OK, so I'll confess right at the start that I'm a pinko commie faggot, but all this McCain the war hero, tortured in prison having been shot down while serving his country stuff is really getting on my tits.

McCain was over 8,000 miles from US soil, flying an A-4E Skyhawk ground attack aircraft. His job was to drop bombs on the heads of a peasant army, killing who knows how many civilians as a by-product, in a country far away that didn't attack the US and indeed couldn't have attacked the US even if it had tried. He volunteered for this job, and was paid to do so by US Government.

I don't doubt that he was treated very badly when he was shot down or that he endured a lot of pain and suffering as a result. But enduring pain and suffering isn't enough to to earn you hero status.

Or did someone redefine the word hero when I wasn't looking?