Posted on 06/23/2008 9:25:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
REPUBLICAN US presidential candidate John McCain has got some unexpected support from his former Vietnam War jailer, who said he would vote for the former navy pilot if he could.
Speaking to the BBC from Haiphong, Tran Trong Duyet also insisted that Senator McCain's assertions that he was tortured during his time at the prison were lies, and that no one held there was ever subjected to torture.
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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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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?
bump for later
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, didnt 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.
Do you think LCDR John McCain USN was an air pirate who should have been killed the moment he landed in his parachute?
I suspected that you do not have the courage to debate. Prove me wrong.
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