Tuesday, April 8, 2008
I've never liked Senator Jay Rockefeller much, and this doesn't help.
Rockefeller believes McCain has become insensitive to many human issues. "McCain was a fighter pilot, who dropped laser-guided missiles from 35,000 feet. He was long gone when they hit.
"What happened when they [the missiles] get to the ground? He doesn't know. You have to care about the lives of people. McCain never gets into those issues."
So McCain, who put his life on the line doing his duty and protecting ordinary Americans is somehow less sensitive to the needs of those same people? Surreal.
By the way, LGB's didn't go operational in Vietnam until 1968, a year after John McCain was shot down serving his country.
Update 4/9: Rockefeller apologizes.
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Rockefeller is demonstrably wrong about his "facts". McCain was shot down in 1967 and no laser guided missiles were dropped until later in the war:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser-guided_bomb
"The USAF issued the first development contracts in 1964, leading to the development of the Paveway series, which was used operationally in Vietnam starting in 1968."