Just Saying | John McCain was a chronic warmonger, not a war hero
Yonden Lhatoo sets the record straight about the US war veteran and elder statesman, who is being deified by even his lifelong political foes as a ‘true American hero’ following his death from brain cancer
“Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran,” John McCain once “jokingly” sang on the campaign trail in 2007 for the 2008 US presidential election.
The purported “war hero” and elder statesman was parodying the old Beach Boys anthem, Barbara Ann, when responding to a bloodthirsty potential voter demanding to know when the United States would send an “airmail message” to punish Iran for its nuclear ambitions.
I don’t know about the Beach Boys, but the lyrics of the Black Sabbath classic, War Pigs, spring to mind whenever I think of McCain: Generals gathered in their masses / Just like witches at black masses / Evil minds bent on destruction / Sorcerers of death’s construction.
You get the picture. Now hold that thought while you’re assaulted by saturation media coverage as what appears to be about half of America mourns the death of the Vietnam war veteran and six-term Arizona senator, who lost his final battle against brain cancer at the age of 81.
The eulogies are piling up, each trying to outdo the other in deifying him as a “true American hero”. But was he anything of that sort, really?