John McCain plays games on his phone while colleagues debate bombing Syria

Maybe he was getting in a bit of tactical practise by playing Angry Birds?

He was tortured when captured, maybe this has something to do with the way he looks and speaks, he was also shot down over Hanoi on bombing mission

Just read this too paddy. Seems like he went through the mill.

In August 1968, a program of severe torture began on McCain.[45] He was subjected to rope bindings and repeated beatings every two hours, at the same time as he was suffering from dysentery.[33][45] Further injuries led to the beginning of a suicide attempt, stopped by guards.[33] Eventually, McCain made an anti-American propaganda "confession".[33] He has always felt that his statement was dishonorable, but as he later wrote, "I had learned what we all learned over there: Every man has his breaking point. I had reached mine."[46][47] Many American POWs were tortured and maltreated in order to extract "confessions" and propaganda statements;[48] virtually all of them eventually yielded something to their captors.[49] McCain subsequently received two to three beatings weekly because of his continued refusal to sign additional statements.[50]

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