Soviet officer who 'shot down McCain over Vietnam' speaks out

RIA Novosti ^ | 17/ 11/ 2008 | unknown

[winoneforthegipper]

"We were preparing to leave when the sirens sounded again," he said. "Two American F-4 Phantoms flew in. We had two missiles out of six left. The Vietnamese fired first. Their rocket missed, it fell into the jungle. One plane went round the hill, the other came over the bridge. We fired at this one."

[Doohickey]

A-4 Skyhawk. Intruder was the A-6.

[cardinal4]

John was an A-4 driver, not a Phantom..

[cardinal4]

Jeez..Freepers are quick! Every post was correcting the aircraft type. As an aside, the Israelis flew the Skyhawk, too. In fact I think it was an A-4 that strafed the Liberty..

[Obadiah]

He spent five and a half years in a POW camp, and claims that he was tortured.

Bunk.

[printhead]

And here I thought the Russians were only advisors.

[shibumi]

"Lying Commies."

Redundant.

[Milly]

“My wife was there and saw the whole thing”
Was she standing with John Kerry watching this airshow?

[WayneS]

Thanks.

Also, please see post #17.

[y6162]

The only problem is that McCain flew a Sky Hawk, not an F4.

[WayneS]

She was sitting on an anti-aircraft gun, smoking hashish with Jane Fonda

[Doohickey]

You shouldn’t need to resort to personal attacks on yourself. :)

[winoneforthegipper]

True enough, I was going for the a-4 to f-4 thought!

[Travis T. OJustice]

I know, just yanking your chain a little.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yep. total BS.

[WayneS]

Yes, I know.

This “as hominem” stuff is becoming quite disgusting, isn’t it?

;^)

[pfflier]

The story claims F-4s were shot down. McCain’s plane was an A-4, a much smaller aircraft and no way mistaken for and F-4.

[Candor7]

Mccain meeting with Obama today in Chicago.

This is pre press release spin to blunt McCain's statements about the meeting. We must revile the press continually.

What a bunch of unAmerican morons.

No officer would mistake the F15 and A-4. And its not the kind of mistake that would occur in translation.

This is a propagandists mistake. Fiction is often harder to write than fact. In a lie you have to create the world out of whole cloth. Few leftists news rags are up to it.

[pfflier]

My father said that we regularly overheard Russian technicians in Vietnam manning their missile sites

And East Germans , Czecs, Romanians and Poles with a little Cuban thrown into the mix.

[tumblindice]

Da! Lt. Kerry had navigated his boat to Hanoi, with passengers: the great film actress Jane Fonda, eminent American politician Ramsey Clark and prize-winning journalist Peter Arnett.
It is seared into my memory as if it happened yesterday! I fired the SAM missiles from my shoulder—one after another—and my Amerikan comrades all clapped and cheered as the planes fell from the sky....
Finally in a magnificent display of proletarian solidarity, Lt. Kerry admitted to being a pawn and lackey of imperialist warlords and swallowed his medals. We then posed for photos and had tea and cakes.