McCain campaign attempts to challenge claims from "Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain"
Posted by DarthDilbert at 1/16/2008 02:05:00 PM
Supporters of Republican John McCain on Tuesday assailed a mailer sent to state newspaper editors claiming he sold out fellow POWs to get better treatment while held prisoner in Vietnam. "Nothing could be further from the truth. I know because I was there," Orson Swindle, a retired Marine lieutenant colonel and former prisoner of war, said in a statement about the mailing from Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain. The group's organizer, Jerry Kiley, who said he also is a Vietnam veteran, said in a telephone phone interview that he has been trying for years to spread what he said is the truth about McCain's record. "John McCain has created this myth that he is a hero and he is not," Kiley said from his home in Garnerville, N.Y.
Vietnam Veterans Against John McCain
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