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



>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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