McInsane loses his POW status because he prevented the US from going back to get the other POWs from Vietnam as he campaigned to give them Most Favored Nation status. He sold out his fellow POWs for money. He did that 15 years after he was all snug and safe in the US as a Senator.
You know what, I take McCain to task for what I know to be problematic about him. Frankly, I don’t like doing it.
I may not be entirely fair, but I didn’t suppress information about him while he was still a POW in LAOS, Cambodia, or Vietnam.
I didn’t promise his family information about him, then neglect to ever let them have it.
John did promise the families of 475 men still missing that the Senate Select committee would release all the information the U. S. government had about them, and then never follow through.
Others on that committee wanted to release all information. McCain fought tooth and nail not to. Other committee members state this.
The public asked the Senate to do a study on POWs / MIAs in Vietnam. One senator fought tooth and nail to prevent the committee from being formed. It took nine months to get that committee operational. That because of one man, John McCain.
So I’m a bad guy for talking about McCain now that he’s home and 40 years have passed, but he’s not a bad guy for fighting the families of the MIA men and veterans groups to get a full accounting of men left behind.
My what makes some people indignant.
People left behind due in large to one man, not a problem.
Criticizing that man who is free today? Oh the humanities.
Spare me.