Re: [Marxism] McCain Was Not Tortured Claims Former Vietnamese Prison Guard

[Aaron Aarons <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>From: Jscotlive@xxxxxxx
>Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:35:35 EDT
> 
>The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain was not tortured during  
>his captivity in North Vietnam, the chief prison guard of the jail in which he 
> was held has claimed.
>In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Nguyen Tien Tran  
>acknowledged that conditions in the prison were "tough, though not inhuman". 
>But, he added: "We never tortured McCain. On the contrary, we saved his life, 
>curing him with extremely valuable medicines that at times were not available 
>to  our own wounded."

They should have executed him as a war criminal and saved the medicines for 
deserving Vietnamese.

 - Aaron

>In Full:
>_http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-johnmccain_ 
>(http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/14/uselections2008-johnmccain) 


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