[blau993]

I am no great fan of John McCain the Politician, though I voted for him -- as Jack Aubrey would have said with a grin, "the lesser of two weevils."

But John McCain the POW was another matter. Let's not forget that he was offered an "early out" by the North Vietnamese because of his father. He declined and did hard time until the end. I can think of no reason why he would have covered up or tried to hide any information about POWs not repatriated. I think this article is just a hateful piece of trash.

[lonevoice]

I’m not and never have been a resident of Arizon. But I’ve donated a lot of money to JD Hayworth’s campaign because I detest the mockery McCain has made of the Republican party, and the damage he’s been personally responsible for.

That being said, this article is vile and it’s from a vile source. It does not belong on Free Republic. We are better than this.

[Kimberly GG]

GEEZE rabs...you’re being attacked for your source! Frankly, I’m not familiar with the source, so I could care less who wrote it.... Is there anything in the content that isn’t true or have the McShamnesties just come calling?

[bIlluminati]

The story is 100% true. Had friends in military intell who specifically told me that COng held 1200 POW and the deal was to turn over half now, and half after Congress paid reparations. The Dem Congress welched on its end of the deal.

Obviously, Nixon had no leverage by 1974, but he did not have to go along with it in 1973. The 1992 group that said we had no POWs in 1992 ignored the rescue signals that were visible in 1992 from multiple POWs in Laos who heard that the US was again looking for them.

There were four people on the group to find the POWs in 1992: Sen. John Kerry (did you know he served in Vietnam?), Sen. John McCain (I’ve heard he broke early, but I’d do far worse), Dick Cheney, and Don Rumsfeld.

It ain’t an easy message, but was why I worked my ass off to take down Kerry in 2004 (thank you Swift Boat vets) and why I always ranked McCain dead last, after Ron Paul et. al. as a Presidential candidate. McCain *knew* we had guys left behind, because in his seven years in captivity, he met some of them. Not many; the prisoners in Laos stayed in Laos. I don’t know whether the 420 prisoners in Laos were counted as part of the 600 missing POWs, but my guess is that they were in addition to those 600. So that would leave about a 1000 POWS left.

Plus, a handful of prisoners escaped Indochina over the years. Dead prisoners don’t escape.

Vote JD in the primary. Vote your conscience in November.

[TigersEye]

I’m not familiar with the author but, judging by the comments on the thread, he is such a talented commie he was able to invent bills, attribute their authorship to McCain and get them inserted into the Congressional record. Amazing!

[Chunga]

The Nation?

I wonder if anyone at FR is still convinced you're not a troll?

[saminfl]

From the : New York Times, Feb. 2, 1973] paragraph 6. they mention a classified program called PAVE SPIKE which consisted of listening devices on spikes that were dropped from aircraft.

I know about that time there was an early laser targetting pod called PAVE SPIKE. Would the military really use the same name for two different programs?

[Allegra]

I can’t stand McCain politically, but this article has my BS detector pegging like crazy.

[Paradox]

This is CRAP. Why denigrate the mans service to his country? There is no need for that. What he has done in his Senate career is on the REAL record, lets judge him on that.

[Chunga]

Understand this rabs:

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.

[mkjessup]

Well Rabs, I see you are as always, bringing more members into your fan club, lol - and as usual, those who are automatically slinging sh*t in your direction, fail to recognize that they themselves are employing the Alinsky-style tactics they so roundly condemn in others, i.e., they attack 'The Nation', they attack the author of the article, but they don't attack Lt. General Eugene Tighe, the former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency who stated that there were American POWs still being held by Hanoi.

It doesn't take much more than a room temperature IQ to recognize the inconvenient fact that while McCain was generally on the same page with the Reagan Administration's approach to the old Soviet Union, when it came to Vietnam, McStain did anything and everything to assist his former captors, to provide assistance and funding to those Commie scumbags, and he admitted himself during the '08 campaign that he was 'broken' by torture while a POW, and while that could have happened to anybody, his actions since that time are highly suggestive of someone who has been subtly (and not so subtly) following the wishes and agenda of his former prison keepers, and his own mental instability has been called into question more than a few times.

McCain had no business being in an elective office, let alone President of the United States.

[Tribune7]

If the Nation said the sun sets in the west, I’d doubt it.

[MichiganConservative]

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.

[NY Attitude]

Wasn’t John Kerry involved as well?