Politics- Does being a POW prepare you to run a country?

[beatrixherald]

So,  I am not a big supporter of Obama or McCain.  I liked Hillary, but I will probably vote Green party in November.  That being said.  Why do people think that McCain is a good Choice because he was in a POW camp and was a vietnam Vet?   I know LOTS of vietnam vets who are WAY TOO Messed up because of there service to run a household, nevermind a

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Re: I think the actual question is...

[cathgrace]

I am the first American citizen in my family, as they are all from South Africa, I try not to have a public opinion on Mandela, but his canonization as a saint is based on an absolute rewrite of his history. Mandela, his wife, and the ANC were criminals who created a violent resistance culture to apartheid. I am not saying that apartheid was a good thing, but during Mandela's trial, 90 pages of documents in his own handwriting came to light. Mandela addressed what he called "sellouts" in these documents. (Sellouts being anyone black who wasn’t actively resisting apartheid) He advocated "cutting their noses off." In Angola, the breasts were cut off living white women and other whites were sawed in half at a timbermill. Winnie Mandela once said that they would liberate South Africa with boxes of matches. They weren’t kidding…….. More than 400 black South Africans were murdered by placing tires (necklacing) around the necks of black policemen, civil workers, etc; they then poured petrol on them, and set them alight. People were stoned, stabbed and burned alive. I’m sorry but I can’t compare the experiences of Mandela to McCain, again the reasons for being imprisoned are the difference between a criminal and a soldier doing as he was ordered.