Source:
The Nation
Sydney H. Schanberg

McCain and the POW Cover-up

"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."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20081006/scha...

Imagine Barack Obama making a pledge to re-open all POW/MIA cases that were sealed under the "leadership" of John McCain. All of a sudden, McCain is thrown on the defensive regarding the whole POW issue. His treatment of the POW/MIA families was outrageous and needs to be given the attention it deserves. The POW/MIA issue has a hardcore following of many veterans and the Rolling Thunder crowd. His "I was a POW" meme would be thrown on its head.

Put McCain on the defensive. Obama should pledge to reopen the investigations into the POW/MIA cases that John McCain had a major role in squashing. It would poison McCain’s use of “I was a POW” meme, open up the scandal of the way the POW families were treated by McCain.

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My son's school had a couple of problem kids last year that enjoyed calling in bomb threats. Obviously security was increased tremendously as it should have been but now all is back to normal. No police, no weapons & no problems. I feel that guns in most schools is overkill. Chances are if someone gets shot, it will be with a gun taken from an armed officer.