Hey, if he can't use it, who can?

Seems that John McCain let his real feelings about his captors in North Vietnam out recently: "I hate the gooks", McCain said yesterday in response to a question from reporters aboard his campaign bus. "I will hate them as long as I live."
Given what they did to him, is that response really a surprise to anyone?

Rico says 'gooks' is not only politically incorrect, it's linguistically incorrect. The phrase 'gook' is derived from the Korean word 'guk' (which they call themselves), and more properly dates from the Korean War. The fact that lazy GIs didn't bother to come up with more topically derisive and linguistically appropriate phrasing for our Vietnamese allies and enemies isn't McCain's fault...

(Well, actually, they did, but who besides Rico and a few other vets remembers 'dink'?)