Holy Cow! I figured the msm would get around to this eventually, but Maureen Dowd? This is a good day...

Glad she wrote it, but noted that as she is the Queen of Pithy, this column actually seemed a bit tame and thin on the snark.

However, I got the sense she is so outraged at his using his POW as currency of choice that she was careful to show respect for those who served and suffered, yet never attempt to use it as a cover to hide under when confronted with their ineptness in dealing with current issues.

Of course, I doubt she could ever do better than her last column on McCain, Clinton and Jackson versus Obama. Great.

Hopefully her POW column will (finally?) bring this topic into the main media sphere and maybe, just maybe, another MSM reporter will have the cohones she does and run with it too.

As a victim/veteran of the Nixon-Kissinger Fig Leaf Contingent (Vietnam 1970-1972) I have never found Mad Dog John McBomb's views about war at all worth considering. Basically, his entire foreign policy boils down to the old Third Reich slogan: "Wherever the [American] soldier plants his boot, there he must remain." He simply loves war and doesn't give a shit where or when or against whom or why.

As for Maureen Dowd, I think she has certainly taken her own sweet years getting around to leting McBomb have it for trying to extort political sympathy for republicans out of his POW experience. Millions of us veterans served and suffered in Vietnam without ever once wishing to visit that awful disaster on yet more countries who had never attacked or threatened America. McCain has never learned a thing of value about needless imperial war because he simply has no intention to learn. He considers bloody American belligerence a rollicking romantic adventure with domestic political aggrandizement for him and his party just the frosting on the cake.

Anyway, last year I finally had enough of Panama-John and the Geriatric Old Poops nakedly hiding behind the Sacred Symbol Soldier while trashing those of vets like John Kerry who saw a lot more of Vietnam and its people than McBomb did sitting in a jail cell. So, I wrote:

"Up Yours, John McCain"

Well, "Up Yours!" Mad Dog John McCain,
And what's that stench I smell?
Why, could it be an albatross
That you wear like a bell:
A dead, decaying necklace that
Suits leper losers well?

I do hope that you keep it up
Attacking us who learned
In Southeast Asia lessons that
You've only ever spurned
An asinine amnesiac,
Your coming loss you've earned

That fetid, feathered bird you wear
So proudly on your chest
Sure ought to help you win two states
And that's about the best
That fools like you could hope to win
While losing all the rest

Just like a bomber pilot you
Just shit on those below
And never see the ground beneath
Where people you don't know
Look up and curse the vapor trail
From hot air that you blow

And do team up with Holy Joe
The Judas Lie-berman
Who trashes "his own party" for
The Faux News Murdoch clan
And Zionist Likudniks who
Promote the fascist plan

Each day we've lost two more GIs
Through years that number four
Now with your "surge" you've doubled that
With killed and maimed galore
Among Iraqis -- Afghans, too --
And still you cry for more!

You have no honor left to lose
You sold that long ago
For dreams of fighting 'Nam again
And just as badly, so
Your plans for poor Iraq amount
To nothing we don't know

You've nothing new to add of worth,
Just more of what we've had:
A litany of lies and death
And "leadership" so bad
That more of what you offer could
But make more widows sad

Please go away and save us all
The boredom of your screeds
We've seen and heard enough from George
And all his lousy deeds
We really do not care for you
And your pathetic needs

So "Up Yours!" Mad Dog John McCain,
And you can kiss my butt
Your stupid brain has slipped some gears
And left you in a rut
Espousing war that no one wants --
Except the senile nut

Michael Murry, "The Misfortune Teller," Copyright 2007