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Come on guys, let's have a sanity check here.

1.) These claims have been checked, re-checked, checked,and checked again by the investigators at the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office and were determined to be unfounded.
2.) The book (of which I have a copy) is filled with half-truths, downright lies, and misinterpreted information.
3.) The "Abandoned POW" claims would mean that Generals like Omar Bradley, a great American, and others like him were complicit in selling out American servicemen - something that would NEVER happen
4.) The "nuclear blackmail" scenario is completely ludicrous - a.) if you believe that then you think our country and our leaders are weak, and b.) if we succumbed to "nuclear blackmail" by the Soviets they would have used it OVER and OVER and OVER and OVER again to get what they want. The Cuban Blockade during the missile crisis would never have been attempted, we NEVER would have gotten involved in Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, the first Gulf War, Libya, we never would have conducted airborne recon near the Soviet Union, Gary Powers NEVER would have flown over the Soviet Union, etc.

Furthermore, you would also have to believe that every president since Truman would have been complicit in the coverup - to include the greatest modern American president - Ronald Reagan.

It's time to get a gripo and start believing in your country again. Jeez.

"These claims have been checked, re-checked, checked,and checked again by the investigators at the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office and were determined to be unfounded."

So you're saying our gov't has checked the allegations and issued a report saying they are not true. Name ONE instance where our gov't has admitted ANY mistake.

I just read "The flyboys" we are just learning about the attrocities our gov't covered up about our ENEMY. Parents and siblings not told what was KNOWN TO HAVE HAPPENED, until 40 years later! It's been on the best seller list, no one claims it's B.S. How much less will our gov't admit about it's OWN mistakes.

How about the nuclear testing with troops watching in the desert? How many years till that was acknowleged, and then only because there were ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS of the event showing the troops!

Why was Mcarthur dismissed? Truman was afraid the General would get us in a war with the Soviets!

I'm sorry, but I trusted my government COMPLETELY untill about 10 years ago. Now I know that it is as weak as the weakest politician......

There ARE and HAVE BEEN many FINE AND UPSTANDING people who have given their all for our country, but there have been too many traitors and weak people in our own Gov't then as today....

R.E. the Cuban Missle crises, Kennedy DID BACK DOWN! We pulled our missles out of Turkey on the QT, which was the original Soviet Demand! We just did it quietly. He traded Turkey for Cuba. But he saved face.....

Patton, just like McArthur; KNEW THE TRUTH.

Surely no one is surprised at the knowledge that crackpot theorists tend to fall for most crackpot theories. Anyone goofy enough to think that there was even a TINY chance that the US would attack five or six million Soviet soldiers in Europe and untold millions more in the USSR itself is clearly not playing with a full deck.