McCain Fires Back At White House; Invokes His Own POW History
Senator John McCain fired back at Sean Spicer and the White House on Wednesday and invoked his own history as a prisoner of war. McCain was responding to criticism from the White House of his assessment of the botched Yemeni raid as a “failure.”
McCain told NBC news:
“Many years ago, when I was imprisoned in North Vietnam, there was an attempt to rescue the POWs. Unfortunately, the prison had been evacuated, but the brave men who took— risked their lives in an effort to rescue us prisoners of war were genuine American heroes.
Because the mission failed did not in any way diminish their courage and willingness to help their fellow Americans who were help captive. Mr. Spicer should know that story.”
Sen McCain responds to WH Spox @seanspicer suggesting he should apologize for not calling Yemen raid a success w/ a bit of a history lesson: pic.twitter.com/9zvjGGNkoT
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorp) February 8, 2017
McCain’s comments were in response to Sean Spicer’s statements Wednesday morning saying, “The life of chief Ryan Owens was done in service to his country and we owe him and his family a great debt for the information we received during that raid. Any suggestion otherwise is a disservice to his courageous life and the actions he took. Full stop.”
Spicer also said, “I think anybody who undermines the success of that [raid] owes an apology and [does] a disservice to the life of Chief Owens,” Spicer said.
