McCain on Torture
Has anybody asked, by the way, what John McCain's views are on torture?
Anyway, I came across this weird item on Bourque this morning:
A former Vietnam veteran with top secret clearance says he has personally spoken to numerous POW's who dispute John McCain's claim that he refused to provide information after he was captured and tortured in Hanoi, saying that in fact McCain's code-name was "Songbird" because of his willingness to tell all to avoid torture.
Aside from this article, which may or may not have any validity to it, I've often wondered, "How much information did John McCain have to be tortured over for five years?!"
I mean, c'mon. How high up was he that he'd be worth torturing for five years for information about American military operations in Vietnam? Seriously. And even if you did "sing like a bird", what if you just weren't very well-informed or happened to be a really good liar? Wouldn't your torturers get a bit suspicious if you STILL had relevant information to squeal to them after being in captivity for five years?!
I dunno. Maybe the Americans should have just let Communism fall on its own and stayed right the hell out of Vietnam.
