Has McCain ever referred to the Vietnamese as anything other than "The Enemy"?

[hedgehog]

Given that the Vietnam War was presented as a feint by the Soviet Union , does he still think of Russia as "The Enemy"?

[Warren Stupidity]

1. Yes, he referred to them as 'the gooks'. nt.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Shit. You beat me to it.

Also slopes, dinks, and slant-eyes.

[City Lights]

4. He hates them, and will hate them as long as he lives.

"I hate the gooks," McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live."

http://www.americablog.com/2008/02/i-hate-gooks-john-mccain.html

[Arnold Judas Rimmer]

5. Except for the one that drew the cross in the dirt

That fucking Gook bastard was OK, because he loved Jesus.
:sarcasm:

[Spazito]

14. LOL and bingo!

:thumbsup:

[chatnoir]

26. Jesus, is that for real?? He actually said that??

I was hoping it was satire :-(

[XemaSab]

8. .

:thumbsup:

[BlooInBloo]

10. Lots of Vietnam vets do that - I've seen it on DU.

[Warren Stupidity]

11. I have seen a lot of unacceptable crap on DU.

But please do not consign 'lots of vietnam vets' to the same racist asshat category that McCain is in. A brief google of DU indicates that this is not common usage here, other than in discussions regarding McCain's racist bile and the derogatory nature of the term 'gook'.

[BlooInBloo]

12. Uh... it's just plain true. Lots of Vietnam vets continue to refer to Vietnamese folks as "gooks"...

At no point did I make any claim about it being "common" on DU.

[Warren Stupidity]

16. None that I know.

That was my generation, and I can't actually recall the last time I heard or saw the term gook used by anyone outside of discussions here on DU. It isn't just plain true, it is just plain your opinion that it is true.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Yes, because you haven't seen it, it isn't so.

[Warren Stupidity]

25. I give up on what your point was.

gooks is not used here on DU any more than nigger is used here on DU - it is considered unacceptably offensive by everyone here, regardless of their vietnam service. It is a vile racist term and defending McCain's use of it by claiming, as you did that vietnam veterans routinely use that word here on DU, is insulting.

"Lots of Vietnam vets do that - I've seen it on DU." - that's bullshit and insulting.

[karynnj]

18. Have any of the Democratic Vietnam Veterans?

Kerry was offended with the usage even in Vietnam from the journals and letters quoted in Tour of Duty. I have never read any of the Democratic vets in Congress speaking that way.

[BlooInBloo]

19. I don't know. And I never said any of those specific people did....

Uh... there are LOTS of Vietnam vets you realize.

[MrsT]

21. Which Vietnam Vet politicians use the word "gooks?"

I hold our presidential candidates to a higher standard, I don't know if you do.

[BlooInBloo]

23. I have no idea. At no point did I say any did....

What is this? Put-words-in-people's-mouth-that-they-didn't-say-day or something?

[IndianaGreen]

13. When he says "Bomb, bomb, bomb.. bomb Iran," he really means bomb Vietnam

McCain is stuck in Southeast Asia, perhaps convinced that the US could had won that war if we had just bombed them until there was no one left alive.

[hedgehog]

24. It's rather ironic considering that the disaster on the Forestall was

directly tied to the pressure to bomb the hell out of Viet Nam. The initial rocket mis-fire happened because safety steps were omitted in an effort to get the jets launched faster. What should have been a minor incident turned into a disaster because the jets were carrying unstable WWII era bombs. Those bombs were dragged up out of storage in the Philippines because the munitions factories couldn't keep up with the demand.

[dkf]

2. Everybody is the enemy. Maybe being a POW made him paranoid.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. Pardon my ignorance, but wasn't it China sending troops into Viet nam?

[hedgehog]

9. I have no idea of how much support China gave to Viet Nam,

but the mantra of the time was that everything was being run out of the Kremlin as part of a massive plan to take over the world.

[Ikonoklast]

22. Never.

Viet Nam to this day is afraid of Chinese hegemony; that is why they allied themselves with the USSR at the time.

To this day, Chinese maps of "Greater China" include most of SE Asia, including Viet Nam.

[WinkyDink]

27. No.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

7. Compare and contrast with Sen. Jim Webb,

who is married to a beautiful Vietnamese woman.

[rucky]

15. How about this scary Vietnamese enemy?

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

17. Is that Thich Nhat Hanh? nt

[rucky]

28. The one and only.

scary, huh?