Why Vietnam Loves McCain

Why does McCain still deny that the Soviets were
involved in the interrogation of U.S. POWs in Vietnam?

Does McCain's former interrogators, the communist
Vietnamese, Russians, Chinese and Cubans have anything
in their secret intelligence files about his behavior
as a prisoner with which they could blackmail a
President John McCain?

McCain was once treated for Posttraumatic Stress
Disorder (PTSD) which is said to get worse over time
for former POWs, what is the status of his treatment?

Does McCain still harbor stress triggered suicidal
tendencies?

Where was McCain and what was happening to him during
the months he was missing from the POW camp?

McCain's Campaign ad says he refused early release.

Actually Vietnam Vets tell a different story

News pundants have elevated McCain to "the most
popular national political figure in the country" by
repeatedly describing him as a "war hero" based on his
refusal accept a communist offer of "early release"
from captivity.

What the media has carelessly refused to acknowledge
is that the camp's senior ranking U.S. POW (SRO) had
issued unquestionable orders that if a POW was to be
released, "it would be the longest held prisoner"
Because McCain was not the longest held POW, he would
have faced a military court-marshal if he had accepted
the offer.

In 1949 Dr. Andrew Salter authored Conditioned Reflex
Therapy, a pioneering work in the field of
psychoanalysis. Ten years later, as Richard Condon was
writing The Manchurian Candidate, he asked Dr. Salter
to help "design" the brainwashed character for the
book and subsequent movie.

More than 40 years later, in 1992, during the C-SPAN
broadcasts of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA
Affairs, Dr. Salter watched the hearings from his New
York City apartment. Salter became fascinated with
McCain's overly aggressive and angry behavior toward
witnesses, especially family members of men still
missing in action. After a few hours he called a
friend telling her, "the signs are all there, I'm
afraid Senator John McCain has been brainwashed."

During the Senate Select hearings, McCain opposed all
efforts by the POW/MIA families and activists to have
the Select Committee expand its investigation to study
how successful the Vietnamese, Soviet, Chinese and
Cuban interrogation apparatuses were at exploiting
American prisoners of war.

McCain has resisted any kind of war crimes
investigation of his former Vietnamese torturers.
Prosecution and subsequent trials could bring to
justice the Vietnamese torturers known by the American
POWs as the Bug, Slopehead, the Prick, the Soft Soap
Fairy, Rabbit, the Cat, Zorba and many others who were
responsible for the murder in North Vietnam of at
least 55 U.S. POWs and the brutal torture of hundreds
of others.

In November 1991, Tracy Usry, chief investigator of
the Minority Staff of the U.S. Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, testified before the Senate
Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs, that the Soviets
interrogated U.S. prisoners of war in Vietnam. McCain
became outraged, interrupting Usry several times,
arguing that "none of the returned U.S. prisoners of
war released by Vietnam were ever interrogated by the
Soviets."

Former KGB Maj. Gen. Oleg Kalugin testified during the
hearings that the KGB did interrogate U.S. POWs in
Vietnam. Kalugin stated that one of the POWs worked on
by the KGB was a "high-ranking naval officer," who,
according to Kalugin, agreed to work with the Soviets
upon his repatriation to the United States and has
frequently appeared on U.S. television.

Col. Bui Tin, a former Senior Colonel in the North
Vietnamese Army, testified on the same day, but after
Usry, that because of his high position in the
Communist Party during the war he had the authority to
"read all documents and secret telegrams from the
politburo" pertaining to American prisoners of war. He
said that not only did the Soviets interrogate some
American prisoners of war, but that they treated the
Americans very badly.

McCain stunned onlookers at the hearing when he moved
to the witness table and physically embraced Col. Tin
as if he was a long, lost brother.

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These are curious comments. Maybe McCain didn't have such a hard time in Vietnam after all, especially after the Vietnamese found out that his dad and grandfather were important military men. Sure makes one wonder who's telling the truth.

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Senator McCain doesn't like to talk about his time as a POW? Has Ms. Bailey been listening? From shutting off criticism of his lack of Arizona residency to reacting with badly suppressed rage at a request to define just how former POW status makes him more qualified for the Presidency, his "war hero" status has become an icon. Tom Paxton put it well: "It's fine to look back, as long as you don't stare."

Time changes many things, and memories are high on the list. Prisoners remember their incarceration differently than wardens. Having had the opportunity to participate in Viet Nam and Desert Shield/Storm, I used to think that we had remembered the problems attendant to entering a war without a clear idea of what we intended to accomplish. Our leaders have shown they did not.

Saudi Arabians, nineteen of them, flew loaded air liners into the World Towers. For lack of an enemy, we bombed Iraq. That's the best that you can say for that war. We abandoned our legitimate efforts in Afghanistan for the folly of Iraq, and all we have heard from the perpetrators since then is an endless series of fallacious reasons why we should have done such an insane thing as to bomb someone, anyone, in some frustrated and misguided effort to take revenge. The only similarity between the tower bombers and the Iraqis we went to war with was their religion. This act is an historical tragedy and a mockery of a president who claims to be a religious man. We could call him a hypocrite if he had sense enough to see the hypocrisy, but that remains doubtful.

These comments come from Vietnamese citizens who cannot even vote in their own country? How about McCain's argument that he would never talk to our country's enemies? Vietnam is still a communist country that ran re-education camps and repressed its people from expressing their free-will. McCain was there in Vietnam early after "normalization" in the mid-1990's to lobby the Vietnamese for American businesses, not to push for democratic reforms. He talked to the enemy in order to push big business and their outsourcing interests which in the end led to a loss of US workers manufacturing jobs. Of course some Vietnamese would vote (if they could) for him because he would push their economic and political agendas, not America's. He is the worst kind of hypocrite.

These comments come from Vietnamese citizens who cannot even vote in their own country? How about McCain's argument that he would never talk to our country's enemies? Vietnam is still a communist country that ran re-education camps and subjugated its people from expressing their free-will. McCain was there in Vietnam early after "normalization" in the mid-1990's to lobby the Vietnamese for American businesses, not to push for democratic reforms. He talked to the enemy to push big business and outsourcing which cost US workers manufacturing jobs. Of course some Vietnamese would vote (if they could) for him because he would push their economic and political agendas, not America's. He is the worst kind of hypocrite.

woops left out when we leave Iraq

just like Vietnam...when we leave the people will go back to what their used to and once again our men will have died for nothing...you can't win a civil war..what a waste of our young men in both of these wars.

You want to talk about direct connection to the Terrorists, read about the REALLY close relationship the Bush family has had with the House of Saud/binLaden family for the past 50 years. Bandar bin Laden is practically W's brother. The entire bin Laden family is in bed with the Bush family - guess why? OIL!

GLORY GLORY GLORY :ASK NOT WHAT McCAINE WOULD DO FOR THE COMMUNISTS IN VIETNAM ASK WHAT HE WOULD DO FOR THOSR THAT HAD TO FLEE THEIR HOMELAND AND NOW LIVE IN AMERICA.
ASK WHAT HE WOULD DO FOR THE MIDDLECLASS
ASK WHY IN HIS 26 YEARS IN CONGRESS HE HAS NOT VIGEROUSLY PRODDED THE OIL INDUSTRY TO PRODUCE OIL FORM THE LEASED AREAS.
VOTE OBAMMA