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Obama has been accused of being friends with a terrorist, but just who is this terrorist? And just who is McCain's friend?

Well how many of you remember Vietnam? How many of you know someone who protested the war or someone who fled to Canada or some other country to avoid the draft? If you know someone who was active against the Vietnam War, then you too may be friends with a terrorist.

The terrorist that Obama is accused of being friends with was just one of the many Americans who were sickened by the senseless deaths of their friends and relatives drafted into the Vietnam War. Add to this the reports of murder, torture, and general abuse of Vietnamese civilians by some American Soldiers, and it is easy to understand how Ayers along with millions of other Americans joined in the protests against the government.

At one protest by a group of college students, National Guardsmen fired tear gas into the crowd. When this failed to break up the protest, the Guardsmen fired live rounds on the students, killing four of them and wounding ten others. This frightened some protestors and enraged others. William Ayers was just one of the enraged that decided to fight back in a very troubling time for the youth of this country.

That was almost 40 years ago and this so called terrorist that Obama is accused of being associated with is now a professor of education at the University of Illinois in Chicago.  Not to mention that Obama was just a small child when all of this was happening, and had not yet met the man.

Now in the interest of fairness it is important to note that while Obama may have known Ayers, a terrorist against the Vietnam War, McCain has been and still is friends with a man who is accused by some of war crimes related to that very same war.

McCain's good friend Henry Kissinger is the same man who is reported to have prevented the ceasefire in Vietnam in order to help Nixon get elected. The cost in lives to American soldiers was a small price to pay to help get Nixon elected according to "The Trial of Henry Kissinger", a book by Christopher Hitchens. In the book, later made into a documentary film by Eugene Jarecki and Alex Gibney, Kissinger is said to have "in the process of increasing his own power, be personally responsible for prolonging the Vietnam War".  It is reported that Kissinger stalled the ceasefire meeting that was to take place just days before the election in which Nixon was elected.

Christopher Hitchens also claims that Henry Kissinger directed the first phase of the holocaust in Cambodia during the war, resulting in the murder of an estimated 600,000 peasants.

Hitchens is neither the first nor only person to accuse Kissinger of war crimes. As of May 2002, he is wanted for questioning in Chile (related to the Pinochet coup) and Spain. (Didn't McCain say he would not sit down for talks with the leader of Spain? Maybe he is protecting his friend.)

The book also sites that in November 2002 Henry Kissinger was appointed as the chairman of the independent panel investigating the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on America. His appointment led to widespread criticism, generally taken from the position that "Kissinger has never been supportive of the public's right to know", and also from the position that Kissinger is viewed by some as a war criminal in his own right.

So who has the most questionable friend?