Posted on 03/05/2010 1:05:46 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Every thinking conservative on this board knows that each anti-McCain post you make on Free Republic is designed to discredit Sarah Palin by virtue of her endorsement of him in the Arizona Republican primary.
You're a libertarian, anti-conservative traull.
And you're as transparent as they come.
Your numbers are almost exactly what the deal was and where the POW’s were.
Ditto, ditto, and ditto.
Ross Perot was all over this.
Let’s say some POW’s were left behind and the US knew about it. What I find interesting is the article appears to to indict the gov’t [and McCain] for not going public about the POW status, while not answering some begged questions: why? Perhaps keeping quiet was the best of unattractive alternatives?
If news was released, would it have driven up the ‘price’ for the captives to a level that couldn’t be paid? Would it have encouraged more hostile gov’ts to hold US citizens for ransom, a la Iran hostage situation? [thanks Carter] Would global political pressure for not returning the POW’s after the war pressured Laos to simply kill them to ‘hide’ the evidence that they held on to captives?
So you see, to me, even if the ‘cover up’ is true, there are far more questions than answers. It is inconceivable that a man who decided to stay longer than needed and offered fellow prisoners signs of encouragement to help keep up their spirits, does a ‘cover up’ POW’s for fun or vanity. Therefore, I think it reasonable to suspect there were mitigating circumstances that remain unknown and perhaps will remain so.
The content of this article is part of his Senate record. McCain was part of POW/MIA committee in the early 1990s that shut down investigations.
Really? I didn't realize that Sarah Palin needed my help in discrediting herself as just another politician, considering she's doing a damn fine job all by herself.
I'll take your "question" as a compliment, coming from a RINO Party hack such as yourself.
Your anti-Palin mindrot is laughable.
Sarah isn't discrediting herself, and you aren't discrediting her. You're just another transparent anti-conservative Democrat enabler...FR has seen you in hundreds of guises. You're nothing but a joke.
Actually, yes, she is, by endorsing and campaigning for McCain, who has a long and sordid history of reaching across the aisle to "enable" his fellow progressives in the Rat Party.
Her PAC's gifts to fellow RINOs Graham, Hatch, and Murkowski only adds fuel to the fire.
“How can JD sum this up in an ad?”
Unless he has a boatload of hurt family members etc. calling for one, he shouldn’t.
But I’ll add it to the Hayworth ping list with a cautionary footnote. FRegards ....
Hayworth vs. McCain — Primary Headline Roundup
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2456305/posts?page=105
I’m not convinced this is true yet. But here’s a little inside history during the 2008 race.
It’s not just The Nation that has been reporting this. It’s been out there for a long time. One anonymous FRiend and I tag-teamed in support of McCain against Obama and sat on McCain POW exposes.
If McCain won the race, we both agreed to look into it more seriously and possibly consider an impeachment movement against him. But we knew that for all of McCain’s faults — even if this were true, he would still have been less treasonous than Obama [marginally].
WE NEED TO STOP CROSSOVER VOTES IN PRIMARIES. IT’S PERVERSE!
mk-—agree with your points wholeheartedly.
rabs—I appreciate you posting this and taking the inevitable slings and arrows. The truth is that McCain and Kerry did cover-up what happended to the POW/MIAs.
I expected as much from the traitor Kerry.
I never expected it from a former POW like McCain.
Everyone has attacked the source of the article—but no one has disproved the allegations of fact in the article.
Sorry everyone is crapping on you, rabs. Some people can;t handle the truth.
We left behind hundreds of men in Vetnam, Laos, Cambodia. Not phantoms—real live men, some of our best and brightest.
Here’s a reality check:
After 6 years of torture, would you hug your tormentor, a man who torutred you and many of your friends, some to the point of death.
Well, McCain did.
Ironically, JD Hayworth had been endorsing McCain longer than Sarah has known McCain.
If the Nation said the sun sets in the west, I’d doubt it.
This story has been around and was only talked about by Viet Nam vets at least since before Kerry ran for president. This didn’t just materialize to stop McCain from winning in ‘08. This story has been around for years.
My source for this story was Viet Nam Veterans Against John Kerry. I read about it in 2004. I also seem to remember reading about it earlier on Newsmax.com, back when I read Newsmax. I think they used a former North Vietnamese Colonel as a source for some of the information.
I guess you never heard of staged photos for propaganda purposes.
Not saying anything one way or the other reference McCain, but come on, those types of photos were staged all the time, using all sorts of POWs as stage props.
Oh yeah, I believe the Bush campaign used this against McCain in South Carolina in 1999. They’re probably just anti-conservative communists.
Seriously, some of the people around here are just as deluded in their way as the whackos that infest DU.
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