McBush must really be hard up for votes if he has to go to N. Vietnam to get them.

Whatever you think of John McCain, he was a POW for a long time and he ought to know how he was treated. Whether or not the captor considers it harsh punishment, I'm sure for a POW it would be perceived that way.

McCain wasn't there for fun and a sleepover. He couldn't leave!!

this is certainly pertinent
let's all us viet nam vets buy this guys story about no torture and how his opinion matters about who we should vote for

I guess he's not like "The Chameleons" there, with their "flip flop's", such as Hanoi Jane (Jane Fonda) was, as for Sen. John McCain unusual endorsement from his Vietnamese jailer when he was a POW, who says he held him captive for about five years as a POW, and now considers him a friend after we lost the war, and there's still over 2500 POW's still there we never found to date, I would ask this "friend" Tran Trong Duyet where did they hide the other's, we want to know, because your not a American voter, so you could not vote for Mr. John McCain but thanks for the offer anyway. McCain may of spent 5 1/2 years behind bars in Hanoi, but the other POW's are still there in 2008.

Pray for out troops and all Veteran's.

. . . just four days into his captivity, when he OFFERED and then gave valid and valuable military information to his captors in return for military treatment he wanted (I'm not pulling this out of thin air -- this is something McCain himself admits doing . . . in his own words . . . both in an inverview in the May 14, 1973 issue of US News and World Report and in his autobiography FAITH OF MY FATHERS). From the information he gave them, McCain could have well given the enemy the key to understanding the US Navy air order of battle for the Vietnam area. That's a betrayal of the worst sort.

No wonder one of McCain's former "friends" think he'd be a good choice for president. Makes one wonder what he'd offer them and give them THIS time. We really don't need to give McCain another chance to betray this country.

Liberal feminist Gloria Steinem brushed off John McCain’s ordeal as a prisoner of war and torture victim in Vietnam, saying it doesn’t qualify him to be president.Steinem’s slap at McCain’s 5 1/2 years in captivity came during a “Women for Hillary” campaign event in Austin, Tex.“This is supposed to be a qualification to be president?” Steinem told the crowd as she was discussing McCain’s captivity by the Viet Cong, the New York Observer reported. “I don’t think so.”Steinem, a staunch Hillary supporter who claims the press has a gender-based bias against Clinton, also said in Texas:“Suppose John McCain had been Joan McCain and had got captured, shot down and been a POW for eight years.“Reporters would ask, ‘What did you do wrong to get captured? What terrible things did you do while you were there as a captive for eight years?"The Clinton campaign quickly distanced itself from Steinem’s remarks, according to the New York Post. Campaign spokesman Howard Wolfson said: “Senator Clinton has repeatedly praised Senator McCain’s courage and service to our country.

What is the real story behind his days as a POW? The U.S. Veteran
Dispatch had an article in June of 1996 entitled "POW Songbird McCain
Wrongly Described As A Hero." It recounted numerous instances where
John McCain violated the Military Coda of Conduct, which specifically
orders American personnel to give the enemy no information other than
name, rank, serial number, and date of birth. It requires that they
accept no favors from the enemy, and to make no written or oral
statement disloyal to the United States.

The fact is, in exchange for better medical treatment, McCain violated
this code four days after being captured on Oct. 26, 1967. In a U.S.
News and World Report interview dated May 14, 1973, two months after
he was released, McCain admitted that he exchanged military
information in exchange for spending six weeks in a hospital normally
reserve for North Vietnamese Military officers.

I don't think any of us are capable of making judgments about McCain's conduct as a POW unless we were there with him. It's the 'here and now" that ought to concern us as voters.

I also see no possible reason for Vietnam to still hold US prisoners. The war's been over for more than 30 years, and those 2500 or so simply aren't coming back. Thinking anything else about those poor men is borderline loony.

McCain is touting his POW experience as a credential in his run for President. That makes it something that needs to be seriously examined and critiqued to ensure that it indeed qualifies him for the position. HE put the issue on the table. Now we should all take a close look at HIS OWN WORDS to see how badly he performed. To put it bluntly, the fact that he betrayed his oath, and in so doing betrayed his country, its Navy, his ship and his shipmates by offering, then providing, valid and valuable military information just four days into captivity argues strongly against his claims. No, thanks, Songbird Johnny -- I don't want to give you canother chance to betray my country . . . a country that I dearly love.

As to the POWs still in captivity -- they're my age, and people older than I are still alive and living vital lives. There's every reason to think that some of them may still be alive too and none on whicht o base a claim that they're all dead. Don't you think THEY should have a chance for a good rest-of-their-lives too?

I'm actually backing Obama. I just think the POW experience is so long ago and so unlike being PRESIDENT that it's another non-issue, just like the attack on Kerry by the "Swiftboaters".

Teams of US military have been all over Vietnam, with permission of the government. If prisoners were still there, wouldn't the Vietnamese want something in exchange? Otherwise, it's just a group of foreign men that THEY have to feed every day for 30 or 40 years. Why keep prisoners if it serves no military or economic purpose? IF any remain alive, they are staying by choice.

Is this guy (who may or may not even have understood the import of what he was saying) interested in paying McCain's taxes too?

John McCain who is married to a $100million beer fortune hasn't paid the taxes on ocean front CA property in 5 years. Guess when he voted for the legislation that saved Cindy and him big bucks they thought they shouldn't have to pay property taxes either.

Keep that in mind when he starts talking about how sympathetic he is about your tax burden.

I just had to investigate the charge that McCain hasn't paid property taxes. He hasn't. For 4 years!

How can he run a government if he can't keep track of 7 houses or hire people who can? That's what the business of the federal government is only infinitely bigger and more complicated.

McCain served honorably and sacrificed a lot for this country. What has Obama sacrificed besides his pastor, church, grandmother, white woman, bitter working class, integrity, change and public financing? To those challanging Mccain's honor, maybe you should learn the facts about his captivity in a POW camp. I learned more about the Hanoi Hilton when a former POW gave a speech and talked with our Airman Leadership class while I was in the Air Force about his time in the Hanoi Hilton. He didn't sugarcoat it one bit.

I doubt any of you could of withstood the punishment McCain recieved. I am suprised he lasted 4 days. A lesser man would of lasted less or died after breaking both arms, a leg, nearly drowning, getting his shoulder crushed in an attack from a mob and bayoneted. After that he was tortured and interrogated. I really like how you guys leave that part out. All I can is shame on you people who question his honor and service. I bet most of you have never served a day in your life just like Obama. You are no better than the people who swiftboated Sen Kerry last election.