Posted on 01/20/2004 4:51:44 PM PST by Salvation
When Senator John Kerry visited the area of a prison in Southern Vietnam in April, 1992, Vietnamese officials told him that no Americans had ever been held there. Several months later, an American detainee was secretly released by the Vietnamese, who reported that one day prior to the Senator's arrival, he was moved from the prison, and returned two days after the Senator departed.
Although the American detainee wasn't a POW from the war, it proves my point -- THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNIST OFFICIALS ARE PATHOLOGICAL LIARS. Anyone who thinks that the Vietnamese are being truthful and "cooperating" is either a fool or has other motivations.
Resolution of live sighting reports by JTFFA is a moribund joke. The names and locations of all witnesses are given far in advance to the draconian Vietnamese communists, along with all available information in U.S. files. Therefore, witnesses are "prepared" prior to the arrival of JTFFA personnel. Interviews are conducted in the presence of a communist Vietnamese Public Safety representative. ALL WITNESSES ARE SUBJECT TO INTIMIDATION.
I have access to, and will make available for joint viewing, a CINPAC video-tape given to me in confidentiality that was made at the Vietnamese Presidential Palace during Senator John Kerry's December 1992 visit. In his meeting with Vietnamese President Le Duc Anh, Kerry assured him that as with the POW pictures, the U.S. Government won't release anything to the public that would embarrass the communist officials. He also told Anh that in order to get the trade embargo lifted, all Hanoi had to do is show that there was a process for accounting. Was he relaying a message from then President- elect Clinton? Surely, Kerry was de facto setting policy and undermining Clinton's campaign promise that there would have to be a full accounting before he would approve lifting the trade embargo on Vietnam. At the same meeting, Kerry also told Anh that Laotian leaders told him on numerous occasions that they had no information on POWs for Hanoi controlled all the POWs and all information on them. There are about 550 Americans missing in Laos, and of these, approximately 80% of these men are missing in territory that was under the total control of Hanoi.
ANYONE PROCLAIMING THAT THE LAOTIAN GOVERNMENT, NOT HANOI, IS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACCOUNTING FOR THESE MEN IS EITHER EXTREMELY NAIVE, LYING, COVERING FOR HANOI OR A FOOL. The Lao leader's statements relayed by Kerry are corroborated by the attched 1969 CIA document revealing an agreement "between the North Vietnamese Government and the Neo Lao Hak Sat Central Committee whereby all Americans captured in Laos would be sent to North Vietnam..." This document also records a shipment of 27 American POWs from Laos to North Vietnam. Either from the CIA/NAS "Cold Spot," or similar intercept programs, cited in the attached article by Al Santoli, records another transfer in 1973 of "112 USA pilots" from Laos to Sontay, North Vietnam along with "snapshots...names and ages...." There is a plethora of other intelligence information supporting these transfers.
Only NINE POWs captured in Laos were released by Hanoi. According to a 1993 CIA document (reported to have been given to National Security Advisor Anthony Lake by former intelligence officer Barry Toll), 150 American captives were moved to Laos from Vietnam and were offered for ransom. The report, confirmed by a second highly reliable independent source, quotes a high-ranking member of the Lao Polit Buro as stating, "Now is the time to make a deal." At the bottom of the report was written, "Recommend no further action be taken for it is the policy of the U.S. Government not to pay ransom."
Last year, a media feeding frenzy evolved over the surfacing of a Russian military intelligence translation of what was dubbed the "1205" document." The document stated that in 1972, the Vietnamese held as "pawns" 700 more Americans than the 368 they acknowledged, in a "second tier prison system." Pentagon officials and others, with a "mindset to debunk", proclaimed that there was no other evidence to support that allegation. THIS IS A TOTALLY DISHONEST STATEMENT.
Testimony by Michael D. Benge
February 10, 1994
I would love to see that picture.
I grew up in that generation. The guy I had my first crush on was killed in the Vietnam war and too many guys I knew from my small town, defending the world from communism. It was the wimpy dimocrats and guys like Kerry then who didn't let us win that war and they don't deserve to preside over the free country that real heroes fought and died for.
As do the rest of the Democrat presidential candidates. That's why no one should vote for any of them. Abortion transcends religious and party lines. The fundamental purpose of government is to protect the lives of its citizens.
It's the elephant in the living room.
Once in my life I'd like to hear a reporter ask, "your plan for social security is interesting, but I'd like to know why you think that people should have the right to chop unborn babies into little pieces as they kick and squirm."
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