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 people would logically imagine to be 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 McCain has made his military service and POW history the focus of his presidential campaign. Reporters who had covered the Vietnam War have also turned their heads and walked in other directions. McCain doesn't talk about the missing men, and the press never asks him about them.
McCain and the POW Cover-upLonger version of article...Vietnam Veterans Against John McCainJohn McCain: War Hero or North Vietnam's Go-To Collaborator?Why is it that Senator McCain SUPPORTS anything the VIETNAMESE COMMUNISTS want -- for instance lifting of the trade embargo, normalization, or most favored nation. Yet, Senator McCain's voting record shows a lack of support on many of the American veterans issues OR our abandoned POWs! Why would a former POW HUG HIS FORMER CAPTOR??? I believe Senator McCain's "ACHILLES HEEL" is his behavior during his captivity.Their Voice: POW/MIA Families Tell Their Stories1992: This is the "REAL" John McCain in living color seen belittling Delores Alfond, head of the National Alliance of POW/MIA whose brother went missing in action in Vietnam . . .
