch him trying to stare down my blouse or anything. He would just always stare at Rich (Shelby) in front of us with this hungry look.”
Dan Rather has refused to comment on the authenticity of the papers.
As Sarah said about John McCain once:
“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not why a ship is built.”
Brian, what the GOP means by “support OUR troops” are the white, middle class, christian troops who are, or pretend to be heterosexual. I bet Washington at Valley Forge wouldn’t have told someone to go home because he was a homosexual. Oh, I forgot, they didn’t have homosexuals back then. My bad.
What astounds me is the dichotomy. These individuals fight to protect our country, but they have to essentially lie about who they are. The “unit cohesion” argument is nonsense since these individuals are already serving in the forces.
What if you went to work every day and you had to deny that you had children. A wife or girlfriend, sure, but you couldn’t admit that you had kids (and you couldn’t put them on your family insurance plan.)
The day you goof up and let slip with the fact that you were at Chuck E. Cheese on Sunday, well that’s the day you lose the right to put your life on your line to protect your country.
Support our troops, GOP, that’s your mantra.
As for DADT, some day we’re going to look back with astonishment that any form of a communication gap was allowed to exist in the military.