McCain's Vietnam Captor Speaks: A Conversation With Tran Trong Duyet

In 1967, US presidential candidate John McCain's plane was shot down on a bombing mission over North Vietnam.

BBC reporter Andrew Harding tracked down the man who held him captive in a Hanoi jail for five years.

"McCain is my friend," said 75-year-old Tran Trong Duyet. "If I was American, I would vote for him."

Comments

[Andman0121]

so McCain has about a dozen supporters and one of them is a former Viet Cong torturer? I seriously feel sorry for you conservatives.

[kinnycut]

Well isn't that special, McCain gets an endorsement from someone who once beat the crap out of him on a regular basis.

[MoeJava]

Its like "Back to the Future"...­. at the end of the movie, when McFly had his former bully friend detail his car.......­.

[obamanation31]

Hmmmm! is that a guilty vote?

[markkraft]

John McCain :
Communist tested... Communist approved!

John McCain puts the sleep in "sleeper cell"!

[Gunfighter]

If McClain gets elected, the North Vietnamese win.... Oh.

[qdog112]

OK where's the headline: McCAIN ENDORSED BY COMMUNIST?

[Tommygun264]

That's "SADISTIC COMMUNIST TORTURER", thank you very much.

[PackyJ]

Well, now we know who the Viet Cong endorse for President!

[nowudont]

For president of Vietnam!!

[nowudont]

McCain / Duyet 08!

[Graywolf48]

Of course he'd vote for McCain. As a prisoner McCain was very cooperative and told them whatever he knew and helped them make tapes exposing the running dog imperialist lackeys for what they were. McCain was afforded a private cell and good medical care and helped make his captors public heroes. McCain, the NVA and the Cong, kindred spirits!

[commentguy1234]

Viet Cong War Criminal and Communist endorses John McCain. Further proof that life is not without irony.

[bigdaddyvike]

"He'll be such a great prez-net even his torturers sing his praises!" So if the guy in the black hood in Abu Grahib says that the Captain in charge should be Army Chief of Staff, then so be it.

[Shaddup]

Manchurian Candidate.

[UltraClassic]

Leave it to the HuffPo to dig this up. And what is it suppose to mean anyway except that it gives many halfwitted and nimrod commentors a chance to run their mouths.

[PAposter]

It's from the BBC, HP didn't dig it up. Check it out!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7459946.stm

[JohnTalbutt]

How can he? He just described himself as halfwitted.

[coloradosiren]

Well, no class here

[markkraft]

"And what is it suppose to mean anyway except that it gives many halfwitted and nimrod commentors a chance to run their mouths."

I noticed... Thanks for commenting!

[WIpatriot]

Yours included..­..

[uvymopkq]

Mr Gore, the beaten Democratic candidate in 2000, Mr Gore has added his weight to Mr Obama. Talk about the kiss of death.

[utd]

You been living under a rock or something for the past 8 years? Try reading the news on non-election years too, Gore has come a long way from winning the popular vote and getting trashed by the Supreme Court if that is the big loss you are referring to.

[ReasonIsMyReligion]

Give the guy a break.
He didn't say that until we waterboarded him.