E Head's theory that McCain is vying for the middle ground to capture the 2008 Nomination is bolstered by this revelation from NEWSMAX. McCain may be disgusted with the Swiftboat Veterans allegations versus Kerry, but McCain wrote a piece in 1973 for U.S. News & World Report saying that the anti-war movement did a great deal of harm to the POWs still overseas.
In piece he wrote for the May 14, 1973, issue of U.S. News & World Report, the POW-turned-senator charged that testimony by Kerry and others before J. William Fulbright's Senate Foreign Relations Committee was "the most effective propaganda [my North Vietnamese captors] had to use against us."
The Reconcilliation
McCain biographer Paul Alexander chronicled the Arizona Republican's anger toward Kerry during their early careers in the Senate together.
"For many years McCain held Kerry's actions against him because, while McCain was a POW in the Hanoi Hilton, Kerry was organizing veterans back home in the U.S. to protest the war."
In his 2002 book, "Man of the People: The Life of John McCain," Alexander says that the two Vietnam vets finally reconciled in the early 1990s after having "a long - and at times emotional - conversation about Vietnam" during a mutual trip to Kuwait.
The swiftboat veterans didn't get that touchy feely moment flying to Kuwait. Maybe McCain could sponsor a group hug between Kerry and John O'Neill.
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