Posted on 07/27/2011 6:27:17 PM PDT by dangus
That's not all McCain has been doing the last 30 years.
McCain and the POW Cover-Up The “war hero” candidate buried information about POWs left behind in Vietnam.
An early and critical McCain secrecy move involved 1990 legislation that started in the House of Representatives. A brief and simple document, it was called “the Truth Bill” and would have compelled complete transparency about prisoners and missing men. Its core sentence reads: “[The] head of each department or agency which holds or receives any records and information, including live-sighting reports, which have been correlated or possibly correlated to United States personnel listed as prisoner of war or missing in action from World War II, the Korean conflict and the Vietnam conflict, shall make available to the public all such records held or received by that department or agency.”
Bitterly opposed by the Pentagon (and thus McCain), the bill went nowhere. Reintroduced the following year, it again disappeared. But a few months later, a new measure, known as “the McCain Bill,” suddenly appeared. By creating a bureaucratic maze from which only a fraction of the documents could emerge—only records that revealed no POW secrets—it turned the Truth Bill on its head. The McCain bill became law in 1991 and remains so today. So crushing to transparency are its provisions that it actually spells out for the Pentagon and other agencies several rationales, scenarios, and justifications for not releasing any information at all—even about prisoners discovered alive in captivity. Later that year, the Senate Select Committee was created, where Kerry and McCain ultimately worked together to bury evidence.
McCain was also instrumental in amending the Missing Service Personnel Act, which had been strengthened in 1995 by POW advocates to include criminal penalties, saying, “Any government official who knowingly and willfully withholds from the file of a missing person any information relating to the disappearance or whereabouts and status of a missing person shall be fined as provided in Title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year or both.” A year later, in a closed House-Senate conference on an unrelated military bill, McCain, at the behest of the Pentagon, attached a crippling amendment to the act, stripping out its only enforcement teeth, the criminal penalties, and reducing the obligations of commanders in the field to speedily search for missing men and to report the incidents to the Pentagon.
Actually, we’re the ones that better be using birth control.
We’re not FJM. He’s F us.
And I just finished reading another thread here where many of the posters were adamant that our (conservative's) only chance to save the country from Obama is to stick with the GOP in the next election.
If we're stupid enough to allow another RINO to be foisted upon us, and cast our vote for the lesser of two evils, we deserve what we get.
LOL.
Obama would Make a Fine President,said John Mccain Republican Candidate for President,he also added that he will not stand for any Negative Campaigning against Barack Hussein Obama.
Dont worry when the Marxist who can not resist his Tyrannical impulses raises the Debt Limit By executive order,he will accomplish what we all want, his destruction. The Debt ceiling means Nothing,its the Massive spending that is the problem so when His Highnass does what he is salivating to do and Continues on his Spending sprees and the Unemployment contnues to grow,guess who owns the whole freakin Mess ? Thats right Barack Hussein Obama.
Living in MA at the time, Kerry caught my attention more.
Freeper Alert: Sen. KERRY / Communist Vietnamese Killing Off Christains in Central Highlands... (...with Senator McCAIN (R) in complete agreement with him, is because "Engagement" with Communist Vietnam is better for the people of Vietnam in the long run.)
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
John Kerry: McCain Approached Me About Joining Dem Ticket in 2004
McCain gives nod to Kerry campaign (MAJOR RINO ALERT!) June 2003
McCain: Hillary Would Be Good President Feb. 2005
;^)
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