Why Is McCain So Supportive Of Bush &
Cheney?
Wayne
Madsen | January 17 2006
Why is John McCain so supportive of Bush
and Cheney after being so viciously attacked by them in the 2000 campaign?
The answer to this question may partially rest in Navy records detailing
the events that took place on the USS Forrestal in "Yankee Station"
in the Gulf of Tonkin at the end of July 1967. The neo-cons, who have had
five years to examine every file within the Department of Defense, have
likely accessed documents that could prove embarrassing to McCain, who was
on board the USS Forrestal on July 29, 1967, and whose A-4 Skyhawk was struck
by an air-to-ground Zuni missile that had misfired from an F-4 Phantom.
What have sealed Navy records given to the neo-cons to blackmail McCain?
Plenty, according to eyewitness on the USS Forrestal.
According to an eyewitness to the Navy's worst fire disaster that killed
134 sailors and injured 62, McCain and the Forrestal's skipper, Capt. John
K. Beling, were warned about the danger of using M-65 1000-lb. bombs manufactured
in 1935, which were deemed too dangerous to use during World War II and,
later, on B-52 bombers. The fire from the Zuni misfire resulted in the heavy
1000 pounders being knocked loose from the pylons of McCain's A-4, which
were only designed to hold 500-pound bombs.
During the fighting of the fire and while VF-74 and VF-11 were still counting
their dead, McCain was helicoptered off the Forrestal to the USS Oriskany,
which suffered a major fire on October 27, 1966, that killed 44 sailors.
In that event, thousand pound bombs were jettisoned away from the fire but
the lessons of the Oriskany went unheeded by the Forrestal's officers, including
McCain, who served with the VA-163 Saints on board the Oriskany when the
fire on that vessel occurred. On October 26, 1967, McCain was shot down
over North Vietnam during a bombing sortie from the Oriskany.
Aug. 29, 2005 -- Bush celebrating McCain's 69th birthday with a cake. Bush
and his operatives may have more than a cake up their sleeves when it comes
to McCain's Navy record prior to his time as a POW.
The unstable bombs had a 60-second cook-off threshold in a fire situation
and this warning was known to both Beling and McCain prior to the disaster.
On January 14, 1969, the USS Enterprise, steaming 75 miles southwest of
Pearl Harbor, suffered a major fire. In that episode, similar unstable 1000-pound
bombs detonated, killing 27 sailors and injuring more than 100. At the time
of the Enterprise disaster, the Commander-in- Chief of US Pacific Forces
was Adm. John S. McCain, Jr.,Sen. McCain's father.
At the time of the Forrestal disaster, Admiral McCain was Commander-in-Chief
of US Naval Forces Europe (CINCUSNAVEUR) and was busy covering up the details
of the deadly and pre-meditated Israeli attack on the NSA spy ship, the
USS Liberty, on June 8, 1967. The fact that both McCains were involved in
two incidents just weeks apart that resulted in a total death count of 168
on the Forrestal and the Liberty, with an additional injury count of 234
on both ships (with a number of them later dying from their wounds) with
an accompanying classified paper trail inside the Pentagon, may be all that
was needed to hold a Sword of Damocles over the head of the "family
honor"-oriented (McCain's persona is supported by his book about his
father and grandfather, both Navy admirals, titled "Faith of My Fathers")
and the "straight talking" McCain.
The Bush administration and neo-cons may have uncovered reams of documents
that throw cold water on that public perception. STORY IN PROGRESS.
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