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Also from what I have read, when he was a POW, after the NV found out his father was an Admiral, he received preferential treatment because the NV thought it would help sway the talks with the US government.

That's just ridiculous!

From Wikipedia:

in 1967, he was shot down over Vietnam, and was held as a prisoner of war in Hanoi for five-and-a-half years, mostly in the infamous Hanoi Hilton. When the North Vietnamese discovered he was the son and grandson of admirals, he was offered a chance to go home, but he refused to break the military code that POWs be released in the order that they are captured. He was finally released from captivity in 1973, having survived the injuries he received when he was shot down, the beatings from an angry crowd and his captors, a year of torture, and two years of solitary confinement. (...) Once released, his POW injuries prevented him from receiving a sea command, so in 1977, he became a Naval liaison to the Senate.

Public photo of President Richard M. Nixon greeting released US officer and POW and future US Senator John McCain

THIS is preferential treatment?????

When the North Vietnamese discovered he was the son and grandson of admirals, he was offered a chance to go home, but he refused to break the military code that POWs be released in the order that they are captured.

You don't consider this "preferential" treatment huh? He also received hospital care after they found out they might benefit politically. Again, you don't see this as preferential? How many other POW's were refused treatment because they were not what the NV considered likely to help them in their efforts with the US government. If they offered this, I think it is safe to assume they did not put him thru some of the other atrocities suffered by our POW's. There are certainly worse horror stories that came out the POW camps than what McCain went thru and they didn't abandon their brothers because of political ambitions. Sure makes me think perhaps he had it better than most during his stay at the "Hilton".

Explain to me, how and why he turned on his fellow Vets trying to expose Kerry as the blowhard he is? Not what I consider honorable behavior from someone who used their Nam experience to vault them into political life.

This of course is my opinion. I always try to err on the side of men who hold their honor to be more important than votes. I'm just funny that way. I have always found it odd for a man to be more involved with his ambitions than with the brotherhood practiced by those who shared this terrible ordeal.