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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Elana Schor

Should a POW be president?

John McCain's campaign has invoked his five-year imprisonment in the infamous "Hanoi Hilton" as a catch-all response to all number of stories, from his multiple house-ownership to allegations that he bent the rules at last month's evangelical forum.

But one of McCain's fellow Vietnam POWs is raising doubts today about the Republican nominee's emotional fitness to be president. Dr Philip Butler, another soldier held at the Hanoi Hilton, told Brave New Pac: "I think I can say with authority that the POW experience is not a good prerequisite for president of the United States." Check out Butler's interview below -- is this the beginning of an anti-POW backlash?

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