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McCain and the POW Cover-Up
Thursday 18 September 2008

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by: Sydney H. Schanberg, The Nation


Upon return from Vietnam, John McCain greets then-President Richard Nixon. (Photo: File)
John McCain, who has risen to political prominence on his image as a Vietnam POW war hero, has, inexplicably, worked very hard to hide from the public stunning information about American prisoners in Vietnam who, unlike him, didn't return home. Throughout his Senate career, McCain has quietly sponsored and pushed into federal law a set of prohibitions that keep the most revealing information about these men buried as classified documents. Thus the war hero who people would logically imagine as a determined crusader for the interests of POWs and their families became instead the strange champion of hiding the evidence and closing the books.

Almost as striking is the manner in which the mainstream press has shied from reporting the POW story and McCain's role in it, even as the Republican Party has made McCain's military service the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.

http://www.nationinstitute.org/p/schanberg09182008pt1

Interesting article here. Check it out.

I've posted some things on this too.

What in Gods good name? Why hasn't the MSM talked about this either?

Oh, I guess it's just another example of that "Liberal" media.

Well they cover up this and McCain's votes against veterans for some reason.