I mean, really... Vietnam is rooting for McCain?

[gatorboy]

:rofl:

McCain's Knife-Wielding Captor Leads Vietnam in Rooting for Him

Aug. 21 (Bloomberg) -- 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.''

McCain's role as a ``frontrunner'' in the normalization process has convinced Vietnam's ruling class that his White House would increase bilateral trade, which was about $11 billion last year.

[w4rma]

1. Some are, some aren't. Most probably aren't. (nt)

[gatorboy]

2. Yeah, but literally cheering for the man?

"He is Kefitzat Haderech!" :P

[Voltaire99]

3. It's always fun to say, "Hey! I KNOW that air pirate!"

"I took his confession -- forty-nine times! And look at him go, now!"

[gatorboy]

4. !!!

:rofl:

[old mark]

5. Vietnamese factories make

several types of electric guitars, including some for Peavey, under US managed companies. I suppose McCain is responsible for that, indirectly anyway.


mark

[AngryAmish]

6. Kerry and McCain lead the effort to normalize relations with VietNam

[sourmilk]

7. McGrumpy: "I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live."