On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 8:54 AM, Mugsy Lunsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At 5:29 PM -0500 10/10/08, richardsan san said: > >On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Michael Luscombe > > >Not everyone who talks to a communist or communist sympathizer > >becomes a communist. If that were the case, wouldn't John McCain want > >to run the country like Vietnam? Some sensible characterization of > >those meetings is in order. Plenty of Republicans worked with Bill > >Ayers as well. > > > > mccain has at least a 5 year history of communicating with > communists. > >didn't he give them more than just name,rank and serial number? > > I was on a work crew with a Nam vet this week, and got an earful over > lunch one afternoon when someone made a joking comment about the > election. Seems the vet was on the Forrestal when the missile went > off and killed 134 crewmen, and a lot of his fellow survivors were > convinced that McCain was responsible for that incident - I didn't > understand all of what he said since he became quite passionate while > reliving the scene, and began speaking in military acronyms. > Something about fooling around with afterburners and a flareout > touching off the missile. This vet closed his rant with an assurance > that he was also certain that McCain's plane was fragged out of the > sky by his peers who were tired of his risky behavior. I'd been > listening with shock probably showing on my face, and he turned to me > and said "Fragged! Do you know what that means, to be fragged? It > means your own side thinks you don't deserve to live!" The rest of us > simply listened, dumb-founded. That's the first I've heard of any of > that, but the guy was extremely serious and very very angry, kept > referring to McCain as "Songbird." Got up and stormed off after he > finished talking, and the rest of the crew agreed to avoid talking > about politics around him. I keep meaning to ask a pilot about this, > since I don't understand how the missile could have been set off like > that in the first place. > > maybe something like putting a box of firecrackers near the exhaust of a nitro burning car and the flare out igniting them...? wow, if the fragging thing is accurate, it lends some cred. to his ill personality. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "StrataList-OT" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/StrataList-OT?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
