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hlthe2b

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4. I think he is haunted with the mantel of "hero" from Vietnam, because I think he

Reply to pangaia (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:45 AM

Feb 2014

gave the North Vietnamese the info they wanted--and which very well may have led to many dead GIs. The issue isn't what I think of that or others think of that, but what McCain, himself--his subconscious--thinks of what he did.

Maintaining the "act" all these years must surely be exhausting.

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