Retired New Mexico general attacks McCain's judgment
While Michelle Obama steered clear of attacks on Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain during her visits to the state Thursday, that wasn't the case with retired Air Force Gen. Melvyn Montaño, who suggested that McCain's policy stemmed from a "lack of adequate psychological care" after his service in Vietnam.
In an Associated Press piece by Barry Massey that was picked up by the Air Force Times and numerous other outlets, Montaño, the former head of the New Mexico National Guard, recalled McCain's statement that U.S. soldiers could remain in Iraq for 100 years and said:
“I don’t understand his position. I can attribute it probably to some of the things we’ve talked about here — lack of adequate psychological care.”
Montaño then grinned and chuckled as the crowd roared, according to the report.
This isn't the first time Montaño has publicly criticized McCain. In a letter to the editor published July 11 in the Albuquerque Journal, entitled "McCain No Friend of Military," Montaño wrote:
"... I was a member of a group of retired officers who met in Washington, D.C., two years ago to support the McCain Amendment, which would adhere to the Geneva Convention to ensure humane treatment of prisoners of war and to cease the torture of the same. Our group solidly supported the amendment.
"Then, to my surprise, McCain sided with the president on this issue. ... This seems to be McCain's style of operation, or perhaps he has mental lapses. Remember, he was a prisoner for five years; this has to have had an effect on him.
"Always, the paramount thought in the minds of soldiers deployed to a military zone is: 'When am I going home?' I am sure McCain had the same thought as a prisoner of war. I know I did when I was in Vietnam.
"How can McCain say, with a straight face, that he hates war and wants to keep Americans safe, with programs such as 'stop loss,' multiple rotations and giving soldiers less than a year between rotations? He must surely think Americans are stupid."
Comments:
Posted 09/05/2008 11:00 with
What scares me is that the GOP has chosen two morons to save this nation.
We have a man at the top of the ticket that was in the bottom of his class intellectually.
And the person that is 1/2 a breath away from the presidency flunked out of 5 colleges before she received her diploma from the University of Idaho. I cant wait to see where she placed in her graduating class!
But what else is new we elected a moron to lead this nation and look where it got us.
Posted 09/05/2008 11:20 with
Wow, kwaayesnama, you are sure racking up a reputation for copy-pasting comments onto multiple articles (clicking on your name shows all comments you have posted, or, in your case, how many other places you have put the same comment).
The great thing about comments is that you can speak your mind. But please, don’t abuse this opportunity by plastering the same comments multiple times in multiple places on the same site.
Posted 09/05/2008 14:33 with
Speaking your mind would entail having a mind, spouting dogma on the hand and replastering it all over requires much less in the way of mental capabilities…...