I know I have become hardened and cynical now, because I am sure that over at DU, there are posts saying “you can see he is hardly limping” and “look how healthy he looks” and crap like that. Seeing that footage must be such an emotional experience for Senator McCain and his family.
my thought exactly when i saw the tape from the yahoo link.
i was wondering (have to be cynical of msm and libs now) why they came forward?
one of my guesses was that they would say he was “hardly limping” and when he was using crutches when he returned to the us, it was for show.
my answer to that is, the vietcong didn’t give them crutches and also being a proud, honorable soldier, he would do his best not to let the vietcong think that they had beaten him.
this would feed right into the “randi rhodes” and daily kooks theories that he wasn’t really tortured, he made 35 propaganda videos for the viet cong , they called him “prince”, yada yada
i’ll bet these lib pansies wouldn’t last more than 1 minute of torture before they caved. actually they wouldn’t have to be tortured. they would give up the USA in a heartbeat; for free.
They will say something about the salute, too. They will say he is lying about not being able to raise his arms.