http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080915/pow_video


Doctor Phillip Butler is a 1961 graduate of the United States Naval
Academy and a former light-attack carrier pilot. In 1965 he was shot
down over North Vietnam where he spent eight years as a prisoner of
war.
After his repatriation in 1973 he earned a Ph.D. in sociology from
the University of California at San Diego and became a Navy
Organizational Effectiveness consultant. He completed his Navy career
in 1981 as a professor of management at the Naval Postgraduate School
in Monterey, California.


John McCain has been exploiting his prisoner of war experience every
chance he gets. He has used this story to justify everything from not
knowing how many homes he has to his healthcare plan to his marital
infidelities to his taste in music. The McCain campaign is even using
his POW story in paid ads. But now a veteran who was a prisoner with
McCain in Vietnam is explaining loud and clear that being a POW does not
qualify McCain to lead our country.