SOURCE: Truthout.org 10-7-08
John McCain’s personal account of his life has shaped a powerful political narrative that accords him deference on the full range of policy issues. His first effort at shaping that narrative received a remarkable boost when the May 14, 1973, edition of U.S. News & World Report gave him space for what is perhaps the longest article the magazine had ever run, a 12,000-word piece composed entirely of his unedited and often rambling account of his prisoner-of-war experience. Ever since, McCain has added compelling details at key points in his political career. When his stories are placed beside documented evidence from other sources, significant contradictions often emerge. One such case involves McCain’s experience in the devastating fire and explosions that killed 134 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War three months before he was shot down over North Vietnam. McCain has made claims about this accident that differ dramatically from parts of the official Navy report and accounts of reliable eyewitnesses..........To Read More......
My Take - I've said history will not be kind to John McCain, and this is just one small segment of his history and one thing is clear as a bell. He makes things up to make himself look good, irrespective of the facts. Time and history isn't on his side.
Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality. Everything we're told has an historical foundation and context. Everything we're told should bear some relationship with what we're seeing going on in reality. If what's presented to us fails in either of those categories, it's wrong. And McCain's presentation of his history, military and civilian, doesn't bode well in the category of truth.
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