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John McCain's Vietnam jailer backs him
The Australian ^ | June 24, 2008

Posted on 06/23/2008 9:25:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: All; river rat

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After the Fall of Saigon...
...it got worse:

http://www.JourneyFromTheFall.com

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806248/posts

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41 posted on 06/25/2008 7:57:48 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: TheBattman

Oh man, that’s hilarious...a guy says that nobody got tortured in the Hilton and you think he’s credible enough for us to tell something about McCain’s inner thoughts by what he says.

Can you describe your brain, so we can help you find it?


42 posted on 06/25/2008 9:15:02 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (It's not conservative to accept an inept Commander-in-Chief in a time of war. Back Mac.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

bump for later


43 posted on 06/25/2008 9:44:12 PM PDT by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: maine-iac7
Regarding the treatment of POWs in North Vietnam, the following is from Over The Beach, The Air War in Vietnam by Zalin Grant, 1986.

“The Cuban (Yes, a Cuban guest torturer) took on the Baron (a USAF Major) as a special project. He intended to break him bad. His prestige as Comrade Big Brother was on the line. He tortured Baron and took him to a room we called the coal bin, on the other side of the camp. He tied him up the same way they did me (Lt. Chuck Rice USN) my first day and left him like that overnight. Another POW held in the next cell heard what happened.

Baron screamed all night, the POW said, until three in the morning. Then he stopped, didn’t make a further sound. Next morning, when the Cuban and the Vietnamese came, they were visibly stunned by what they found. Baron looked seventy years old. His hair had turned white overnight. He had snapped his wire and became a doddering old man . . .

He came back, his eyes blank and lie in the fetal position. We had to force feed him, but he fought and lost weight, down to about 90 pounds. Finally they took him out of our room and put him in solitary. We kept up with him for a while but eventually lost track. He died around Christmas 1970.”

44 posted on 06/26/2008 5:46:02 AM PDT by Jacquerie (Vote McCain - It's better to hold your nose than grab your ankles.)
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To: harald

Do you think LCDR John McCain USN was an air pirate who should have been killed the moment he landed in his parachute?


45 posted on 06/29/2008 3:30:35 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Honor the valor of Vietnam Veterans.)
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To: harald

I suspected that you do not have the courage to debate. Prove me wrong.


46 posted on 06/30/2008 2:38:43 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Honor the valor of Vietnam Veterans.)
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To: TheBattman
I am merely repeating what others have pointed out: Would a sane person want to hold a reunion with people who tortured him? Why did McCain refuse to press war crimes charges against his captors? McCain's attitude towards the families of POW and MIA was awful. If there is a good explanation I have not heard it.
47 posted on 06/30/2008 2:46:16 PM PDT by Jane Austen (Boycott the Bahamas!)
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