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Flashback John McCain was not tortured in Vietnam prison, guard claims

Jon Swaine
Telegraph
Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:15 UTC
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It turns out that far from being tortured, McCain's life was saved by the people he was dropping bombs on daily.
Nguyen Tien Tran said: "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."

Mr McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, who was a Navy pilot during the Vietnam war, regularly refers to his experiences after being captured when his plane was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967.

He was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton", where he was kept for more than five years and subjected to such brutal beatings that he attempted suicide, he later recalled. Today he is unable to lift his arms above his head and, it recently emerged, finds activities requiring intensive use of his hands - such as typing - extremely painful.


Comment: Apparently this doesn't hinder his ability to draft legislation that enslaves the American people, start new wars or play online poker.


Yet in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Mr Nguyen insisted that conditions in the prison were "tough, though not inhuman". He said that Mr McCain had arrived with the worst injuries he had seen among downed pilots, and that it had been his job to keep the American alive.
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Flashback The Real McCain: Does Senator John McCain even know what a 'fact' is?

Robert Greenwald
Brave New Films
Sun, 18 May 2008 15:21 UTC
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The lies continue to fly fast and furious. See for yourself the two (at least) faces of John McCain as he stumbles, bumbles and lies his way through press conferences and interviews. All in all, another typical day in U.S. politics.

If this was from a spoof of the U.S. election it would be hilarious. Unfortunately, this is frighteningly real. This is the U.S. election. The "real" one, in a manner of speaking. However, the U.S. hasn't had a real election in some time. So in a way, this is a spoof of the U.S. election.


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Flashback How 'war hero' John McCain betrayed the Vietnamese peasant who saved his life


Daily Mail (UK)
Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:10 UTC
In all the tales of wartime courage peppering John McCain's presidential campaign trail, perhaps the most outstanding example of selfless heroism involves not the candidate but a humble Vietnamese peasant.



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Reunited: Senator McCain and his Vietnamese rescuer Mai Van On in Hanoi in 1996


On October 26, 1967, Mai Van On ran from the safety of a bomb shelter at the height of an air raid and swam out into the lake where Lieutenant Commander McCain was drowning, tangled in his parachute cord after ejecting when his Skyhawk bomber was hit by a missile.

In an extraordinary act of compassion at a time when Vietnamese citizens were being killed by US aerial bombardments, he pulled a barely conscious McCain to the lake surface and, with the help of a neighbour, dragged him towards the shore.

And when a furious mob at the water's edge began to beat and stab the captured pilot, Mr On drove them back.
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Code Pink protesters hold faux-bloody hands behind Kerry at house Syria hearing

Ben Shapiro
breitbart.com
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:18 UTC
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On Wednesday, Secretary of State John Kerry testified before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs over possible military action against Syria. As he testified, members of the antiwar group Code Pink held up their hands, which had been painted red to signify bloody hands. They also wore signs reading "US Out of Syria."

Kerry's history as an antiwar protester during the Vietnam War propelled him to political office originally. After supposedly throwing away his war medals - an account he went back and forth regarding during his 2004 presidential run - and slandering American troops as war criminals in Vietnam during the infamous Winter Soldier hearings, Kerry has now become the hawkish proponent of military action against the Assad regime.
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Kerry: Arab countries offered to pay for invasion

Aaron Blake
Washington Post
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:14 UTC

Secretary of State John Kerry said at Wednesday's hearing that Arab counties have offered to pay for the entirety of unseating President Bashar al-Assad if the United States took the lead militarily.

"With respect to Arab countries offering to bear costs and to assess, the answer is profoundly yes," Kerry said. "They have. That offer is on the table."
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Liberals reject Obama's case for Syria strikes; believe Obama and Kerry are lying

Stephen Dinan
Washington Times
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:11 UTC
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President Obama's liberal activist base is adamantly opposed to military strikes in Syria, according to a new survey the Progressive Change Campaign Committee released Wednesday.

PCCC says more than 57,000 of its activists weighed in, and 73 percent of them opposed the U.S. taking action in Syria. Just 18 percent supported strikes, and just 14 percent said the U.S. should go ahead unilaterally if it can't find any allies.

