Vietnamese tell international press that POW McCain was “singled out for softer treatment!”
Senator John McCain embraces Communist party official Phung Van Chung in his trips to Viet Nam
A former Vietnamese Communist Party official is claiming Sen. John McCain was “quickly singled out for softer treatment” as a POW because “he was the son of an American admiral. Phung Van Chung, 70, who was a Communist Party official at the time McCain was captured said “top” Vietnamese leaders wanted to use McCain “for negotiations.” Chung also said McCain is refusing “to acknowledge” the heroism of Mai Van On, a Vietnamese peasant who the Vietnamese say swam out during the bombing raid and rescued McCain from drowning. McCain’s refusal to publicly recognize Mai Van On for saving “his life” has some in the media speculating that McCain is afraid that to do so would “fuel other, more damaging allegations that McCain exaggerated elements of his PoW ordeal in Hoa Lo prison.
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Is there any real doubt that McCain has over-stated, ok, lied about how he was treated in Hoa Lo? His nick name was “Songbird” and if he had not be the son of an admiral he would have been subject to a General Courts Martial for his cooperation with the NVA.