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To: meandog

Since you are completely ill-informed it’s no surprise you are a McCain follower. ‘Nuff said.

You also need to learn Spanish. “La” is the feminine gender.


54 posted on 01/15/2008 12:38:55 PM PST by La Enchiladita (Psalm 27)
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To: La Enchiladita
You also need to learn Spanish. “La” is the feminine gender.

Well, pardon me, Maam but if you're still claiming that McCain performed acts of treason against his fellow POW and collaborated with the enemy of the United States while held captive then you're still a liar (or at the very least a gullible believer in slanderous and malicious falsehoods widely reported on the internet.)
Most of these falsehoods are being spread by far-right fringe kook nutjobs such as Ted Sampley, Devvy Kid and Thomas Burch whom claim our POWs from Vietnam are still alive and being tortured every day just for the fun of it by the "those slant-eyed gooks." Most of the images of POWs still held in captivity were exacerbated by the Hollywood creations that Chuck Norris made famous. But adding to the belief in the falsehoods is this great tool of cyberspace, where people such as yourself can post anything they want without fear of a test of truth.
About 10 or 15 years ago (at my age I'm having trouble remembering) I met a Navy chief petty officer, a corpsman, who had volunteered to help one of the first missions to Vietnam to recover POW/MIA remains. The mission was a successful one as many bone fragments that could be DNA tested, dogtags and other items were recovered. Those efforts were due in part because work people like Sen. McCain had done in opening relations with the former enemy nation. And many of the families of those dead heroes were grateful for his efforts. The kooks, though, will never be satisfied.
Though I was not there long in 1967 (leaving in November of that year), Vietnam has special painful memories for me as I learned of a close friend killed in action when I returned to America. Like me, he had been an 19-year-old college flunk-out who joined the Navy because he didn't want to be drafted in the Army. Neither of us had experienced real combat, only a couple of mild rocket attacks on the other side of the Naval Support Activity DaNang. Only I made it out before Tet occurred, he didn't. That same year I left Vietnam, McCain was shot down and remained there until the war's end.

But, before you go believing the lies whether he is purposely keeping the truth about other POWs still held in captivity as you posted and others continually allege, ask yourself WHY the nation of Vietnam would be interested in still keeping them.
What possible reason would it have after 35 years? War trophies? Experimentation? Or just for the fun of beating soldiers of a former enemy?
I just recently returned from China where I witnessed a scary and booming economy and world superpower. Vietnam wants to be a part of that economy, perhaps to operate as China does as CINOs (Communists In Name Only). I do not believe it would risk that opportunity by holding on to POWs.

77 posted on 01/15/2008 3:57:25 PM PST by meandog (I'm one of the FEW and the BRAVE FReepers still supporting John McCain)
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