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Not long ago, a reader castigated Sen. John McCain for losing three airplanes and “confessing” to his captors. If anyone out there doubts how other POWs feel about the senator, I invite them to this web site: http://www.wingmenformccain.com/, wherein his fellow captives comment on his character.
Also there are some pen and ink drawings by POW Mike McGrath (5 years and 6 months) of several of the many tortures inflicted by the Vietnamese captors. As POW Rod Knutson (7 years and 4 months) says, these are “interesting insights.” Take a look if you have doubts. One part of the site asks: “Could you last 24 hours?”
Creighton Bricker
Grand Junction
7 Responses to “POWs support McCain”
Posted October 31st, 2008 at 6:07 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
Seems you should dig a bit deeper on a few of McCain’s “War Stories”:
EXHIBIT 1
For the past two months, a major American magazine and an allied news service have been engaged in a legal battle with the United States Navy over records that they believe show that John McCain once was involved in an automobile accident that injured or, perhaps, killed another individual. Vanity Fair magazine and the National Security News Service claim to have knowledge “developed from first-hand sources” of a car crash that involved then-Lt. McCain at the main gate of a Virginia naval base in 1964, according to legal filings. The incident has been largely, if not entirely, kept from the public. And in documents suing the Navy to release pertinent information, lawyers for the NS News Service allege that a cover-up may be at play.
EXHIBIT 2
John McCain’s personal account of his life has shaped a powerful political narrative that accords him deference on the full range of policy issues. His first effort at shaping that narrative received a remarkable boost when the May 14, 1973, edition of U.S. News & World Report gave him space for what is perhaps the longest article the magazine had ever run, a 12,000-word piece composed entirely of his unedited and often rambling account of his prisoner-of-war experience. Ever since, McCain has added compelling details at key points in his political career. When his stories are placed beside documented evidence from other sources, significant contradictions often emerge. One such case involves McCain’s experience in the devastating fire and explosions that killed 134 sailors on the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal during the Vietnam War three months before he was shot down over North Vietnam. McCain has made claims about this accident that differ dramatically from parts of the official Navy report and accounts of reliable eyewitnesses.
EXHIBIT 3
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 sympathizes 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.
Posted November 2nd, 2008 at 9:51 pm Login to Send PM Report this comment
EXHIBIT 1 - pure speculation
EXHIBIT 2 - And your point is?
EXHIBIT 3 - ‘“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.’ Now you are grasping at straws. This is like denying the holocaust.
Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
I understand ’speculation’.
The US was monitoring international calls from known terrorists INTO the US to persons located on US Soil.
Some of those calls from KNOWN TERRORISTS in other countries may have been to KNOWN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS such as William Ayers, close friend, supporter, and confidant of Barack Obama.
Prove me wrong Mike.
Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 9:32 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Willis,
Why should he have to prove a fundamental law of nature?
Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 9:40 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Good morning, Willis. It is a lovely day, isn’t it?
Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
Swimmingly beautiful here in Birmingham.
Sunny, light breeze and no aroma of exhaust fumes in the air.
Posted November 3rd, 2008 at 9:52 am Login to Send PM Report this comment
dc - And it’s going to be an even a lovelier day tomorrow when Barack Hussein Obama becomes the President-Elect of the United States of AmeriKa.
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