the answer would be.. THOSE AREN'T HIS WORDS.. those were manufactured to be used as propaganda.. and again, it's still working!!
Besides, the NVA didn't have the internet, where would they get the information about our Chain of Command and who was giving orders to whom?
Oh - My - Lord! The NV came up with a brilliant scheme with this Cuban doctor to make-up all these statements from McCain. And the picture of McCain sitting in the office that he supposedly never went to... oh yeah, the NV made up a fake office in his cell at the HH... yeah, that's what happened.
There truly are none so blind...
Did you read the transcript? It reads:
Barral: "What led you to join the U.S. Navy?"
McCain: "Mainly for a family reason, since I have many relatives in that branch of service. In particular, my grandfather was outstanding in World War II; he was one of those who made the Japanese sign the act of surrender, and a Naval destroyer bears his name. And my father is also an admiral; he is chief of the Pacific Command of the U.S. Armed Forces. Actually, it is a matter of military tradition. One of my forebears was a
colonel in Washington's independence forces. Another was a general in the war of secession. Thus it was natural for me to follow a military career. Of course my father was not always an admiral; during World War II he was commander of a submarine. He has been in the navy since 1927 and has been an admiral since 1965. He holds the highest rank in the navy. If I had not been downed, I would have become an admiral at an earlier age than my father. Theoretically, General Abrams is his subordinate...."
Barral: "Theoretically?"
McCain: "Yes, although in practice, because of the importance of this war, Gen Creighton Abrams receives his orders directly from Washington."
Barral: "I do not understand this about "in theory and practice." I thought that in military life everything is standardized in an inflexible manner...."
McCain: "Well, look, in fact Abrams is his subordinate but since the Tet offensive of 1968, in view of the gravity of the situation, Abrams, instead of asking for instructions from my father, who is in Honolulu, so that he in turn would ask for them from Washington, went directly to Washington for them because the war is here in Vietnam and my father also has Okinawa, Korea, and so forth under his command. That is why, since the war is so important, he receives his instructions directly from Washington. It is a political problem also, not only military."
So... do you really think that in 1967, the NVs knew all about McCain's history? Note that McCain refers to one of his ancestors as "a general in the war of secession" and not The Civil War. McCain's family were plantation owners in Mississippi, so he wouldn't have seen the war as The Civil War but as the southern War of Secession. Do you really think the NVs were savvy enough about the North and South to know that McCain would refer to the war by it's southern title? And what's with the bragging? "If I had not been downed, I would have become an admiral at an earlier age than my father." Say what??? The guy barely got through the USNA, had a poor record as a pilot... WTF made him think he would make admirial faster than his Dad? Or, was he just trying to play up his own importance?