his SRO says he sang like a canary when he was a POW and that his idea of 'solitary confinement' was a 'room' on a tree-lined 'plantation' once used by a governor.

Besides, if he becomes president he doesn't have to worry about having to take walks to keep his melanoma away. We will be paying for his care.

John McCain 'Sang Like a Canary' to the North Vietnamese

Material Supplied by Colonel Ted Guy
John McCain's SRO at the Plantation
Dedicated to the Memory of Ted Guy
15 April 2008

The Text of the Interview by Nhan Dan
With John McCain
9 November 1967

Fear still clearly showed on his face when he recalled his disastrous sortie on 26 October against Hanoi. The briefing was held in the morning," he said. "That's right. I remember that it was in the morning that they told me of the situation and the plan of the raid, which should take place about noon. A reconnaissance officer explained this plan to me. They showed me photographs of my target and marked out the paths to be followed by the Oriskany at this point. They pointed out to me a number of anti aircraft positions near Hanoi and a number of possible rocket positions, the position of our rescue ships, the radio frequency, the composition of the flight, and so forth. Upon arrival near the target, our formation, with six bombers, would mount the attack according to the following order: I would be number three, and the chief of the formation, number one. Each pilot would have to approach the target from a different direction. The choice of which would be left ...

While moving toward the target...

(The following excerpt is found by following the link at the bottom of the page about McSang as a POW:)

Nevertheless, in John McCain's case it is clear that he would have been left to die had it not been for his father, ADM John S. McCain, Jr., then-commander-in-chief of U.S. Naval Forces Europe. As he had in the past when his son got into trouble rebelling against authority, John McCain Jr. rescued him by direct intervention. In this case, it was simply luck of the draw' for his son, 'The Crown Prince.' According to the P.O.W book [9], "The Vietnamese had not been quick about identifying [McCain] and had nearly let him die… 'We have the crown prince!' exclaimed [his jailers]. [They] crowed the news to their captives." McCain was taken to a hospital soon after they learned of his famous father. The book, 'Honor Bound,' reveals that [10] "The captors judged the 'crown prince' a prize worth saving and a natural for The Plantation propaganda stagings once he was well enough to be taken there."

It is at this point that the new information, heretofore privately held, but now available and previously authenticated by Department of Defense authorities at the time, documents the extent to which John McCain 'sang like a canary' while in the North Vietnamese hospital and in his 'room' during the several weeks he was at the Hoa Lo prison before being transferred to The Plantation. He revealed military information to the enemy in return for obtaining medical treatment as he had promised his interrogator, 'Bug.' Such medical treatment was denied to many other wounded POWs (e.g. Ray Vohden [11], who two-and-one-half years after his shootdown, had been tortured by the Cubans at the Zoo. His right shinbone had been snapped just above the ankle and after a 'good deal of amateur carpentry' on the injury, about three inches of the shinbone were missing. Vohden had suffered a lot of infection in the leg and was still in considerable pain and on crutches at the time of his torture. And Jim Bell [12], who was marched through the angry Hanoi crowd on the infamous 'march' of the Zoo and Briarpatch prisoners through the streets to the stadium, while being viciously pummeled by the maniacally supercharged people along the way, "…word flashed through the mob that [Bell and his march-mate] were the last twosome. The crowd closed in on him, and for Bell, who had suffered a terrible shoulder injury during his shootdown nine months earlier, it was an especially painful injury." His broken shoulder would not be mended until he returned home. Bell, in his wife's book on her experiences during those days remarks, [13] "Ray was one of the few prisoners that actually did receive some medical treatment in Hanoi. Most of us with broken arms, ribs, dislocations, and such were not treated. Broken legs were treated within their very limited capabilities and resources."

It is up to the reader to judge whether or not he or she would have made the same decision that John McCain made. It is clear from the Hannity interview that Sean would not have hesitated to make the trade. But Sean Hannity was not a 'warrior,' a professional military officer who had been trained to withstand such hardship while in enemy hands. He had not taken an oath to observe the Code of Conduct that was the standard for our Prisoners of War. John McCain was bound by that oath. Nevertheless, there were several glaring problems with McCain's interview with Hannity.

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The next major dissembling was McCain's response to Hannity's statement, "You spent two and one-half years in solitary confinement…" The fact is that McCain was never in solitary confinement as it is generally recognized - a cramped cell of small dimension, in darkness and solitude with no means of communicating with another human being. Instead, McCain spent those two years at The Plantation, situated on a tree-lined two acres which had formerly been the home of the colonial mayor of Hanoi [16]. "The faded grandeur of the place inspired the nickname 'Plantation,' although the prisoners referred to the site by a number of names as well, among them 'Country Club,' 'Funny Farm,' 'Holiday Inn' … The Vietnamese converted a portion of the facility into a Potemkin village of sanitized cells, garden patches, and scrubbed corridors that would serve as a showplace for displaying the captives to visiting delegations and conducting photo sessions and other propaganda activities…The POWs lived in…outbuildings that once contained servants' quarters and utilities…the cells varied from 6 feet by 10 feet to 14 feet by 24 feet, holding from one to five men. They were spacious, even by Vegas standards. Most comfortable were the three cells that comprised the 'Show Room,' the area featured in the propaganda events. As one would expect in a 'show' camp, carrots predominated over sticks in the treatment of captives. There was little physical abuse, at least initially [during the time of McCain's initial internment], rather mostly soft-sell efforts to modify attitudes through indoctrination quizzes, visits to historic sites or to view local bomb damage, and exposure to antiwar literature. Though exercise was limited…the prisoners did get outside to make coal balls for the kitchen, dump waste buckets, and use the bath stalls two or three times a week."

McCain gives away the nature of the 'cell' in which he ended up inhabiting at The Plantation in his U.S. & World Report article, when he describes the interview he had with 'The Cat,' the commander of all the POW camps at the time, who offered him his release during June of 1968. McCain wrote [17], "I really didn't know what to think, because I had been having these other interrogations in which I had refused to co-operate. It was not hard because they were not torturing me at this time. They just told me I'd never go home and I was going to be tried as a war criminal…I was astonished, and I tell you frankly that I said that I would have to think about it. I went back to my room, and I thought about it for a long time." That's right, you see it right there in print - McCain referred to his 'room,' not his 'cell.' And that room' was the same 10 foot by 10 foot 'cell' that he, Bud Day, and Norris Overly shared before the latter two left The Plantation in March 1968.

He left the wife who had waited for him while he was singing to the enemy and he married money.

He is not a good man and he is certainly not fit to be CIC.

I'm still trying to figure out how taking a walk (there's sunshine out there!) is supposed to keep the melanoma monster away.

McSame's a dumbass.

to receive as POTUS.

Those.