Letters to the Editor
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Don't swift boat McCain
I don't have any particular love for McCain (I actually don't have any love for him at all), but the "wet start" theory is pure BS and shouldn't be brought up at all. If you look at video of the fire, McCain's plane was positioned on the edge of the flight deck with nose pointing inward. In other words, his engine was pointing out to sea. Even if he had wet-started, the flame would have just gone out towards the water, nowhere near the plane that shot off the rocket.
And to the original "wet start" poster here, your account comes from an anti-semitic website that dislikes McCain for his support of the "Jewish Mafia", whatever the hell that means. I wonder if you knew that or not, but either way, check your sources.
I find it ironic that in response to an article criticizing McCain for hypocrisy on torture, a bunch of people who probably howled in protest over the swift-boating of John Kerry (and rightfully so) are lamenting that the media won't do the same to McCain.