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Sought to follow up on the “wheel chair incident”.

Any of these quoteworthy?

Elliot D. Cohen: POW/MIA Families Alleged McCain Assault: Senate ...
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/contributors/1670

McCain Pushed Women In Wheelchair
http://sensico.wordpress.com/2008/09/07/mccain-pushed-women-in-wheelchair

My Holiday with McCain | Telling Thoughts
http://www.tellingthoughts.com/us-politics/my-holiday-with-mccain
We know he reared back to punch a woman in a wheel-chair. ... Chairman of the National Alliance of Families for POW/MIA

Affairs- see how it ends. Video Title: ‘John McCain brings POW Supporter to tears with his anger’. ...

POW/MIA FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE
http://powermusicinc.com
POW/MIA Family members also contend McCain mistreated, abused, and intimidated them, even pushed aside a little old lady in a wheel chair (Jane Gaylord, ...

Why Is John McCain So Angry And Why Does He Hate The Families Of ...
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/none/why-is-john-mccain-so-angry-and-why-does-he-hate-the-families-of-pow-mias-284286


151 posted on 03/09/2010 11:45:54 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (ONLINE TAX REVOLT 150,000 AND GROWING. http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com)
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Ross Perot and MIAs

H. Ross Perot
http://www.aiipowmia.com/ssc/ssc29.html

In the Fall of 1969, Secretary of the Navy John Warner approached H. Ross Perot to discuss the POW/MIA issue. Perot told Committee investigators that at that time Warner, Perot’s friend, and Warner’s aide (Col. William Leftwich) visited at length about the POW issue. Warner arranged for Perot to talk with Col. Chappie James of the DoD, which in turn led to a meeting with Assistant Secretary of Defense Capen. Eventually, Perot said he talked with Kissinger, who asked him to mount a private effort to assist American prisoners. The objective was to embarrass the North Vietnamese into improving treatment of American prisoners to improve their chance of surviving. Col. Alexander Haig was Perot’s liaison with the NSC, he said.

Perot said he responded vigorously to the White House request, launching a spectacular mission that Christmas. A chartered plane was loaded with carefully designed packages for each prisoner — even for the missing so as to avoid the appearance of having decided their fate, no matter how strong the evidence of death. At the same time, Perot financed a trip to Paris for POW wives and children, where they appealed directly to the Vietnamese mission there.

At home, Perot founded “United We Stand,” a POW/MIA awareness group with chapters in most states, which coordinated a letter campaign to the Vietnamese mission in Paris. Later, Perot learned from returned prisoners that their treatment did improve in direct correlation with his efforts.


Perot vs. McCain regarding MIAs
http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827

While McCain was languishing as a POW ...
“When McCain’s then-wife Carol was in a serious car accident, McCain’s mother called Perot for help. “She asked me to send my people to Philadelphia to take care of the family,” Perot says. Afterwards, McCain was grateful. “We loved him [Perot] for it,” McCain told me in 2000. Perot doesn’t remember it that way. “After he came home, he walked with a limp, she [Carol McCain] walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona [Cindy McCain, his current wife] and the rest is history.” [snip]

But the root of their discord is MIAs. Perot said, “There’s evidence, evidence, evidence. McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs.”


http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1014960.html

Article: Why Perot Was Right About America’s Missing Soldiers

The Washington Post
July 12, 1992 Author:Jonathan Tombes CopyrightCopyright 2009 The Washington Post.

On April 8, 1987, Ross Perot reported on his nine-month special investigation into the POW/MIA issue in a recently disclosed letter to President Reagan. His first finding: “We left POWs behind at the end of the war in Vietnam.” His second finding: “We knew we were leaving men behind.” His third finding: “The men left behind were held in Laos.”

Throughout Perot’s unconventional presidential campaign, the media has frequently pointed to his involvement in the POW/MIA issue as evidence of an “obsessive” and “conspiratorial” mindset. But this characterization increasingly rings hollow.

Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA affairs, said … [snip]

Article: PEROT INSISTS POWS WERE LEFT IN ASIA

Post-Tribune (IN); August 12, 1992 ; 503 words... after the Vietnam War. Perot told the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs he would ... have any videotapes,” Perot acknowledged after being ... conjecture on my part.” Perot laid out to the committee ... White House adviser and POW point man during the ...

Article: PEROT, NIXON AIDES DIFFER ON THEIR ROLE TO FREE ...

Post-Tribune (IN); May 13, 1992 ; 537 words... with helping POWs and contacted the ... Butterfield, ordered Perot to “goddam stop ... believes his entire POW venture was for ... administration believed Perot’s POW efforts had “no ... to questions, Perot steadfastly insisted ... for his work on POWs by the Nixon administration ...

Article: Perot’s POW-MIA efforts: ties that bind his ...

The Boston Globe; October 11, 1992 ; Chris Black, Globe Staff; 700+ words... this year, many former POWs and other veterans have ... of the key figures in Perot’s unorthodox campaign ... spokesman, are former POWs. And veterans have been ... successful drive to get Perot’s name on the ballot ... years the Navy’s senior POW held by North Vietnam ...

Article: `We Left People Behind,’ Perot Tells POW Panel; ...

The Washington Post; August 12, 1992 ; Michael Isikoff; 700+ words... pointing at Bush, Perot repeatedly claimed ... played games” with the POW issue. “I don ... about the facts,” Perot said in his first ... unidentified U.S. POWs” and urged that the ... released documents nor Perot shed any light on ... have to resolve the POW mystery. He offered ...

Article: Despite Vast U.S. Hunt, Perot Says POWs Held; ...

The Washington Post; June 21, 1992 ; Bob Woodward; John Mintz; 697 words... including pressure brought by Perot - U.S. intelligence ... the definition for the POW-MIA issue. In practical ... personnel assigned to the POW-MIA question were tripled ... was set up that included Perot. Retired Lt. Gen. Leonard ... at first thought to be POWs playing volleyball, but ...

Article: Perot says he thinks POWs are still held in ...

The Boston Globe; June 25, 1992 ; Scot Lehigh, GLOBE STAFF; 536 words... possible remaining POWS, a longtime concern of Perot, he began a lengthy ... captivity in Laos. Perot said that prior to ... Vietnam War of the POWs held by the North Vietnamese ... colleagues ruled it out. Perot said all the POWs who came home after ...

Article: PEROT BALKS AT TESTIFYING ON POWS.(Main)

Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); June 19, 1992 ; 408 words... Kerry said Thursday that Ross Perot still refuses to testify before his POW/MIA Affairs Committee ... independent presidential candidate. Perot, who has pursued leads on ... premature to consider subpoenaing Perot, as one POW/MIA families group urged ...

Article: Perot assails Bush on POW-MIA effort Tells senators ...

The Boston Globe; August 12, 1992 ; John Aloysius Farrell, Globe Staff; 700+ words... conspiracy theorist. Perot’s testimony before the Select Committee on POW-MIA Affairs was ... as an eccentric. Perot said he would not serve Bush in any future POW missions. “I’m ... folksy populism, Perot described his 23-year involvement in the POW issue and conveyed ...


152 posted on 03/09/2010 12:11:37 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (ONLINE TAX REVOLT 150,000 AND GROWING. http://www.onlinetaxrevolt.com)
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