While Barack Obama gathers the endorsements of every violent tyrant, regime, and terror group, John McCain scores an amazing endorsement from the man who kept him captive for 5 years in North Vietnam.
The "Hanoi Hilton" is now a museum - containing McCain's air force suit. (BBC News)
Blue Grass, Red State has more on the endorsement by Vietnam jailor Tran Trong Duyet.
The BBC reported:
"McCain is my friend," said 75-year-old Mr Duyet as he feeds the caged birds he now keeps in his garden in this coastal city.Mr. Duyet is talking about prisoner "624787":
"If I was American, I would vote for him."
The AFP reported:
Republican US presidential candidate John McCain got some unexpected support on Monday from his former Vietnam war jailer, who said he would vote for the former navy pilot if he could.Awesome.
Speaking to the BBC from Haiphong, Tran Trong Duyet also insisted that McCain's assertions that he was tortured during his time at the prison were lies, and that no one held there was ever subjected to torture.
Describing McCain as his "friend", Duyet told the broadcaster: "If I was American, I would vote for him."
John McCain was a Navy pilot not Air Force!
ReplyDeleteIt's official! Three out of four Vietnamese communist torturers recommend John McCain for President.
ReplyDeleteSurprise hit of the Vietnamese television season:
"Everybody Tortures John."
But seriously folks, in my mind this may be John McCain's ultimate victory over the Communists. Just think: in a few months, the Vietnamese officer who performed almost unspeakable torture on McCain will be bragging all over Hanoi that he "knows the new American President."
This doesn't do well to dispell the "manchurian candidate" conspiracy about McCain.
ReplyDeleteThis, coupled with McCain's odd referral to a Mao quote when he was on The Daily Show.
Anywho, I don't believe it, but the crazies will run with this bit of info.
McCain is not perfect, but he is a legit hero. God bless him for his service to our country! He has my vote!
ReplyDeleteBob Hope is makin' a comeback here!?!?!
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"McCain's air force suit" BBC
ReplyDeleteI guess getting basic facts right are not important in journalism.
McCain was in the Navy dummies. If the media can't be trusted with basic facts, how can they "digest issues of the complex world" for us? Come on BBC! It only takes two minutes to figure this out.
This is clearly intended to undermine McCain's status as a war hero: "McCain is my friend,"..."insisted that McCain's assertions that he was tortured during his time at the prison were lies." This plays directly to the whackos who suggest (in some cases insist) that McCain was never tortured and gave up information to the enemy. The sad part is that other than his dissembling about the torture, Mr Duyet may very well be sincere. If I'm not mistaken, McCain has been to Vietnam and publicly forgiven his jailers. But make no mistake, his statements are being used to attack McCain's reputation.
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