Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain

State Rep. Ric Killian says veterans will deliver North Carolina to John McCain.

The first-term Charlotte Republican, who serves as McCain's state veterans' coordinator, told Dome that North Carolina's military bases and large veterans population will help tilt the state red in the presidential race.

"Senator McCain was the only candidate in the spring of 2007 who has the experience and the judgement to be commander-in-chief, and he's the only candidate now," he said.

He said Iraq will be the "paramount issue" in the fall election, and he thinks veterans will not want to repeat what he argues are the mistakes of the Vietnam war.

"We as a nation chose to leave," he said. "Our military served very well but as a nation we lacked the will to see it through. That's some of the parallel that we see here in 2008. We have to stand firm in this global war on terrorism."

Killian, a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve, is one of only two reservists in the legislature. Coincidentally, the other, Rep. Grier Martin, is cochairman of Barack Obama's state veterans group.

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Re: Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain: Not this veteran

Submitted by fayvet on June 11, 2008 - 7:41am.

Thomas,

Respectful sir, wake up! Please watch this video of your guy on Youtube:

We are clearly in trouble if he is elected. Are you a vet?

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Re: Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain

Submitted by fayvet on June 11, 2008 - 7:33am.

When Politicians like Bush and McCain speak about the "Global War on Terror" What they really are saying is that it would be a "Terror" if we no longer funded big defense Contractors like KBR/Haliburton/DynCorp and no longer had a dependence on foreign OIL and Oh yeah!No longer had an excuse to strip away our civil liberties for the "sake of "Homeland Security" Follow their campaign money and personal wealth and see where it leads you. If we can put a spacecraft on Mars, why can't we find Osama Bin Laden and put an end to this charade. Mark my words, if and when Bin Laden is captured or killed, the fear mongers will still keep hyping the "Global War on Terror"!

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Delusional

Submitted by James_Protzman on June 10, 2008 - 4:54pm.

Maybe the N&O could commission a survey of veterans and active duty personnel. I'll bet fewer than half are on the "all war all the time" John McCain Express.

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Re: Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain

Submitted by captsfufp on June 10, 2008 - 3:30pm.

McCain's "veteran" stances are almost the only issues keeping me from taking a subjective look at him!!!

I don't know any of my FELLOW vets of the 21st century wars that support Sen. McCain's policy of more wars and less benefits. If he could have an epiphany on these issues, he would win all 50 states...

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Re: Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain

Submitted by fayvet on June 10, 2008 - 12:57pm.

How ignorant does Mr.Killian think we are? Just because we are vets doesn't mean we blindly vote for a Pro-military contender without considering a candidate's position on all issues. McCain is hell bent on keeping our young men and women in Iraq because he feels like he was short changed a victory over his captures in Vietnam (Victory at all cost). While I sympathize with his experience and can somewhat relate to him, I cannot allow his bitterness toward the enemy to cloud his judgement about the need to go to war only when absolutely necessary and only with adequate resources to swiftly accomplish the mission, then get out (Victory is not always won on the battlefiled) it should start and end at the table. The cost of one life is no price to pay for a war which should not have been (according to Bush insiders). I have voted republican all of my adult life (not this year). When McCain jokingly sang Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb-Bomb Iran, that told me, he has truly lost touch with the true cost of war. Try jokingly singing that song to Mrs Young Airman who just lost her son to a snipers round in Tehran. To this date, what have we really accomplished in Iraq or the whole region for that matter. As in our case,(USA) democracy has to start within, because it is a cause for the people, so it must be demanded by the people. It will never be achieved through imposition. No, we all know the real reason my buddies died in Afganistan and Iraq-that is why I will never vote for a person like McCain Big on War, Small on Diplomacy and everything else. It is shameful how the Bush Administartion has wasted so many life for the sake of his on(failed)legacy. Don't be fooled, McCain hears the final pages being turned in the book of his life and doesn't like the way it turns out,so he will try to motivate us to vote one issue that as veterans we can rally around. I don't think so! SHAME, SHAME, SHAME. What does Colin Powell know that J. MCCain doesn't....the true cost of War!

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Re: Killian: Vets will deliver N.C. to McCain

Submitted by chazevans on June 10, 2008 - 8:43am.

Not on my watch...Obama/Hagel 2008

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