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John McCain is the son of the former ADMIRAL EDMOND JOHN MCCAIN, COMMANDER
IN CHIEF OF U.S. NAVAL
FORCES IN EUROPE.
He was accorded "special" treatment and only spent about 1 day in the in
famous "Hanois Hilton"
After returning from 'nam he was the driving force in leaving our POW's
there to rot. He should
have been arrested upon his return to the military as someone who spilled
his guts about
everything he knew to N Vietnamese.
McCain has said repeatedly that he was afforded no special treatment while
in the "Hanoi Hilton".
Yet when he was first interviewed by the North Vietnamese he is shown at a
hospital reserved for
Vietnamese military and he was seen by Soviet Surgeons. He was drinking
coffee and smoking
cigarettes while being interviewed. This was a far cry from the way the
rest
of the POWs were
treated.
His wife at the time, was a member of the National League of Families and
she fought to make sure
that John McCain came home. He rewarded this loyalty by divorcing her
after
his return.
He was shot down October 26, 1967, and by November 9, 1967 he was giving
interviews to foreign
correspondents, providing information on his prior command, casualties and
tactics, in direct
violation of the Code of Conduct. (The U.S. military Code of Conduct is
the
definitive code
specifying the responsibilities of American military personnel while in
combat or captivity.
Article V of the Code is very specific in ordering U.S. military personnel
to avoid answering
questions to the utmost of their ability and to make no #### or written
statements disloyal to
the United States and its allies, or harmful to their cause. Any willful
violation of the Code is
considered collaborating with the enemy.)
The Communist Vietnamese erected a bust of John McCain beside the lake
where
he was shot down.
His defenders say that this is a tribute to the PAVN gunners that shot him
down.
In the interview that he gave on November 9, 1967 to VNA International, he
claims when he bailed
out and landed in the lake, that locals pulled him out and took him to the
hospital. Yet in the
U.S. News and World Re****t - May 14, 1973. McCain is quoted as saying "I
think it was on the
fourth day (after being shot down) that two guards came in, instead of
one.
One of them pulled
back the blanket to show the other guard my injury. I looked at my knee.
It
was about the size of
a football . . . when I saw it, I said to the guard, Ok, get the
officer'...an officer came in
after a few minutes. It was the man that we came to know very well as 'The
Bug'. He was a
psychotic torturer, one of the worst fiends that we had to deal with. I
said, Ok, I'll give you
military information if you will take me to the hospital."
While testifying before the Senate Select Committee, the very man McCain
claims was responsible
for his own torture, his interrogator, "The Bug" was appearing. When the
moment of confrontation
came, McCain rose from his seat, walked from the podium to the floor and
stood face to face with
the man who was responsible for torturing him and countless other
Prisoners
of War...McCain then
grabbed the man and embraced him!
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