His nonsense about respecting those that disagree with him is just that, nonsense. He was seething because he got caught trying to short sheet the POW investigations.
The horror stories never end for that era. A few years back, even before the Kerry campaign, I took to reading through old FBI files on their website. One set of files was the pows/mias. I couldn’t believe what these poor families were put through by our local communist groups in the late 1960s and 1970s. There were some real tear-jerker stories in there. The McCain/Kerry thing was just icing on the cake.