“U.S. Senator John McCain spoke in Addison during his campaign against Barack Obama.”

Part II

http://www.unz.com/article/mccain-and-the-pow-cover-up/

excerpt:

Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general’s briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993. The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords. The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war’s end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington.

Throughout the Paris negotiations, the North Vietnamese tied the prisoner issue tightly to the issue of reparations. They were adamant in refusing to deal with them separately. Finally, in a Feb. 2, 1973 formal letter to Hanoi’s premier, Pham Van Dong, Nixon pledged $3.25 billion in “postwar reconstruction” aid “without any political conditions.” But he also attached to the letter a codicil that said the aid would be implemented by each party “in accordance with its own constitutional provisions.” That meant Congress would have to approve the appropriation, and Nixon and Kissinger knew well that Congress was in no mood to do so. The North Vietnamese, whether or not they immediately understood the double-talk in the letter, remained skeptical about the reparations promise being honored—and it never was. Hanoi thus appears to have held back prisoners—just as it had done when the French were defeated at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and withdrew their forces from Vietnam. In that case, France paid ransoms for prisoners and brought them home.

In a private briefing in 1992, high-level CIA officials told me that as the years passed and the ransom never came, it became more and more difficult for either government to admit that it knew from the start about the unacknowledged prisoners. Those prisoners had not only become useless as bargaining chips but also posed a risk to Hanoi’s desire to be accepted into the international community. The CIA officials said their intelligence indicated strongly that the remaining men—those who had not died from illness or hard labor or torture—were eventually executed.

What about all this???

Nobody’s mentioning McCain was one of the Keating Five crooks!

Read and laugh how the ‘Hero’ tried to avoid the truth.

https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kelli-ward-claims-mccains-treatment-hurt-campaign-narrative-10756488

I’m guessing none of you tough guys and gals, ever spent 5 years in a brutal POW camp.

Typo: the headline should read “GOP, R.I.P” Hear the whisper…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meow, meow, meeeeeoooooowwwwwwwww…

John McCain should be respected for his military service to our Nation and his bravery while in captivity in Viet Nam.

John McCain’s political years were characterized by him being a maverick. He lacked good judgement at times in Congress. So sad that he wanted Obama to be at his funeral. This should be the last person that any patriotic American would want at his or her funeral.

Those articles keyed above are disturbing to say the least. They haunted me all night.

I still fly my POW flag, when people ask me why, because ‘officially’ all the POWS have been accounted for,

I say “have you ever heard of the Piltdown Man.”

Of course they haven’t, but that’s just one hoax example.

No, I now understand why so many vets can’t stand McCain.

How can an accomplished journalist like Schanberg (Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge ‘Killing Fields’ exposed), become a non-person when he had the goods on McCain and so many others?

PS: I’m not saying McCain did not suffer in N. Vietnamese captivity, or was a naval hero, but what he became after he got to power is another matter, which frankly overwhelms his pre-DC past in my opinion.

As a Viet-Nam vet (Australia), who now married and lives here, I too am mystified about why the media hushed up McCaine’s sordid past with regard to the missing MIAs and POWs.

Look here, if you dare: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2017/02/15/courageous-ron-unz-wonders-john-mccain-gets-away/

https://twitter.com/georgesoros/status/1033536211103756288

http://www.wtva.com/content/national/491752991.html

One of the sharpest critics of the Pentagon’s performance was an insider, Air Force Lt. Gen. Eugene Tighe, who headed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) during the 1970s.

He openly challenged the Pentagon’s position that no live prisoners existed, saying that the evidence proved otherwise.

McCain was a bitter opponent of Tighe, who was eventually pushed into retirement.

Included in the evidence that McCain and his government allies suppressed or sought to discredit is a transcript of a senior North Vietnamese general’s briefing of the Hanoi politburo, discovered in Soviet archives by an American scholar in 1993.

The briefing took place only four months before the 1973 peace accords.

The general, Tran Van Quang, told the politburo members that Hanoi was holding 1,205 American prisoners but would keep many of them at war’s end as leverage to ensure getting war reparations from Washington.

from: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/07/no_author/mccains-pow-cover-up/

Sorry, can’t join the US lying mass media in a paean to McCaine.

I’ll take a knee on that one.

https://oathkeepers.org/2016/08/breaking-news-john-mccains-1969-tokyo-rose-propaganda-recording-released/

McCain could never forgive Trump for getting the position he strived for.

He believed he earned it in captivity.

A look back at his daddy at that time speaks volumes.

In the end, McCain proved to be treasonous to the party.

The fact that he was so close to the Clinton’s and Obamas who called him senile also speaks volumes.

Fifty years from now the whole truth about senior and son’s designs on the white house and Vietnam will come forth but until then he will be worshipped by the uninformed, those involved in deceit and the Democrats.