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Edited on Thu Jun-12-08 01:38 AM by ConsAreLiars
I think he exposes his sickness every time he touts his POW experience. The usual phrase he uses to explain why the US military should continue murdering Iraqis is something to the effect that "the troops should come home after victory and not in defeat."
Consider his life experience. Daddy and Granddaddy were Admirals in the Navy. Despite their pull, he barely got through the Naval Academy, fifth from the bottom of his class. Still, because of whatever childhood traumas that deformed him, he persisted in his attempt to follow that same path. So he got pilot training (starting to sound familiar?). Unlike the coke-addled millionaire chimpanzee, he was delusional enough to think that by taking that training and going off to murder Vietnamese he would get some points on his way to matching or exceeding Pappy and Grampa. Of course, being an incompetent asshole he wrecked 4 or 5 planes (what incompetent pilot gets that many free passes?) and on the last crash ended up having his life saved by the people he was trying to bomb.
And then, he was not only kept alive rather than being murdered by his captors, but was returned home only after "his side" had been so thoroughly defeated and disgraced that his fantasies of being seen as a "war hero" were completely demolished. All of the world and most of the people of the US regarded that war as something along the lines of being wrong, pointless, misguided or utterly evil. Those who participated in that war felt themselves to be pariahs, and unfortunately were sometimes treated that way. At best, participation in it was something that was not mentioned in polite circles.
But that didn't put an end to McCain's ambition. So he dumped his formerly attractive disabled wife, postured as a heroic victim (good trick, that, since he got there by was crashing yet another plane), teamed up with the powerful in his home state, married an heiress and got himself funded as a jingoist Republican politician in state where jingoist right wing rhetoric played well.
So give him credit. He is obsessed. He will do anything. Despite his ignorance and stupidity, he is driven as only madmen can be driven. Right and wrong, reason, justice, none of these mean anything. Hell bent, and the rest of the world be damned. He has something to prove, and the consequences of his attempt to prove himself even more powerful than all previous "leaders" mean nothing at all.
This is truly "Chimpy, The Depraved Psychopathic Monster -- Part Two: Even Sicker."
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