Fidel Castro, John McCain spar over Cuban Torture in Vietnam

Fidel Castro, John McCain spar over Cuban Torture in Vietnam

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro took on front-running U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain on Monday, accusing him of lying about Cubans torturing American prisoners of war in Vietnam.

At a campaign stop in Miami last month, the Arizona senator told anti-Castro exiles that American POWs held with him in Hanoi were tortured by "a couple of Cubans."

"His accusation against the Cuban revolutionaries ... are completely unethical," Castro wrote in an article published by the ruling Communist Party newspaper Granma.

"The commandments of the religion you practice prohibit lying," he said of McCain, who was raised an Episcopalian and calls himself a Christian.

McCain, a Navy pilot when he was shot down over North Vietnam in 1967, says he was tortured by his Vietnamese captors over more than five years in captivity. Cuba and North Vietnam were Cold War allies of the Soviet Union at the time.

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Well, I would guess that McInsane knows a little better than Fidel who tortured him, as he was there.

Although if I was McCain, I don't know that I would be screaming too loudly about the torture issues of other countries right now, in light of our own administrations guilt of toturing in recent times.

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