NOTE: This story was sourced back in 2013 from a website Vietnam Veterans Against John Mccain which is no longer there. However, the video still is available on youtube and added to this story
Did the Vietnamese really call him ‘Songbird McCain’ because he’d give them so much information?
He was a Vietnam POW, but he’s been the subject of quite a few damning articles by other vets. Check out the link I’ve provided below. He famously voted against a bill that was otherwise unanimously passed that would have fostered transparency in the records of what happened over there – and possibly brought a lot of other POWs home – because apparently those records would have confirmed this story.
The severely wounded McCain was thrown on the back of a truck and hauled to theinfamous Hanoi Hilton prison camp. Immediately, his captors began to interrogate him using sadistic methods they had perfected on hundreds of captured U.S. servicemen before him.
His interrogators demanded military information. When he refused, his guards kicked and pounded him mercilessly.
McCain admits that three to four days after he was captured, he promised the Vietnamese, “I’ll give you military information if you will take me to the hospital.”
McCain also admits that the Vietnamese rushed him to a hospital, but denies he was given “special medical treatment” because of his promise.
He claims he was given medical care normally unavailable to captured Americans only because the Vietnamese learned he was the son of Admiral John S. McCain, Jr., the soon-to-be commander of all U.S. forces in the Pacific including those fighting in Vietnam.
The Vietnamese figured that because POW McCain’s father was of such high military rank that he was of royalty or the governing circle in the United States. Thereafter the communist bragged that they had captured “the crown prince”and treated him as a “special prisoner.”
Less than two weeks after McCain was taken to a hospital, Hanoi’s press began quoting him giving specific militaryinformation, including the name of the aircraft carrier on which he was based, numbers of U.S. pilots that had been lost, the number of aircraft in his flight,information about location of rescue ships and the order of which his attack was supposed to take place.
There is also evidence that McCain received “special” medical treatment from a Soviet physician.
After he was out of the hospital, McCain continued cooperating with the North Vietnamese for a period of three years. He made radio broadcasts for the communists and met with foreign delegations, including the Cubans. He was interviewed by at least two North Vietnamese generals one of whom was Vietnam’s national hero, General Vo Nguyen Giap.
On June 4, 1969, a U.S. wire service story headlined “PW Songbird Is Pilot Son of Admiral,” reported one of McCain’s radio broadcasts: “Hanoi has aired a broadcast in which the pilot son of the United States commander in the Pacific, Adm. John McCain, purportedly admits to having bombed civilian targets in North Vietnam and praises medical treatment he has received since being taken prisoner.
“The broadcast was beamed to American servicemen in South Vietnam as a part of a propaganda series attempting to counter charges by U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird that American prisoners are being mistreated in North Vietnam.”
He’s “their guy” from Arizona. Well, that’s what our Masters program into the voting machines and then, “It’s all perfectly legal”. John McCain has been a traitor since the day he was captured and held at the “Hanoi Hilton”.
HE WAS A TRAITOR BRFORE THAT. THAT KIND OF BUZZARDRY HAS TO BE LEARNED FROM SOMEONE
top of the list with hillary, jeb, pelosi, limp wrist grahm, trump and on and on.
I do not understand why all this didn’t come up much during the Presidential race.
He’s a traitor’s traitor if there was ever one! He got BO elected!