"Senator (Kerry) Covered Up Evidence of P.O.W.'s Left Behind"

Village Voice ^ | February 24th , 2004 | Sidney Schanberg

[Jan Hus]

"Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

In the end, the fact that Senator Kerry covered up crucial evidence as committee chairman didn't seem to bother too many Massachusetts voters when he came up for re-election—or the recent voters in primary states. So I wouldn't predict it will be much of an issue in the presidential election come November. It seems there is no constituency in America for missing Vietnam P.O.W.'s except for their families and some veterans of that war.

A year after he issued the committee report, on the night of January 26, 1994, Kerry was on the Senate floor pushing through a resolution calling on President Clinton to lift the 19-year-old trade embargo against Vietnam. In the debate, Kerry belittled the opposition, saying that those who still believed in abandoned P.O.W.'s were perpetrating a hoax. "This process," he declaimed, "has been led by a certain number of charlatans and exploiters, and we should not allow fiction to cloud what we are trying to do here."

Kerry's resolution passed, by a vote of 62 to 38. Sadly for him, the passage of ten thousand resolutions cannot make up for wants in a man's character.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs."

[Jan Hus]

This article was written by a Liberal who is no friend of the President.I wonder why the Republicans are wimping out on exposing "Skunk Kerry" on this issue

[Travis McGee]

BTTT!

[dirtboy]

I wonder why the Republicans are wimping out on exposing "Skunk Kerry" on this issue

Why bother when the left-wing media is willing to carry the water for them? It's rather difficult for the Kerry camp to claim that a broadside from the Village Voice is the work of Republican attack dogs.

[cmsgop]

Hmmmm, That Interesting......

[pointsal]

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[man of Yosemite]

It would be awful if he knowingly left men behind, but to this day, I've yet to see anyone prove that theory. I'm still waiting to see someone prove that some guys didn't come home. When I was stationed on Okinawa, a Japanese army soldier walked out of the jungle in Guam, having hid for decades. This still has not occured in regards to American troops. People have talked about it and even made movies about it, still I don't see any proof.

[laconic]

Someone needs to post the item about Kerry's cousin who got the major contract for work in Hanoi shortly after this. Of course, Dick Cheney doesn't come out smelling like a rose in this, but then again, he never has in my view.

[John Thornton]

This article disappeared without a trace. Do a google news search and you will see that almost no other newspapers picked it up. Despite the fact that it was written by a left wing writer with actual Viet Nam experience. But, there is no liberal bias in the media....

[JoJo Gunn]

You'll find this interesting.

[drq]

Check this site out

POW/MIA Family Members Against John Kerry

[B4Ranch]

Senator John McCain is standing right beside Kerry with a bulldozer! Fix the picture.