Move along now, nothing to see here, move along.....

I can see where the LSM absolutely has to minimise this story. It's such a personal insult for all those who've faced war and battle and had to take action. At the very best Rockefeller is saying that anyone who has killed in action doesn't care about the lives of people. And that's at the best.

If this story were to gain a great deal of traction, I believe there would be a large number of vets seriously TO'ed. And that would include even those who call themselves Democrats, and those who call themselves liberal and those who call themselves peacemongers. And that, my friends is not what the Demopublicans need 7 months before an election. The Republicrats don't need it either.

"All that is necessary for the trimuph of evil is that good men do nothing."

- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

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"McCain was a fighter(1)(2) pilot, who dropped(3) laser-guided(4) missiles(5) from 35,000 feet(6)(7). He was long gone when they hit.(8) What happened when they (the missiles) get to the ground?(9) He doesn't know.(10) You have to care about the lives of people.(11) McCain never gets into those issues,(12)"

1. Sen. McCain was an Attack pilot not a Fighter pilot.
2. Fighter pilots do not attack ground targets, only Attack and Bomber pilots attack ground targets.
3. Missiles are shot or fired, not dropped.
4. There were no laser-guided munitions when Sen. McCain was flying.
5. The only ground target missiles on an A-4 (Sen. McCain's plane) was a Walleye, which was technically a guided bomb with a camera in the nose.
6. Walleyes and 1000 lb. bombs available for ground targets required much lower altitude. Both had to glide to the target. The Walleye had some guidance, bombs used gravity once the initial inertia from the plane is lost. This required a visual fix on the target. Can't do that from 36,000 feet. There are things in the way at 36,000 feet. Those things are called clouds. We have a nickname for them in the military, we called them "clouds"
7. B-52 bombers were capable of bombing from 35,000 feet. Sen. McCain did not fly B-52's. B-52's were big and slow and carried a lot of bombs. It is hard to be accurate when dropping bombs from 35,000 feet, but when you are dropping lots ("oodles" in milspeak) of bombs, "close is good enough". 35,000 feet is roughly six miles. It is hard to hit something that is six miles away, even if that 6 miles is straight up, this is why B-52's preferred that altitude. Sen McCain flew an A-4. This plane carried at most 4 or 5 bombs. With only a few bombs, accuracy counts, thus a low level attack, as in 5000 to 6000 feet.
8. This is factual. Once you have expended all your weapons, the primary idea is to "bug out". There are 2 reasons for this. A. With no more weapons, no point in sticking around. B. When you blow stuff up, the people that own the stuff tend to get real mad and start shooting at you. Again, no point sticking around. C. The more time you spend over enemy territory, the better your chances of gittin' blowed up. You are supposed to blow stuff up, not git blowed up. **
9. They go boom. duh.
10. Missiles and Bombs go boom. I believe they teach you that in pilot school on day 2. Day 1 is spent learning that "yaw" is a real word and stop giggling back there.
11. The point of having a military is to kill bad people. If every military member had to stop and "care" about everyone they were targeting, we would quickly have to replace all the dead military people with new military people who would then have to stop and "care" and be killed and replaced. See where this is going?
12. I believe Sen. McCain has written an autobiography where he most probably did cover the "issue"
13. Sen. McCain never mentioned punching hippies. That would have been me. ***

** Yes. I know I listed 3 reasons. Just seeing if you are awake.
*** Still checking to see if you are awake.