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McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:12 pm
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:12 pm
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John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home.
Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small.
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn’t return home.
Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.
Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain’s role in it. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn’t talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
The sum of the secrets McCain has sought to hide is not small.
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Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:18 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:22 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
This is one area that I don't fault McCain on.
Do you think that families should know all of the gruesome details?
It's hard to know about really bad things,and not be able to do a damn thing about it.
Sometimes it's better,if you don't know everything.
Do you think that families should know all of the gruesome details?
It's hard to know about really bad things,and not be able to do a damn thing about it.
Sometimes it's better,if you don't know everything.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:42 pm to auggie
quote:I say leave it up to the families to decide what's best for themselves, not the government.
This is one area that I don't fault McCain on.
Do you think that families should know all of the gruesome details?
It's hard to know about really bad things,and not be able to do a damn thing about it.
Sometimes it's better,if you don't know everything.
Posted on 9/18/17 at 11:48 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Well this is rich. Maybe now he'll support the grant-block bill more vigorously.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 12:56 am to auggie
quote:
Do you think that families should know all of the gruesome details?
If it was my family member, I sure as hell would want to know. Do you think they don't have a right to know that the government of the country their relative died for screwed them over & left them to die? That's cold-hearted.
It's not really surprising that Songbird McCain would try to hide information about POWs that didn't sell out their fellow soldiers. It's also very telling how many liberals support him despite him being a "Republican."
Posted on 9/19/17 at 3:36 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
McCain was a big supporter of normalizing relations with Vietnam after the war. As soon as this normalization was instituted, POWs became a liability to both sides. Vietnam denied they had them and we denied any were left behind. I'll leave it to the reader to decide what happened to them.
There was a former congressman from NC back in the early 90's that travelled to Vietnam and supposedly had proof that POWs were still being held. He appeared on the Chuck Harder radio talk show a number of times.
There was a former congressman from NC back in the early 90's that travelled to Vietnam and supposedly had proof that POWs were still being held. He appeared on the Chuck Harder radio talk show a number of times.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:00 am to chickenpotpie
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Do you think they don't have a right to know that the government of the country their relative died for screwed them over & left them to die?
I wonder sometimes if excessive numbers of kills by friendly fire is a reason that the government does not want us to know "everything".
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:16 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
It's long been known that a large number of EWO/WSOs who were known to survive bailouts never came back.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:45 am to FooManChoo
quote:
I say leave it up to the families to decide what's best for themselves, not the government.
Not the government, until you need them to push your bullshite "morality" on others.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 5:53 am to chickenpotpie
I was talking more about what happened at POW Camps. Tortures,starvation,etc.
What about if your family member actually broke,and colluded with the enemy? It has been known to happen in a few cases. The whole country would know.
Maybe it's just better to remember them all as heroes and leave it at that?
What about if your family member actually broke,and colluded with the enemy? It has been known to happen in a few cases. The whole country would know.
Maybe it's just better to remember them all as heroes and leave it at that?
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:08 am to tigerjoey
quote:He was full of it. We were spending $100m to look for POW's and everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
There was a former congressman from NC back in the early 90's that travelled to Vietnam and supposedly had proof that POWs were still being held. He appeared on the Chuck Harder radio talk show a number of times.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:17 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
The number of Vietnam War organizations that hate McCain is unbelievable bc they know the score.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:33 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Preach
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:33 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
I like people who didn't get caught
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:36 am to auggie
quote:
Do you think that families should know all of the gruesome details?
Like the fact that their government abandoned them? Yes, I do.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:42 am to thelawnwranglers
I like people who didn't bitch out, bone spurs and all.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:46 am to DisplacedBuckeye
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like people who didn't bitch out, bone spurs and all
Did you go?
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:47 am to bencoleman
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Did you go?
Sure.
Posted on 9/19/17 at 6:54 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
McCain is a traitor and this whole thing is all about hiding his actions in vietnam. He doesn't care about anyone but himself.
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