John McCain’s Captors: We Didn’t Torture
An astounding sound bite from Tran Trong Duyet, keeper of Hoa Lo prison, where John McCain was held, beaten, and tortured:
“I don’t know how he’d react if he met me again,” said Mr Duyet, flicking through old black and white photographs of himself and his American prisoners at Hoa Lo.
“But I can confirm to you that we never tortured him. We never tortured any prisoners.”
I guess we know where our government learned to say that waterboarding wasn’t torture, too. By McCain’s own account, he was beaten, held in solitary confinement, and subjected to torture that permanently disabled him.
Duyet’s entire interview is nothing but party-line propaganda, similar to the same spew that comes out of this administration about torture, Guantanamo, and civil rights.
So is Mr Duyet implying that that Senator McCain lied about his treatment at the Hanoi Hilton?
“He did not tell the truth,” he says.
“But I can somehow sympathise with him. He lies to American voters in order to get their support for his presidential election.” .
Reading this just leaves me cold. I believe McCain was tortured in Vietnam, which makes his vote against the Intelligence Authorization Act that much more unbelievable. How can someone who was subjected to torture turn to a propaganda spinner like Duyet?
I suppose it depends upon how desperate he is to get elected.