McCain - unfit to lead? Options

[HammaTime]

All I can say is, Wow.

I just finished reading a piece that will be published in the October 16 issue of Rolling Stone Magazine on the life of John McCain. It quickly becomes painfully obvious that an awful lot of his former friends, associates and fellow POW's really detest the man.

It is a brutal, brutal take on the man and his legend:

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/coverstor...eal_john_mccain

[Robert]

I don't know what to think of the 60 minute piece. Maybe it's completely accurate but it bothers me 60 minutes failed to offer zero collaboration for the story. The whole story is built on what 1 person says, who just happens to be trying to sell a book about it. Then there is the questionable theatrics involved to hid his identity. We used a fake beard to hide his identify, hide it from who? I don't know.
Then they go on to say this is the 37 year old former Army Major who lead the delta team. I'm going to take a wild guess an assume the government knows who the 37 year old Major is who was the leader for this delta team.

I use to be a big fan of 60 minutes even though I didn't agree with some of their investigative reporting.
In my opinion, 60 minutes went down hill a few years ago after Ed Bradley and Mike Wallace left.
You have to admit 60 minutes lost a lot of credibility when they ran the Rather story about Bush's military service using completely bogus documents. Documents which were even being questioned prior to them running the story.
So I'm going to hold off on my opinion until there is more to the story than 1 unnamed guy who just happen to be trying to sell a book.
Right now it feels more like sensationalism then actual investigative reporting.
I'm not sayig the the story isn't accurate, maybe it is but I want more information that what's been supplied so far.

I'm also a little surprise any discussion about special Ops an Osama would fail to mention Operation Anaconda.


Who knows, when it comes to the hunt for Osama, we may end up replying on our secret weapon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYmEA4O6a10