John McCain’s ‘knife-wielding captor’
p2pnet news view Off Topic | Politics:- “McCain’s Knife-Wielding Captor Leads Vietnam in Rooting for Him.”
Sorry. Couldn’t resist this headline to a Bloomberg News story, which goes on »»»
Le Van Lua, the first North Vietnamese that Lieutenant Commander John McCain encountered in 1967, says he greeted the American aviator with the biggest kitchen knife he could find. He’d like to welcome McCain back as president of the United States.
He isn’t alone. Former prisoner of war McCain has some unlikely supporters in Vietnam, a country he bombed 23 times. Like Le, many Vietnamese are cheering for the self-confessed ‘air pirate,’ absolving McCain-the-bomber and embracing the senator who pushed to normalize diplomatic relations with Vietnam in 1995.
“They love the man who looks to the future,” said Nguyen Dai Phuong, an editor at Tien Phong, a Hanoi daily. “They don’t love the pilot who came to kill their family.”
But, “Still, some older Vietnamese hold grudges against the American pilots,” the story has said Phuong saying.
“They join with another group, where Obama has strong support, he said. “The young people, especially the ladies, prefer Obama.”
The story makes interesting reading.
Will Stephen Harper’s people be able to come up with anything like it if and when there’s a fall election?
No need to stay tuned 
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.Stumble It!
Bloomberg News – McCain’s Knife-Wielding Captor Leads Vietnam in Rooting for Him, August 20, 2008
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