Both are decorated navy veterans of the Vietnam War, but Kerry later protested against it as a leader of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, while McCain spent six years as a Hanoi prisoner.
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He played a key role in the passage of the War Powers Act, which limited presidential power, and was a strong opponent of the Vietnam War and the 1970 bombing of Cambodia.
His recollection of his years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam was poignant and heartfelt, as was his explanation of how he was "never the same again" because he stopped being his own man and became his country's man.
Current U.S. spending of 3.8% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on defense programs is astonishingly lower than the 38% spent at the close of WWII, the 11.7% spent during the Korean War, the 9.8% spent at the height of the Vietnam War, or the average of 5.2% spent during the last decade of the Cold War.
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McCain, a prisoner of war during Vietnam, later released a written statement, taking issue with the spending habits of Republican lawmakers.
The Review soon became sharply critical of the war in Vietnam, just as from the outset it has been critical of the war in Iraq.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Korean War and the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War.
McCain, who spent five years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam after his Navy plane was shot down, hinted that Bush might be avoiding the specter of putting more American lives at risk.
Traffic is so thick in front of the Rex Hotel, a garish relic of Vietnam War fame, that thousands of motorcycles simply inch along.
Then came the failures of the Vietnam war and the lies of Watergate and Iran-Contra.
The end of the Vietnam war, the industrialisation of South-East Asia and then, in the early 1990s, the closing of the naval shipyard all contributed to the demise of Philadelphia's labour-intensive manufacturing.
Since the end of the Vietnam War, the concept of human rights has been systematically co-opted by groups less interested in actual human rights than in the promotion of leftist politics in the U.S. and abroad.
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Obama congratulated his rival John McCain and praised McCain's service to the country as a politician and Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam.
As someone who was tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, McCain said that the U.S. would lose far more from torturing prisoners than it would gain, he said.
In the Senate, Kerry has taken the lead on several investigations, including probes of banking scandals and an examination on whether there were any Americans being held as prisoners of war in Vietnam.
McCain's "Straight Talk" theme, his record as a Navy pilot and prisoner of war in Vietnam and dogged campaigning led to a win in the New Hampshire primary that stunned the Bush camp.
But Cox didn't have to stray too far from reality, since, in the primary of that election, John McCain found himself the victim of a whisper campaign that suggested he was brainwashed while held as a prisoner of war during Vietnam.
In search of traction for his flagging campaign, McCain has delivered a series of speeches this month intended to showcase his serious credentials -- a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who made himself a military and defense expert over 25 years in Congress.
Time and again, support for terrorism appears to increase when legitimate political activism is suppressed - from the French anarchists who began bombing campaigns after the defeat of the Paris Commune, to the Algerian National Liberation Front struggling to end French colonialism, to the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a state of war" after state repression of student campaigns against the Vietnam War.
Cheney noted that what he called these "limitations" on executive power were put in place during the denouement of the Vietnam War and the early phases of the Watergate scandal.
The escalation of the Vietnam War and the utter failure of the Great Society to ameliorate poverty, far less deliver on its utopian promise of spiritual fulfillment, ended the third wave of liberalism.
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Mr Carter has a good feel for the arc America traced from the buoyant post-war optimism of the Apollo programme across the bridge of the Vietnam war to the pessimism surrounding Nixon's fall from power.
John McCain is an excellent legislator and government corruption watchdog, but he's oddly pro-war for someone who witnessed first-hand the worst of the Vietnam war.
To Richard Eubank, who also served at the height of the Vietnam War, I want to wish you the best of luck as you take the helm of this great organization at a critically important time.
In real terms Washington has been spending more on the military than during the Cold War, Korean War, or Vietnam War, all out of proportion to the current threat environment.
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During the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Kim proclaimed his liberal views on the reunification of North and South Korea.
He was, by turns, part of an air rescue squad during the Vietnam War, founder of what became the nation's largest custom-prosthetic-device company, a ski bum, a bureaucrat in the Carter Administration and a stockbroker for Prudential-Bache Securities.
China was looking for ways to bring Vietnam to heel, once its friend but since the end of the Vietnam war in 1975 increasingly independent-minded.
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