Indeed, a majority of the activists don't believe Mr. Obama and Secretary of State John F. Kerry are being honest when they lay out their justifications for taking military action.
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Putin: Kerry lied to Congress when he said that al Qaeda (CIA) units are not in Syria

Darya Korsunskaya
Reuters
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 14:06 UTC
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© Reuters/Alexei Druzhinin/RIA Novosti/KremlinRussian President Vladimir Putin speaks during an interview at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow September 3, 2013.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday the U.S. Congress had no right to approve the use of force against Syria without a decision from the U.N. Security Council, and that doing so would be an "act of aggression".

He said "anything that is outside the U.N. Security Council is aggression, except self-defense. Now what Congress and the U.S. Senate are doing in essence is legitimizing aggression. This is inadmissible in principle."

In remarks that could raise tension further before he hosts President Barack Obama and other G20 leaders on Thursday, Putin also said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry lied to Congress about the militant group al Qaeda's role in the Syrian conflict.
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Obama: International community's 'credibility is on the line'

Jake Miller
CBS News
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:59 UTC

President Obama took his case for intervention in Syria to the foreign stage on Wednesday, telling a Swedish audience - and a broader European community that has largely resisted American calls for support - that the "international community's credibility is on the line" as it decides how to respond to evidence that the Syrian government, under President Bashar al Assad, used chemical weapons to kill over 1,400 civilians.

Where the use of such weapons is concerned, Mr. Obama said, "I didn't set a red line. The world set a red line."

And the question the world faces, Mr. Obama said, is "Are we going to find a reason not to act? And if that's the case, I think the world community should admit it."

The president repeatedly stressed that the American intelligence community has "high confidence" that the chemical weapons attack on August 21 in a suburb of Damascus was perpetrated by the regime, reiterating much of the evidence his administration has presented to Congress and the American people.

As he has before domestic audiences, the president sought to demarcate the debate over Syrian engagement from the prior debate over the war in Iraq, which was attended by faulty claims of weapons of mass destruction.
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War Whore

'We have our plans': Vladimir Putin warns U.S. against Syria military action

Dan Roberts, Spencer Ackerman, Haroon Siddique, and Angelique Chrisafis
Guardian
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:52 UTC
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© Ria Novosti/ReutersVladimir Putin said Russia may approve military operation in Syria if Damascus is proven to have carried out chemical weapons attacks and UN authorises it.
Russian president says it is too early to say what Russia will do but does not exclude supporting a UN resolution

Vladimir Putin has warned the US against launching military action in Syria, stating that Russia has "plans" on how it would react if such a scenario unfolded.

The Russian president's comments came as Barack Obama for the first time portrayed his plans for US military action as part of a broader strategy to topple Bashar al-Assad, as the White House's campaign to win over sceptics in Congress gained momentum.

In an interview with Associated Press and Russia's state Channel 1 television, Putin said it was too early to talk about what Russia would do if the US attacked Syria but added: "We have our ideas about what we will do and how we will do it in case the situation develops toward the use of force or otherwise. We have our plans."

At the same time he said Russia did not exclude supporting a UN resolution on punitive military strikes if it were proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people. But he described the idea that Syrian government forces would use chemical weapons at a time when he said they were in the ascendancy and knowing the potential repercussions as absurd. Given his comments, and the fact that Russia has protected Syria from punitive action at the UN security council before, his suggestion that Russia might support a resolution on strikes is unlikely to be given much credence in the US.
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Mexican President: NSA spying illegal, demands investigation


CBS DC
Wed, 04 Sep 2013 00:00 UTC
Mexico President Pena Nieto
© JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty ImagesCurrent President Peña Nieto
Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto says reported surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency would constitute an illegal act.

Pena Nieto demanded the United States investigate the allegations aired in a report Sunday night on Brazil's Globo TV.

The report cites 2012 documents from NSA leaker Edward Snowden indicating the U.S. monitored Pena Nieto's communications before he was elected in July 2012.

Pena Nieto spoke to reporters Monday at Canada's Gander International Airport in Newfoundland on a stopover during his trip to Russia for a G-20 summit.

Pena Nieto said that "if proved ... it is an act outside the law." He said he may discuss the issue with President Barack Obama at the summit.
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