Time and again, the major media delight in featuring Senator John McCain's opinions as representative of our POW's from the Vietnam War, especially when they concur with liberal viewpoints. This is, actually, not so, now about corecive interrogations that McCain would make blanket illegal.
Here's a letter from a POW, 7 1/2 years subjected to North Vietnamese imprisonment, a superior officer whose cell he shared, also citing the superior officer of all POW's and a POW Congressman.
Do whatever it takes to make terrorists talk I unequivocally disagree with Sen. John McCain's view that the U.S should ban torture. We must not hamstring the CIA in its efforts to get information from high-ranking terrorists on which our very survival may depend. Our lofty ideals, our constant thinking that we are the good guys who refuse to fight this enemy with every weapon at our disposal, is all wrong and pathetically naive. We should do whatever it takes -- yes, fight them, down and dirty -- to show our enemies that they can't mess with us and get away with it. I know McCain very well, having lived with him for two years as a prisoner of war in Hanoi, North Vietnam. I'm disappointed that he has no party loyalty and that he has become a media darling and the consummate politician. I just spoke to Col. Bud Day, Medal of Honor winner in Vietnam. He also feels that McCain is way off base. So does U.S. Rep. Sam Johnson, another Hanoi ex-POW. Politicizing the war in Iraq is an ugly stunt and is all about party power. Isn't it about time to give our president the benefit of any doubt, and show him some loyalty?