John McCain

Generally, McCain has supported increased Veterans Benefits and expanding VA services. Where his votes have been absent or against bills marketed as VA Benefit Bills, he claims they were either largely pork bills (new spending on special-interest projects and programs having nothing to do with Vets) with a Vet Benefit frosting on top to make the bill difficult to oppose, or, in the specific case of the Webb Bill, counterproductive to Military retention. McCain supported an alternative to the Webb Bill that would have indexed education benefits to length of service (more education benefits with longer service time), vs. the Webb Bill's full eligibility after a single enlistment.

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very little is noticeable in outward appreance. she looks like any other woman her age. the only sign of her accident is a limp. she sounds like a very lovely woman.

The number of "propaganda tapes" made by McCain and other Prisoners of War has been disputed almost from the time they were first heard.

Remember, the North Vietnamese didn't exactly send cassette tapes to the USA news media. The North Vietnamese Government broadcasted a huge quantity of programs using both AM radio (like we have in the USA) and over Short Wave (International Broadcasting).

Almost all of those broadcasts were intercepted by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) which was and is an overt activity that is part of the CIA. Other recordings were intercepted by the various Military Intelligence organizations, which sent the taped broadcasts to the National Security Agency (NSA).

The NSA has not released any of their tapes, indeed they have not admitted that they still possess the tapes. Their story is that the tapes were erased some 30 years ago.

The FBIS tapes are obtainable from the National Archives, which has a duplication service and will copy the tapes over to CDROMs in .wav format. They do this for people who want to obtain copies of the Nixon, Johnson and Kennedy secret taping of Oval Office conversations. However, you have to wade through hundreds of thousands of hours of scratchy, low-fidelity and static filled tapes; an impossible task for the casual inquirer.

The Archives are not admitting that the FBIS tapes are "searchable" by the name of the individual making the broadcast. Perhaps this is true, perhaps is it not.

I know for a fact that there exist tapes of Prisoners of War who made statements which were broadcast. The Department of Defense POW/MIA Affairs office has their copy. Whether they ever see the light of day, only time will tell -- and that will be long after you and I are dead and gone.

Now, having said all of that background, you absolutely MUST understand that prisoners such as Captain McCain were tortured incessantly. Every day in their lives brought some type of physical injury, torture and pain and suffering. This was the North Vietnamese way of POW treatment. McCain is only one of many POW's who were tortured and forced to make statements at odds with the US Government's position at the time vis a vis the Vietnam War.

Remember that some anti-war protestors went to North Vietnam and made broadcasts of their own free will. Jane Fnda is one of those. Almost all Vietnam Veterans consider such voluntary acts to be treasonous.

It is an established fact that some POW's in the custody of the North Vietnamese acted in a less than honorable manner. Matter of fact, McCain was one of several officers who attempted to press charges against several unnamed individuals whom he observed acting in a manner which was injurious to the other POWs. The President and Secretary of Defense quashed all of those attempts at prosecution. They cited the public spectacle of courts martial which happened after the Korean War POW's were returned by the North Koreans (who also brutally tortured the POWs).

Yes, he does. The wounds he received from torture as a prisoner of war were far more serious than many other combat wounded who received the Purple Heart, so it was certainly deserved.

NEVER!

I'm 11 years old and my parents are 27 and 31. i know young

In the Denver area.

John McCain has supported all free trade legislation. John McCain has clarified his position recently as he tries to define a contrast in the presidential competition. http://articles.latimes.com/2008/mar/01/nation/na-mccain

NO! YOU SHOULDNT BUT IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU PUNCH!

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No, it isn't. The name Juan is John in Spanish. The name John is the English translation of the Hebrew name Yochanan.

I don't and John was my family's pastor from 1992 until he left. We still attend that church and we still don't know why he left. The main impression we got was that no one wanted to talk about it when it was happening and most people still don't want to talk about it. I have been attending church my entire life and have never come across another pastor so genuinely loved by his congregation. His last service was very odd. In other churches, when a pastor leaves, he would preach and there would be a warm farewell. For John's last service, the choir was singing and singing and singing song after song like the band on the Titanic. Finally they brought out John. He said something like "I never thought this would ever happen" and then he was gone. We still attend this church and the staff will occasionally refer to "past struggles" but it is almost like the name and the question that you dare not speak. 2nd answer - I was at the seems-like-it-will-never-end business meeting where his departure was decided. In my opinion, the problem was a disagreement over authority. I, a lifelong Baptist, think John agrees with Baptist teachings on authority and may not realize it. He believes that the pastor should be the highest authority in a church (I agree). But, the Friends church has authorities above the local church and those authorities wanted the church run their way, which was in conflict with John's. Therefore, John had to go. Added 8/24/08 - My understanding is that the main concern was that the Friends Church wanted John to reduce his teaching time so they could increase the singing/music worship. John felt that the amount of time to teach was already limited and that hearing the Word was the most important reason to come to church and therefore should not be reduced any further.

That question is entirely up to you. When we are younger we say that we want to be all kinds of different things! But you never really know until you are older. When you are older you can chose what you want to be. Or chose something that you know you will really like. I hope that this answer helps!

It is unfortunate that people would do this but for some reasons they have of their own they do. Attention, lonliness, jealousy and possibly even control issues over the individual(s) the person have told.

why would any one want to die. if u want to die ure freakin stupid. FAGS

Certain skills were required for the war effort, ship builders, welders, oil refinery workers as well as some farmers.

there's a really good parenting website called gurgle.com. check it out. answer to your question will be on there! My answer is - a lot of patience!!

It could be an insect bite, an alergic reaction or an infection. Try a little over the counter antihistimine, such as benedryl. If it doesn't go away quickly you might want to have a doctor look at it.

im doing a report on him and i have a little so far...John Locke was born August 29, 1632 in Bristol, England.He was a skeptic(a person who demands clear, observable, undoubtable evidence based on expirience before accepting any claim that it is true.)he believes that "impirical data"(the senses) can decieve you.and one more thing.....its ironic that he is ENGLISH (no pun intended) and he influenced U.S.A 's founding fathers

Well, that's what i got so far!Hope it helps!

The current President won that race, so the majority felt that way at least at the time of the election. I don't think it's changed that much since.