Perusing John McCain's 2002 book Worth the Fighting For, I noted something very alarming indeed: his confession of his placing false evidence of a illegal substance on two innocent people, even though he knew it could put them in a foreign prison.
Why hasn't this gotten more press?
See McCain's own words below, from the chapter "John Tower's Honor" (pp. 129-130 of the paperback edition I saw),
...Getting caught violating the local custom...could land a fellow in a particularly unpleasant Saudi jail. So whenever we traveled there, I had to smuggle in a dozen or so single-serving bottles of Johnnie Walker obtained on the flight over. These I would deliver to Tower's room....
On one such occasion...I stood in line at a hotel desk waiting to check us in when two Frenchmen decided to cut short their own wait by cutting in front of me. ...
As I passed the Frenchmen's door, I noticed they had set two room service trays...outside their door, providing a place to deposit my empties as well as an opportunity to exact a little vengeance.
(more)
...I assumed that a few confused minutes after being awakened by humorless Saudi police, my two antagonists had probably persuasively pleaded their innocence and avoided arrest. But I wouldn't have been terribly bothered if they had not been so fortunate. The thought of their predicament kept me amused for the rest of the day. Tower exploded in laughter when I told him the story over breakfast....
Among the "problems" in this astounding tale of a ""little prank"" are
- What is a U.S. Senator doing smuggling "drugs" (or at least an illegal substance with a depressive effect on the central nervous system) into a foreign country, on a repeated basis?
UPDATE: McCain may have been a Navy liaison to the Senate at the time, not a Senator himself. But he is still culpable for what he did, of course.
- What is said Senator doing by planting false evidence, i.e., the bottles of that illegal substance, on innocent foreigners?
- Since the Senator knows how ugly foreign jails can be--his POW status in the "Hanoi Hilton" being the centerpiece of his campaign story--, how can he justify, and even ENJOY, doing something that risks getting innocent people punished in a foreign jail for his own illegal substance abuse habit??
(As for "ENJOY", cf. again,
...But I wouldn't have been terribly bothered if they had not been so fortunate. The thought of their predicament kept me amused for the rest of the day. ...
)
And never mind "punished"; people are sometimes assaulted, maimed, and even killed in prison. Does he not know this??
- What is the Senator doing, either directly or through his followers, accusing people falsely of bad things (e.g., connecting 8-year-old Barry Obama to William Ayers), when
a. he has done bad things himself (see above), and
b. he has a history of other false accusations? (see above)
When so many McCainites are trying to portray McCain's opponent as "Barack Hussein Cocaine" etc., it all seems a little funny, when McCain himself has confessed to planting false evidence of a banned substance on people, and thinking it's a hoot. Very "funny" indeed.
Call it an old story, but if Americans don't know it yet, maybe it's a new story.
One wonders how anyone can believe anything John McCain says again, after his confession above. If smuggling and slander/defamation (by planting false evidence) of innocent travelers is "Country First", I wonder if McCain remembers what patriotism really is.
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