McCain's a proven leader

Since the Gen. Clark gaff on John McCain's being shot down I've been looking up POW's who have served in Vietnam with McCain. HT from RCP McCain's Mettle by Stuart Koehl at the Daily Standard here. He talks about an article by Jim Warner who served with McCain in the Hanoi Hilton and as a domestic policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan.

McCain is like Churchill] who never held a grudge and was prepared to be gracious and magnanimous toward a defeated foe. When McCain led church services, he prayed for the enemy who had tortured him. I have observed Ronald Reagan in the White House and I have observed McCain in the Hanoi Hilton. I have seen that McCain, like Churchill, like Reagan, has courage, prudence, and magnanimity. That is why he is qualified to be president, even if he hadn't ridden in a fighter plane and gotten shot down.

Jim Warner's article can be found here at The Herald-Mail.It is interesting at the bottom is a comment from another POW who served about the same time with John McCain here:

I personally know John McCain and Jim Warner. I was with them in Hanoi. Both are true warriors. The article is well stated and accurate. I was one of those men in the nearby rooms who joined in to sing the songs. The guards called it a riot. We called it patriotism. In 5 years 8 months of incarceration, I never received socks, shoes, medical treatment, a bed, a pencil, pen, paper, reading glasses, let alone a Bible or permission to hold a church service. Our captors were brutal. McCain was strong in his resistance. He was a role model for all of us to admire. I'm proud of him. Captain John M McGrath, USN (Ret), POW in North Vietnam with John McCain

Men who know McCain as a POW and can testify that led his fellow service men.