Here's What Senator John McCain has to say about Webb's "Lost Soldiers"

[berni_mccoy]

From http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780440240914&view=quotes

“James Webb’s new novel paints a portrait of a modern Vietnam charged with hopes for the future but haunted by the ghosts of its war-torn past. It captures well the lingering scars of the war, and exposes the tension between the dynamism of a new generation and the invisible bondage of an older generation for whom wartime allegiances, and animosities, are rendered no less vivid by the passage of time. A novel of revenge and redemption that tells us much about both where Vietnam is headed and where it has been.”
— Senator John McCain

For any idiot repukes who try to paint this as weird or strange morals from Webb, this is what a REAL VIETNAM VETERAN, SOMEONE WHO WAS ACTUALLY OVER THERE had to say about the book. The excerpt the idiot brain-dead repukes are quoting from the book is a cultural practice from that part of the world and it's an observation that a soldier in the position of the main character of the book would have made.

Obviously, McCain, A REAL VIETNAM VETERAN, did not find it strange or weird.

[DesertRat]

1. Thanks for this.

:kick:

[berni_mccoy]

2. .

You are welcome.

Freeps like drudge are complete idiots who get duped by the stupidest little things... they are the reason snopes.com exists.

[hopein08]

3. I don't know about that...

Isn't it supposedly quite rare to have someone actually read the book before they review it?

I mean, I can see wanting to hit back at Allen & Drudge's claims...but are we giving McCain too much credit? Not taking a thing away from his service, just questioning whether or not he really read the book.

Maybe it's just my over-exuberant pre-election partisanship talking:evilgrin: :evilgrin:.

Just my humble opinion.