I absolutely feel this is POTW worthy. I literally teared up watching some of this. Mike, what do you think?

I agree Larry and thanks much Joj!

We have a new post of the week, folk!

There were mostly awesome segments in there for sure.

So sad that near the end, they featured the Rs and Ds uniting  for one of the few things they've united on in recent  years........funding the  US war with Russia. One of the worst humanitarian disasters since WW-2 that has killed half a million and decimated Ukraine with no end in sight and nothing positive to show for it.

America’s Founding Era, A Time of Political Unity

https://www.americanacorner.com/blog/political-unity

The brief, shining moment of national unity after 9/11

Remembering a time when ‘we all did our part’

https://rollcall.com/2021/09/08/the-brief-shining-moment-of-national-unity-after-9-11/

I SHUT IT OFF WITHIN 3 SECONDS OF THAT LYING MCCAIN. I NEVER LIKED HIM & ALMOST CELEBRATED HIS DEATH.  HE WAS A COWARD & TOOK THE EASY WAY OUT... IMO

Truth be told, Jean one of the reasons that I voted for Obama was that I was NEVER McCain, who's strong position was "we will stay in Iraq until the job was done!" and Obama represented the opposite.

Whoever created this video must approve of the US military interventions.

I totally respected John McCain as a very honorable man in many  personal realms but he deplored and disrespected people on the other side of his powerful armies and killing machines which he thought gave him/the U.S. impunity to impose arrogant, US military objectives any place in the world that our country determined could serve U.S. interests. 

With very little thought about the immense suffering and cost to everybody and almost never using objective considerations that dialed in what the other side's agenda and strengths might be. 

Just like the false war propaganda convinced everybody that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction to gain support for the invasion, which McCain continued to support.......forever because of his fixed, 1 sided mentality,  the Ukraine war propaganda has generated similar support for a U.S. war with Russia.

Much of the world doesn't see it this way and history, in the absence of the war propaganda will not be kind to the U.S. in evaluating our key role. 

16 Years Later, How the Press That Sold the Iraq War Got Away With It

In an excerpt from his new book Hate Inc., Matt Taibbi looks back at how the media built new lies to cover their early ones

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/iraq-war-media-fail-matt-taibbi-812230/

Another US failure that has little beyond blood in the sand to show

https://www.livemint.com/opinion/online-views/another-us-failure-that-has-little-beyond-blood-in-the-sand-to-show-11629909406664.html

Funny how the left greatly despised John McCain, until he became Trump's enemy.

Then, all of a sudden John McCain became a great war hero overnight for the left.

"The enemy of my enemy is my Friend"

We Won’t Miss John McCain

John McCain was a racist war criminal. We won’t miss him. 

https://www.leftvoice.org/we-won-t-miss-john-mccain/

"While McCain is lauded for taking the microphone away from an Islamophobic woman who accused Obama of being a Muslim, it is less well remembered that he supported the rescinding of Martin Luther King Day. His racist history is detailed in Gook: John McCain’s Racism and Why It Matters by Irwin A. Tang, who says, “The combination of racism and warmongering are perfectly encapsulated in ‘gook,’ a racist term formed during numerous U.S. wars… John McCain used this anti-Asian slur freely with the media until he was forced to stop for fear of sabotaging his own presidential ambitions.”

For all this and much more, we won’t miss John McCain."

By whitewashing McCain’s bloody past as a warmonger, she has wasted the opportunity to raise her voice against imperialism. It means ignoring the hundreds of thousands of people who have died as a direct result of McCain’s actions in the military and votes in Congress. While McCain may have espoused a more “politically correct” vision of right-wing politics than Donald Trump’s, his policies still meant death and misery for American workers and people of color who were sent on unjust military campaigns

We can’t be afraid to say it. John McCain was a racist war criminal who was responsible for the death of thousands around the world– in his role in the Vietnam war, as well as in his role in Congress. We don’t mourn him and we won’t miss him.

McCain Criticized for Slur / He says he'll keep using term for ex-captors in Vietnam

https://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/McCain-Criticized-for-Slur-He-says-he-ll-keep-3304741.php

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Now I remember more of why I was NEVER John McCain in 2008.