Posted on 09/24/2008 4:49:06 AM PDT by DJ Taylor
McCain was not Chairman of the committee. He was not co-Chairman. He was a committee member along with every Vietnam vet in the Senate, save for Al Gore. It was not the first investigation into the POWS or even the second. It was the third and it happened 20 years after the war.
There was NO credible evidence that there were surviving POWs anywhere in SEA. There were rumors and outright lies from people who stood to gain from the frenzy. The committee chased thousands of these leads and found nothing. The report of the Select Committee is available online. It is a very balanced and fair assessment of the POW issue and worth a read.
Ted Sampley.
Well, if this had any legs, soon we’d see a group of POW’s coming out against McCain....
Ping me when that happens.
As far as the hearings, John McCain, IMHO, was adamant that this country wouldn’t leave them behind. It wouldn’t fit in with his ideology of honor and duty.
“Guys, keep in mind that FR was asking these same questions too. I remember the McCain threads on 2000 asking questions about his POW status and criticizing his military service. So don’t act all trifled over this.”
And this was a much more frequently heard topic from the early to mid-’90s. There is just nothing new here, and those items mentioned in “The Nation” were being mentioned during the early ‘90s.
But I do wonder how many of the dismissive posters actually watched the hearings in 1992-1993.
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