[pipecorp]

Just after his release in May 1973, he detailed his experience as a P.O.W. in a lengthy account in U.S. News & World Report.


He described the day Hanoi Hilton guards beat him "from pillar to post, kicking and laughing and scratching. After a few hours of that, ropes were put on me and I sat that night bound with ropes."
"For the next four days, I was beaten every two to three hours by different guards . . . Finally, I reached the lowest point of my 5 1/2 years in North Vietnam. I was at the point of suicide, because I saw that I was reaching the end of my rope."

McCain was taken to an interrogation room and ordered to sign a document confessing to war crimes. "I signed it," he recalled. "It was in their language, and spoke about black crimes, and other generalities."

"I had learned what we all learned over there," McCain said. "Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."


Funny, John Mccain believes torture is okay for our troops, but not for islamofascists. Even though it broke him, even though they torture our troops and civilians. He is no longer a war hero, he's merely a turncoat aiding and abetting our enemy by tying our country's hands in the war on terror.

[onyx]

McCain doesn't believe in torture at all, but he knows better than all others, that torture is employed and that his legislation will not keep one American from being tortured. It is wishful, stupid and IMO, dangerous thinking.

[demkicker]

The bastards McCain, Graham & Warner will be very sorry for this.

[Shadow Deamon]

"He is no longer a war hero, he's merely a turncoat aiding and abetting our enemy by tying our country's hands in the war on terror."

Right your are... Benedict Arnold was a war hero just prior to becoming a traitor. Just because someone is heroic once in there life doesn't give them a lifelong pass for their subsequent actions.