[KantianBurke]

One of the more disgusting events of Dubya's administration was due to what took place after the capture of Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie. As soon as word got out, the US military put entire sections of Sadr City on lockdown and commenced searching for the missing soldier. Maliki contacted the White House and demanded that the barricades be removed. With the midterm elections only days away and not interested in any more bad news coming out of Iraq (Operation Together Forward had just been declared a failure on the 23rd) Bush relented. And Staff Sgt. Ahmed Altaie has been missing since.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/11/03/friday/index.html?iref=allsearch

[PieterCasparzen]

Simple carpet bombing demo, with threat of annihilation of bagdad could have fixed that. But then again, I’m crazy.

[musicman]

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[Iron Munro]

“They are the only two U.S. soldiers currently held captive as prisoners of war.”

At east the only two the government will admit to.

[Venturer]

We hould be ripping tht country apart looking for these men..

[samtheman]

Where are the nightly Days In Captivity Counts on the nightly news, as with the Iran hostages?

The media doesn’t care about members of the military.

[SuzyQue]

Do we know that Bergdahl is a prisioner?

[vaudine]

For a fascinating novel on some ideas of what became of the US military missing after Vietnam, read Nelson DeMille's The Charm School. Also gives a pretty realistic view of life in the old USSR---you don't want to live in even a reasonable facsimile of it.

Shame on W's Admin for these two missing, and shame on Admins. handling Vietnam's missing.

vaudine

[Shamrock-DW]

Don’t EVER depend on the U.S. Government to free prisoners of war. They left too many in Vietnam and turned their backs.

Politicians only look to the next election........