Posted on 10/24/2008 10:06:32 PM PDT by bruinbirdman
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Where the accounts differ most starkly is in the period of Mr McCain’s long incarceration as a PoW – first at the prison known as the Hanoi Hilton, then at The Plantation.
Tran Trong Duyet, the former prison director who now surrounds himself with caged birds in a house in Hai Phong, first met Mr McCain a year after he had been shot down. He recalls a defiant rule-breaker, the patriotic son of an admiral and a fervent believer in the war. What he does not recall, however, is a victim of torture or violence.
“I never tortured or mistreated the PoWs and nor did my staff,” says Mr Duyet in contradiction of Mr McCain’s account and those of other prisoners. “The Americans were dropping bombs on military and civilian targets – so it’s not as if they had important information we needed to extract.” Mr Duyet says that he sympathises with Mr McCain and other PoWs for claiming that they were tortured. “It’s up to the Americans to decide whether or not he counts as a hero. He was very brave, very manly, he dared to argue with me and he was very intelligent. But all the talk of being tortured is for the sake of votes.”
The McCain campaign refused to comment on the claims yesterday. Mr McCain did eventually sign a confession to his supposed crimes against the Vietnamese people and holds that it was only extracted after weeks of pain inflicted by his tormentors. In a more recent interview Mr McCain explained the signing of the confession as his failure.
Nguyen Tien Tran, another of the directors at the prison, confirms his colleague’s story: “We had a clear code of taking care of the injured. We did our best to patch McCain
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Words fail me.
It makes me sick that America would chose someone like Obama over a TRUE hero like McCain.
That being said, I hope the MSM goes with this one. It will backfire HUGE!!!!!
Truly disgusting POS....
I really can’t be bothered reading this, but I wonder if they explain why McCain can’t raise his arms above his shoulders.
It’s time for John McCain to buy a half hour of primetime TV. Just talking about this one piece of history will win him the election. He doesn’t even have to go negative on Obama, which he’s so reluctant to do.
Of course McCain and many others were tortured. How the heck did they get such severe shoulder injuries? It was from what the Vietcong called “The Rope Trick”.
Well we are going to with his so called soaring words possibly elect a communist, so we may as well take another communist at his word as well.
Viet Cong For Obama.
How sad.
Well, good. Glad we got that cleared up.
“Extermination camps? What extermination camps? Those films we’ve seen, showing mountains of corpses being plowed into the earth, are fakes. Oh, and the eye-witnesses are lying.”
- Herman Goering, at the Nuremberg trials
LOL! Funny stuff. Now all Vietnam POWs are liars. How much lower can the DNC’s Commie ‘RATS go.
Apparently they have no hidden agendas and are always right and never tell any lies, unlike Americans.
What is truth to the revolution? Isn’t that the belief? “Truth” is whatever fosters the revolution. Long live the party elite.
And the Holocaust didn’t happen....
I sure wish the media spent as much as investigating Obama as they do on McCain and Palin.
the 4th estate is a 5th column.
He wasn’t tourtured in “my jail”....
....but the “tourture room” isn’t “technically” part of the jail.
Sarc alert from me :)
I’d suppose John’s injuries were all from a boating accident.
Uh-huh.
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