Are we talking net numbers? You have to discount his total by the ones that died from the fire he started on the carrier.
#69 | Posted by 726
OKAY since there was no fire started BY MCCAIN -
i will discount ZERO of the prisoners McCain saved :
Neither noticed the F-4 Phantom also revving up. An electrical surge from the engine combustion is believed to have triggered one of its wing's Zuni missiles. It accidentally fired, blasting across the deck and slamming into the fuel tank of McCain's A-4. The missile didn't detonate, but the impact spilled 200 gallons of highly flammable aviation fuel and knocked two of McCain's bombs to the deck. The fuel caught fire and McCain's plane was engulfed in smoke.
"I opened my canopy, raced onto the nose, crawled out onto the refueling probe, and jumped ten feet into the fire," McCain wrote in his 1999 book Faith of My Fathers. "I rolled through a wall of flames as my flight suit caught fire."
Slapping out the fire on his flight suit, McCain rushed to assist another A-4 pilot who also was on fire. He followed Chief Petty Officer Gerald Farrier, who wielded a fire-extinguisher, and other men carrying a hose.
by Dan Nowicki and Bill Muller - Mar. 1, 2007 10:52 AM
The Arizona Republic
In fact I think I have to prbably add a few to the total of men saved by McCain.
BUt McCain was, really, a joke for a pres candidate. don't let my defene of him change my assertion that he was a bad candidate.