Somehow the only presidents who get blamed for this are Nixon and Bush.
Weren’t there a few other presidents in between? And could Nixon do anything when they railroaded him out of office with a Watergate scandal that was 99% faked up?
I would place the heaviest blame on the guys who were put in charge of investigating the POW/MIA problem and covered it up instead:
“Tragically, the truth did not come out, thanks, the authors charge, to two of the Committee’s most powerful members, Chairman John Kerry and ex-POW Sen. John McCain. Both, the authors explain, were intent on “ending the war” and normalizing relations with Vietnam. They chose to perpetuate the cover-up rather than expose it.”
John Kerry is John Kerry, and this is pretty much what you could expect of him. But the way John McCain betrayed his fellow POWs has always struck me as the ultimate treason.
There is plenty of blame to go around.
Bottom line, as I previously stated, the Viet Nam war American POW’s & MIA’s should have been fully accounted for after 30 friggin years! And to this date, THEY HAVE NOT!
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Watergate was pretty much on-the-record and on the level. I watched the hearings, and James McCord and John Dean gave as much info was was needed to make the case. I didn't see Ehrlichman's or Haldeman's testimony, but I saw John Mitchell's. They were a pretty sorry crew -- hey, Haldeman and Ehrlichman were advertising executives, what did you expect? The guys who weren't young and callow (Bob Odle, Jeb Stuart Magruder) were unscrupulous, and John Dean was arguably both. And the guys who weren't one of those, were spooks. What a crew.
The only person who looked halfway decent out of that whole bunch was Maureen Dean.
But the way John McCain betrayed his fellow POWs has always struck me as the ultimate treason.
There have been other reports from fellow prisoners of McCain’s
stating, he betrayed his fellow prisoners while being held captives.