Now, Trang Trong Duyet Says They Are Friends

Former Captor Says He'd Vote for McCain, by MARGIE MASON, on 27 June, 2008 at:
http://news.aol.com/elections/story/_a/former-captor-says-hed-vote-for-mccain/20080627155209990001

Tran Trong Duyet, the Vietnamese jailer who says he held John McCain captive for about five years as a POW and now considers him a friend says he would vote for him.

At the same time, Tran also denies prisoners of war were tortured.

Duyet, 75, grew testy during the interview when repeatedly questioned about torture and why so many other former POWs (Prisoners Of War) say they too were mistreated. He preferred to talk about McCain as an old buddy.

And although they never saw eye-to-eye on the war that killed some 58,000 Americans and up to 3 million Vietnamese, he said they listened to each others' views.

"He's tough, has extreme political views and is very conservative," Duyet said. "He's very loyal to the U.S. military, to his beliefs and to his country. In all of our debates, he never admitted that the war was a mistake."




Soap Box Ravings finds it very interesting that Duyet refers to his interactions with POW (Prisoner Of War) John McCain, pictured above, as debates in which he, Duyet, listened to POW McCain's views.

Debates that regardless of how physical they became towards POW McCain he maintained his loyalty to the U.S. military, to his beliefs and to his country and during these same debates he never admitted that the war was a mistake.