If course, which explains why he got back and couldn't even raise his arm over his head.
and negates all the other testimonies from the other officers that were held prisoner with him - and also were subject to torture.
So who do we believe = this guard or one of our most decorated and admired military men, the man that shared a cell and torture with McCain: Col. Day, the most decorated service man since Gen. Douglas MacArthur, with more than 70 medals?
excerpts of what Col. Day says:
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/05/08/mccains-former-hanoi-cell-mate-describes-character-in-deplorable-conditions/
"Day said the first time he saw McCain, he believed the future senator was close to death and that the only reason for the chance encounter was part of a Vietnamese ploy to break the morale of U.S. servicemen already in captivity.
I took one look at him, and my brain instantly said, They dropped this guy off on me to claim that we let him die, Day said. He was just emaciated. Very, very skinny, in this full body cast. Just filthy.
The U.S. soldiers were held sometimes five to a cell, barely big enough for two.
He had this gimpy knee where hed busted his knee, this arm had been fractured in a couple places, hed been bayoneted in the leg, this arm was out at the shoulder and, in fact, during that time it was out at the shoulder so long it wore a hole in this bone, Day said.
During captivity, they were tortured mercilessly, Day said, describing one tactic that McCain has also recalled.
They roped me under the arms, tied my hands behind my back, ran another rope to that, got me up on a chair, threw that rope up over a rafter and jerked the chair out from under me and your own weight just tears your body apart, he said.
Days broken arm was re-broken during torture so he would never fly again. McCain played physical therapist.
John said, Well well gather up some bamboo, and he was in a bandage on his leg at that time. So I got some strips of bamboo, smuggled them into the room, John put his foot in my arm pit and pulled on my wrist till we could get the bone forced back down it wasnt exactly perfect but it worked out he got it back to where it was functional, Day said.
...John would help me. John would pull my fingers out straight. They would just instantly recurl. And finally, one morning, I had just the slightest bit of movement in this hand finger and we both cried, Day said.
McCain, whose military record was released to the Associated Press on Wednesday, received 17 commendations over his career from 1951-81. They included the Silver Star for his conduct in captivity. He also received the Legion of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross and a Bronze Star.
Day said by any humane standard, McCain would have been a good candidate for early release from the camp, but that wasnt in his playbook.
It also wasnt in his playbook to die. In fact he quickly became a leader.
Can you picture obamiation in those circumstances?