There is very little that I can add to this. Below is a first person account of what real torture is and what a real man acts like. The only thing I did was clean up the spelling and formatting. I wish that this article could be mandatory reading for everyone in the current administration, but then again, they'd probably just denigrate this hero as a right wing hate monger or a racist.
Congressional Medal of Honor Recipient Bud Day Speaks of Torture
"I got shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, a Squadron Commander.
After I returned in 1973, I published 2 books that dealt a lot with "real torture" in Hanoi . Our make believe president is branding our country as a bunch of torturers when he has no idea what torture is. As for me, I was put thru a mock execution because I would not respond and pistol whipped on the head. A couple of days later, I was hung by my feet all day. I escaped and a couple of weeks later, got shot and was recaptured.
"Getting shot was OK but what happened afterwards was not. They marched me to Vinh and put me in the rope trick that almost pulled my arms out of the sockets. They beat me on the head with a little wooden rod until my eyes swelled shut and my un-shot, unbroken hand to a pulp. The next day they hung me by the arms, re-broke my right wrist, wiped out the nerves in my arms that control the hands rolling my fingers up into a ball. This only left the slightest movement of my left forefinger. So, I started answering with some incredible lies. They sent me to Hanoi strapped to a barrel of gasoline in the back of a truck. In Hanoi, on my knees ... the rope trick again. I was beaten by a big fool and put into leg irons on a bed in Heartbreak Hotel. Much kneeling … hands up at Zoo. Got a really bad beating for refusing to condemn Lyndon Johnson. Several more kneeling events. I could see my knee bone through kneeling holes.
"There was an escape from the annex to the Zoo. I was the Senior Officer of a large building and because of the escape, they started a mass torture of all commanders. I think it was July 7, 1969 when they started beating me with a car fan belt. In first 2 days I took over 300 strokes, then stopped counting because I never thought I would live through it. They continued day-night torture to get me to confess to a non-existent part in the escape. This went on for at least 3 days. On my knees, getting a fan belting, they cut open my scrotum with fan belt stroke. I opened up both knee holes again. My fanny looked like hamburger and I could not
lie on my back. They tortured me into admitting that I was in on the escape and that my 2 roommates knew about it. The next day I denied the lie. They commenced torturing me again with 3, 6 or 9 strokes of the fan belt every day from about July 11 or 12th to 14 October 1969. I continued to refuse to lie about my roommates again.
"Now, the point of this is that our make-believe president has declared to the world that we (U.S.) are a bunch of torturers. So, it will be OK to torture us the next time when they catch us, because that is what the U.S. does. Our make-believe president is a know nothing fool who thinks that pouring a little water on some one's face or hanging a pair of women's pants over an Arab’s head is TORTURE. He is a meathead.
"I just talked to Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Leo Thorsness, who was also in my squadron, in jail, as was John McCain, and we agree that McCain does not speak for the POW group when he claims that Abu Ghraib was torture or that "water boarding" is torture. Our president and those fools around him who keep bad-mouthing our great country are a disgrace to the United States. Please pass this info on to Sean Hannity. He is free to use it to point out the stupidity of the claims that water boarding, which has no after effect, is torture. If it got the Arab to cough up the story about how he planned the attack on the twin towers in NYC, hurrah for the guy who poured the water."
"Bud" Day
George Everett "Bud" Day(born February 24, 1925) is a retired U.S. Air Force Colonel and Command Pilot who served during the Vietnam War. He is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Think about this article as Obama's Justice Department henchman, Eric Holder, persecutes (that's not a typo) the heroes in the CIA and Special Ops who squeezed terrorist scum for information.
God Bless America.
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