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Stories about McCain’s actions as a POW have long circulated in the media. I am sure Trump has learned of them. The truth is, McCain’s conduct as a POW violated The Code:

Consisting of six articles in simple language, the United States Military Code of Conduct orders American military personnel to resist capture at all cost and if captured; to attempt to escape, to give the enemy no information other than name, rank, serial number and date of birth, to take charge if senior, to obey orders of the seniors, to accept no favors from the enemy and to make no written or oral statements disloyal to the United States.

“A lot of people don’t know… that McCain made a propaganda video for the enemy while he was in captivity,” wrote American blogger John Aravosis. The reason such information does not come out is that McCain’s “hero” perception is too well established to be upset by the information filtering out that speaks otherwise.

ON Nov. 9, 1967 (U.S. government documents) Hanoi press began quoting him giving specific military information. One report read, “To a question of the correspondent, McCain answered: ‘My assignment to the Oriskany, I told myself, was due to serious losses in pilots, which were sustained by this aircraft carrier (due to its raids on the North Vietnam territory - VNA) and which necessitated replacements. From 10 to 12 pilots were transferred like me from the Forrestal to the Oriskany. Before I was shot down, we had made several sorties. Altogether, I made about 23 flights over North Vietnam.’” In that report, McCain was quoted describing the number of aircraft in his flight, information about rescue ships, and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place.

A declassified DOD document reports an interview between POW McCain and Dr. Fernando Barral, a Spanish psychiatrist who was living in Cuba at the time. The interview was published in the Havana Granma in January 1970.

According to the DOD report, the meeting between Barral and McCain (which was photographed by the Vietnamese) took place away from the prison at the office of the Committee for Foreign Cultural Relations in Hanoi. During the meeting, POW McCain sipped coffee and ate oranges and cakes with his interrogator.

While talking with Barral, McCain seriously violated the military Code of Conduct by failing to evade answering questions “to the utmost” of his ability when he, according to the DOD report, helped Barral by answering questions in Spanish, a language McCain had learned in school.

1999 - March 25, 1999, The Phoenix New Times: Ted Guy and Gordon “Swede” Larson, two former POWs, who were McCain’s senior ranking officers (SRO’s), at the time McCain says he was tortured in solitary confinement, told the New Times that while they could not guarantee that McCain was not physically harmed, they doubted it.

“Between the two of us, it’s our belief, and to the best of our knowledge, that no prisoner was beaten or harmed physically in that camp ,” Larson says. “. . . My only contention with the McCain deal is that while he was at The Plantation, to the best of my knowledge and Ted’s knowledge, he was not physically abused in any way. No one was in that camp. It was the camp that people were released from.”

Please read your own post:

The Hanoi press.... SAYS McCain SAID...

One report (from Hanoi) SAYS McCain SAID

A Castro Communist Cuban reporter, (not a Spanish MD/reporter) SAYS McCain SAID... .

A BLOGGER says McCain made a film... (that no one has ever been able to produce)

The Phoenix New Times (a comm/lib “underground” Dem paper) says.... that 2 people who did not know McCain say...

WE ARE SMARTER THAN THIS!