Retired Marine colonel angered by candidate's statements that he helped enemy while 2 were in Vietnamese prison camp.
Former Orange County Supervisor Edison Miller is lashing out at John McCain, saying the presidential candidate falsely fingered him as a turncoat who was "actively aiding the enemy" while the two were imprisoned during the Vietnam War.
"He lied about me," said the Irvine resident, who retired as a Marine Corps colonel shortly after the war. "The attacks on my character and integrity are totally without merit or justification. I did stand up and say the war was wrong. I would speak against the war, but I never spoke against my country. And I gave up no secrets."
In McCain's book, "Faith of My Fathers," the Republican presidential candidate writes about two "camp rats" who "had lost their faith completely."
"They not only stopped resisting but apparently crossed a line no other prisoner I knew had even approached," McCain wrote. "They were collaborators, actively aiding the enemy."
While McCain did not name the two in the book, Miller and Walter Eugene Wilber are identified as the POWs in question in a June 15 New York Times story on McCain's 1974 essay about POW traitors. Miller said the newspaper story brought McCain's claims to his attention.
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Yes this story was told back in 2000 and it's time for the GOP and the McCain camp to stop it from becoming headlines again. It was ok when the GOP wanted Bush not McCain so they let these guys tell their story. One could believe it as each man speaking said pretty much the same thing. McCain did give in a little and said he was in shock most of time but now this truth is coming back.
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