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Article: The Iraq war and former POW John McCain.(PACIFIC PERSPECTIVES)(President of United States )
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- San Diego Business Journal
- Article date:
- April 14, 2008
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Hanoi -- John McCain slept here, though not so well.
For more than five years, he bedded down--and bled, and wept, and hallucinated--in a shared room at the god-awful Hoa Lo Prison.
This was from 1967 until 1973. The downed American pilots amusingly called the place the Hanoi Hilton. The name stuck for decades afterwards.
This seemed a ripe time to visit. It was roughly to coincide with the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
You get a different perspective on that assertion visiting the capital of the last country we ill-advisedly invaded and from which we were unceremoniously expunged.
The main problem in foreign ...