How do we know McCain refused to be released from the POW camp

[Rex_Goodheart]

before others were released, except that McCain said so?

Is there collaboration somewhere? Just curious.

[LittleClarkie]

1. No interest at all in swiftboating the guy

Sorry

[Rex_Goodheart]

2. Wouldn't want you to.

[msongs]

3. he was good at wrecking US aircraft, with NVN help only Once nt

[Rex_Goodheart]

4. Yeah, well, that doesn't answer my question.

[still_one]

5. does this have anything to do with his voting record?

or why he voted against the GI bill, his position on Iraq, his position on healthcare, medicare, social security, supreme court justices, jobs being offshored, the high price of gas and food, etc. etc. etc.

Isn't that what counts?

[Rex_Goodheart]

8. It's not about McCain...

It's about the people who attacked Kerry but now so easily employ the McCain affair.

[still_one]

13. I suspect that mccain will also have his own swift boaters via ted sampling

but I appreciate your point, sorry I didn't catch it initially, thanks for the clarification

[marylanddem]

6. I would not believe a word that comes out of his mouth

So I agree with you there's every reason to be skeptical about his experiences as a POW.

[Jane Austin]

7. I heard on a radio show - can't rember which one, except that I don't

listen to any RW radio - that anyone who left early would be finished.

Their military career would be over, and any future in politics would be no-go, beause no soldier leaves his buddies behind.

Whoever I was listening to had been a POW himself and he laughed at the thought. Said no one would do that because they'd be treated as a traitor back home.

I guess McCain is counting on most people not knowing about that tradition.

[bbinacan]

9. Don't know if this sufficiently

answers your accusation.

"McCain's account was corroborated by a cable from Averell Harriman, who was President Johnson's envoy to the Paris peace talks. Harriman had tea with a Vietnamese official, who mentioned that McCain had refused early release."

http://www.azcentral.com/news/specials/mccain/articles/0301mccainbio-chapter3.html

[Rex_Goodheart]

11. Thank you very much

[bbinacan]

12. Anytime. n/t

[AZ Criminal JD]

10. There is collaboration all over the place but I'm not doing your work.

But:1) if he hadn't refused then we would have been released and he wasn't;
2) all the POWs who were with him there are supporting him so that is some sort of answer;
3) It was after that point the torture started.

[Skittles]

14. don't go there

that's freeperish....and I think you mean corroboration ?