…because it’s time once again to defend John McCain a bit, from the usual gaggle of anti-American socialist dirtbags:

Critics have accused McCain of war crimes for bombing targets in Hanoi in the 1960s. Sunday, a widely read liberal blog accused McCain of “disloyalty” during his captivity in Vietnam for his coerced participation in propaganda films and interviews after he’d been tortured.

“A lot of people don’t know… that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity,” wrote Americablog’s John Aravosis. “Putting that bit of disloyalty aside, what exactly is McCain’s military experience that prepares him for being commander in chief?”

“Getting shot down, tortured, and then doing propaganda for the enemy is not command experience,” Aravosis wrote in the blog post, entitled “Honestly, besides being tortured, what did McCain do to excel in the military?”

McCain’s camp responded sharply to the Americablog posting Sunday night.

“The American people know that John McCain’s record of service and sacrifice is not a matter of debate. He has written about and discussed his service as a POW extensively—often in excruciating and painful detail,” said McCain spokesman Brian Rogers. “The American people will judge harshly anyone who demeans or attacks that service.”

McCain has written repeatedly of his service, including a long 1973 magazine article and in his memoir, Faith of My Fathers. A Navy aviator from a military family, he was shot down on his 23rd sortie over Vietnam on October 26, 1967. His mission was to bomb a power plant in the North Vietnamese capital. Already suffering from broken limbs, he was beaten by a crowd before being taken to a POW camp. After being tortured there, he participated in some Vietnamese propaganda efforts.

But he later defied his captors by refusing to meet with anti-war delegations from abroad, he wrote, and also refused the most valuable special treatment he was offered: Early release.

Those “antiwar delegations” — traitors to the last man Jack of them, if the word still has any meaning at all — are exactly the same sort of gutless, treasonous pus-nuts that are attacking McCain’s perfectly honorable service record now. As for Wesley Clark — well, to hell with that halfwit.

Y’know, it occurs to me that I ought to just deactivate the Loony Left category and fold its posts into the Culture of Treason. Truth of the matter is, more often than not they amount to the same damned thing. And just for spice, here’s another scurvy example of Democrat “patriotism” for you to chew on.

Update! Three months and a band-aid is enough to make Kerry a war hero to liberals — and waterboarding KSM is enough to send them rushing to his defense, despite his role in the 9/11 atrocity. They’re debilitatingly confused, but you shouldn’t be, about just who and what they are. AJ Strata sure ain’t: “Ugly Liberals.” I strongly disagree with AJ’s contention that his service record alone qualifies him for the presidency, but you won’t catch me attacking McMaverick for that record. And you damned sure won’t catch me standing by closed-mouthed when a bunch of shit-slinging, terrorist-coddling creampuffs like John Arachnidovosis do it, either.