[OFB Cafe] The TRUTH about John McCain

[Fred Smith]

>From a conservative news site written during the 2004 election:

John McCain the second-term Republican senator from Arizona and former
Navy pilot captured and held prisoner during the Vietnam War, is a
fraud, collaborator, and danger to the security of the United States
because he is being black-mailed by the communist Vietnamese. He is a
phony--a "rhinestone hero."

While a prisoner of war, McCain was treated as a "special prisoner,"
with privileges including being given his own private and affectionate
nurse.

McCain's treatment as a "special prisoner" is a contradiction to his
much publicized image of a great war hero who was severely tortured
and kept in solitary confinement for long periods of time because he
refused to break during interrogation.

Ted Guy, a former Air Force Colonel held 5 1/2 years by the Vietnamese
and McCain's senior ranking officer (SRO) in the POW camp, told the
U.S. Veteran Dispatch he cannot remember the communists ever laying a
hand on McCain.

Other sources have told the U.S. Veteran Dispatch that the Vietnamese
are holding as much as fifty hours of film footage secretly taken of
McCain during the time his KGB-trained handlers had him isolated from
other U.S. prisoners of war.

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McCain the collaborator

>From the first days of McCain's captivity, he seriously violated the
Military Code of Conduct, which outlines the basic responsibilities
and obligations of members of the Armed Forces of the United States
who have been captured by the enemy.

According to documentation obtained by the U.S. Veteran Dispatch, not
only did POW McCain promise to give the communists "military
information" in exchange for special hospital care not ordinarily
available to U.S. prisoners, but he also made numerous anti-war radio
broadcasts.

Article V of the Code of Conduct is very specific in declaring that
U.S. military personnel are required to avoid answering questions to
the utmost of their ability and to make no oral or written statements
disloyal to the United States and its allies or harmful to their
cause. Any violation of this code is considered collaborating with the
enemy.

The following is McCain's own admission of collaboration in an article
he wrote, printed May 14, 1973 in U.S. News and World Report:

"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, shape and color of a football. I remembered that when I was a
flying instructor a fellow had ejected from his plane and broken his
thigh. He had gone into shock, the blood had pooled in his leg, and he
died, which came as quite a surprise to us - a man dying of a broken
leg. Then I realized that a very similar thing was happening to me.

"When I saw it, I said to the guard, `O.K., 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, `O.K., I'll give
you military information if you will take me to the hospital.'"

The Admiral's son gets "special treatment"

McCain claims it was only a coincidence that, about the same time he
was begging to be taken to a hospital, the Vietnamese learned his
father was Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., commander of all U.S. forces
in Europe and soon-to-be commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific,
including Vietnam.

McCain does concede he survived because the Vietnamese learned who his
father was, rushing him to a hospital where his wounds were eagerly
treated.

The former POW admitted in the U.S. News and World Report article that
the Vietnamese usually left other U.S. prisoners with similar wounds
to die, not wishing to waste medication on them. McCain pointed out
"there were hardly any amputees among the prisoners who came back
because the North Vietnamese just would not give medical treatment to
someone who was badly injured. They weren't going to waste their
time."