when I first read Schanberg's various allegations about this situation, last year, esp on Kerry's role, it has stunned me that no one, not even the Swift Boat vets, brought this subject up during the campaign [read his two articles on this subject at the Village Voice]
esp since Schanberg is a Pullitizer prize winning liberal journalist who is no Bush lover
esp since Kerry's role as Chairman of the Committee on POW/MIA Affairs was his only leadership in his whole Senate career and from what Schanberg alleges, Kerry either was wholly incompetent or he was purposely participating in a cover and rush to normalize relations with Vietnam
Schanberg, a veteran war correspondent from the Vietnam War, in fact was very pleased that Kerry was appointed, he thought Kerry, being a vet, would leave no stone unturned in making sure all the POWs were accounted for etc......and he was bitterly disappointed......
one of the most shocking allegations by Schanberg is that Kerry staff was caught by CIA agents shredding confidential information, and when they were told to stopped, they were smug and continued on.......
now I don't think Schanberg brings this up but the familes
of the POWS and MIA Affairs say the reason Kerry was in a rush was because his cousin's company, the cousin being a Forbes, was in line for $900 million dollars of reconstruction work in Vietnam (no doubt brokered by VC loving Kerry in the first place) and construction couldn't start until normalization began
to me that alone should have totally scuttled Kerry, esp given his phoney reporting to duty convention speech but we got the MSM droning on and on about Bush cutting out early on his reserve duty??????????????????????????????????????
the only reason I can think is that some other Republicans, like John Ashcroft, were also involved in this Committee so are the Republicans afraid to bring up this subject matter......
It's a M.A.D. little world in Washington D.C.
More from the "No Bush lover Schanberg:
"On the plus side, increasing numbers of Americans—Republicans as well as Democrats, judging from opinion polls and other signposts—are coming to realize that the administration of George W. Bush, albeit with his smile and aw-shucks, down-home demeanor, has constructed an imperial and extremist presidency this country has not seen the likes of before. Secrecy and disinformation rule, all of it crafted to push through an ideological agenda. Average voters, for example, now understand that this White House, on a regular basis, lies to the citizenry—as it did to rush the country into the Iraq war with neither an honest premise nor proper planning or preparation."
http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0519,schanberg,63825,6.html
Schanberg blames the atrocities of Pol Pot on the American bombing campaign. We drove them to it, donchaknow.