... to brag about encouraging former Senator McCain to cheat on his disabled first wife ...
1. While
LIEden was already a US Senator when John McCain III returned from Vietnam, when in 1976 McCain started having affairs, he was commanding a training squadron in Florida.
IF LIEden ever spoke to him about his marriage, the marriage was already toast.
2. This claim is really rich, coming from
LIEden, who was cheating with Jill months before his wife was killed in a traffic accident.
No, John McCain III did not caused the USS Forrestal fire.
His A-4, like all the A-4s and F-4s that were spotted for the strike, was positioned aft along the deck edge. His exhaust was going out to sea, not onto the fuel spilling on the deck.
That fuel was lit by the exhaust of the Zuni rocket that had caused the spill. It's time to drop this stupid, physically impossible, claim.
I despised John McCain III, but the truth is the truth. Instead, blame the USN and defense contractor company who had not fixed the
known problem with the Zuni rocket and the DC-desk-navigating senior officer(s) who overrode the Captain of the USS Forrestal and commanded the use of bombs that were known to be old, deteriorated, and unstable.