tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post5300297034331396909..comments2023-10-20T05:51:51.625-04:00Comments on The THINK 3 INSTITUTE: Vietnam Syndrome: Swiftboating McCain?Samuel Wilsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-88715017064105290812008-10-27T14:31:00.000-04:002008-10-27T14:31:00.000-04:00Doh! My error.Doh! My error.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-54931828948293872622008-10-27T14:30:00.000-04:002008-10-27T14:30:00.000-04:00Doh! My error.Doh! My error.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-81842977909377593182008-10-27T12:51:00.000-04:002008-10-27T12:51:00.000-04:00Actually, it looks like McCain was one of the last...Actually, it looks like McCain was one of the last to be let go. He was released in March 1973, during a gradual release of acknowledged remaining prisoners that began in Feburary, and the very last POWs (not counting those unaccounted for) were let go at the end of March. As I wrote, we won't get to the real bottom of this matter until it becomes less about John McCain and more about the last of the MIAs.Samuel Wilsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00934870299522899944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8820814198873126054.post-87748421008575785432008-10-27T09:53:00.000-04:002008-10-27T09:53:00.000-04:00Irregardless, there are still a large number of so...Irregardless, there are still a large number of soldiers who never made it back, either alive or dead. Certainly a percentage of them just deserted. A good number of them probably were killed in combat and simply not recovered. But, in all likelihood, there were a number who were just left behind. I would guess any of them who were actual POWs are dead by now. But that doesn't change the fact that our government simply left soldiers behind. And for someone like McCain, who was a POW, to actively stop the government from looking into those MIAs - who served their country - for political gain is unseemly, ungentlemanly and just plain rotten. The families of those soldiers deserve to know what happened to them. It's the least this country can do for those who made the ultimate sacrifice in service to their country...Unlike McCain, who took the coward's way out. Say or think what you like, but he was released before the end of the war, when many others who were POWs far longer were not. There had to have been a reason for that. Either his daddy pulled strings in Washington or he gave them whatever information he had, or he aided and abetted them by making propaganda tapes, whatever the reason, it leaves him unfit to serve as commander-in-chief of the US military, and by extension, unfit to lead the United States of America.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com