This was on BBC news where they interviewed the chap in question. McCain was shot down and by all accounts given a bit of a kicking by the soldiers who captured him. The Vietnamese authorities patched him up and stuck him in the Hanoi Hilton. They had footage of him doing the name rank and number thing in his hospital bed with the chap interviewed asking the questions.
His rationale for saying he thought McCain was a good man and would make a good President was because of the work McCain has done in bringing Vietnam and the US together in recent years and not, as far as one could see, because he got shot down and captured. Nor did it appear to be an attempt to spoil McCain's pitch but rather a genuine opinion based on S. E. Asian political issues.
I concede this is not as much fun as the thread title though.
sorry.
