McCain should be more supportive of Bergdahl  Arizona Sen. John
McCain broke under torture and gave the North Vietnamese a taped
confession, broadcast over the camp loudspeakers and soon
afterward on world news stations, saying he was a war criminal
who had, among other acts, bombed a school. Many fellow
prisoners were not freed but instead died from ongoing torture
by the North Vietnamese. After being freed and arriving back in
the U.S., he said he felt badly throughout his 51/2 years of
captivity because he knew he was being treated more leniently
than his fellow POWs owing to his propaganda value as the son of
Adm. John S. McCain II, who was then the commander in chief of
all U.S. forces in the Pacific region, including Vietnam. His
Vietnamese captors considered him a valuable propaganda source
nicknaming him the "Crown Prince."  Since his return he has been
a longtime opponent to releasing documents and information about
American prisoners of war in Vietnam and the missing in action
who have still not bee