Political, McCain coverup

[Bat]

It seems McCain has worked to cover up the facts about how many POWs were left in N. Korea after the Korean War, aiding the party line adopted after Nixon negotiated the return of more than 500 prisoners, then said there were no more being held. There is an awful lot of evidence out there that says that was not true, and the coverup that went with that has been going on for years. Government denial has been going on so long that I'm sure they believe it is true. I don't, and neither do the families of those POWs who were never repatriated.
Check it out...long article, read both pages.

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

[hoops]

that is just pure evil to leave people like they don;t matter.
peace
hoops

[Bat]

He strikes me as a condescending slimeball...something slithery about him.:eek:

[DaveM]

Somehow this does not surprise me. Years ago, I read a book entitled I believe "Misinformation In America", which made a rather good case for the U.S. creating the POW/MIA quasi-religion as a means of 1: covering up the fact that the CIA and other agencies were still running covert operations in Vietnam and surrounding countries, and 2: creating a distraction from the large number of known prisoners from the Korean War who were never accounted for (material which has surfaced since the book indicates that a fair number were sent to China and the Soviet Union for whatever purpose and never returned).

In the case of those listed as Missing In Action in Vietnam, I think it entirely possible that a few Americans were "left behind" when we pulled out of that conflict. Some may have been held prisoner by guerrillas in remote areas, some were shot down or stranded and simply died out in the jungle, and chances are that a few were deserters (a la Robert Garwood, who eventually returned to the U.S. and proved to be the source of the vast majority of intelligence reports from people who claimed to see live Americans in Vietnam after the war had ended). Of those remaining, more than 1,000 (some say 1,200) were in aircraft that crashed over water or were seen to disappear after being struck by a shell, rocket, or what have you. They're only "missing" because there was nothing left to prove what happened to them!

Undoubtedly there are cases just like this from the Korean War as well. But there are also records indicating that prisoners were held--it's not just a matter of rumor. These men have surviving families in most cases....they deserve the same consideration as the families of any other serviceperson. But no one flies the POW/MIA flag for the missing of the Korean War. It's a shame, pure and simple.