And some fellow POW's were some of his biggest supporters in 2008. Don't get me wrong I don't like McCain's antics as a senator one bit I wish he would quit and spare the nation more damage with his rouge politics. But I'm not going to attack his service record either. One endorsement I saw on the list was a former POW whom I would trust with my life and in a sense did. It didn't change my mind about not voting for McCain I voted Independent. But it tells me the POW rumors are most likely what we called scuttlebutt. For example on one thread tonight some thought he had caused the USS Forestall Fire. Impossible. I want him out of office for his political record as a U.S. Senator.
George "Bud" Day and Orson Swindle, fellow POWs, told PolitiFact that POWs sometimes were forced to talk when they were tortured, but they tried to tell lies to mislead their captors.
"We were all tortured and we wrote confessions under the pressure of torture," said Swindle, who was a cellmate with McCain and is active in his campaign. "John McCain never collaborated with the enemy. He, like every one of us, submitted to severe torture. John McCain did nothing dishonorable. He was heroic."
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[On the original fliers slandering McCain:]
Day, a Medal of Honor winner who also is supporting McCain's campaign, said the flyer is "the most outrageous f------ lie I've ever heard."
Like the Bruce Jenner 'courage thing', admitting you voted Independent against the GOP (and for Obama), speaks volumes as to who you really are.