Posted on 09/25/2017 6:36:26 PM PDT by SMGFan
He’s just doing the bidding of his master, Henry Kissinger.
The little man McCain may be applauded by the Democrats and media today, but I think history will show him to be a pathetic figure of a man who had zero principles.
“This is not how you go out in style for the last month of your continent life.”
It was an egotistical exercise of raw power. Supporting the bill meant he was playing on the team and would not be singled out for applause. Announcing his opposition demonstrated to the world he, a dying man, wasn’t impotent. It also gave him the applause of the media, Democrats, and other members of the elite class. With McCain, it has always been about him.
Frenchie and Juan used to turn the lights off and leave an empty room, rather than meet POW MIA reps/families
When he finally croaks, can we all agree to forego any false tears?
And then he did worse than that. He authored and amended legislation making it more difficult to get information about POWs/MIAs in the future.
McCain and the POW Cover-UpBitterly opposed by the Pentagon (and thus McCain), the bill went nowhere. Reintroduced the following year, it again disappeared. But a few months later, a new measure, known as “the McCain Bill,”suddenly appeared. By creating a bureaucratic maze from which only a fraction of the documents could emerge—only records that revealed no POW secrets—it turned the Truth Bill on its head. The McCain bill became law in 1991 and remains so today. So crushing to transparency are its provisions that it actually spells out for the Pentagon and other agencies several rationales, scenarios, and justifications for not releasing any information at all—even about prisoners discovered alive in captivity. Later that year, the Senate Select Committee was created, where Kerry and McCain ultimately worked together to bury evidence.
McCain was also instrumental in amending the Missing Service Personnel Act, which had been strengthened in 1995 by POW advocates to include criminal penalties, saying, “Any government official who knowingly and willfully withholds from the file of a missing person any information relating to the disappearance or whereabouts and status of a missing person shall be fined as provided in Title 18 or imprisoned not more than one year or both.” A year later, in a closed House-Senate conference on an unrelated military bill, McCain, at the behest of the Pentagon, attached a crippling amendment to the act, stripping out its only enforcement teeth, the criminal penalties, and reducing the obligations of commanders in the field to speedily search for missing men and to report the incidents to the Pentagon.
About the relaxation of POW/MIA obligations on commanders in the field, a public McCain memo said, “This transfers the bureaucracy involved out of the [battle] field to Washington.” He wrote that the original legislation, if left intact, “would accomplish nothing but create new jobs for lawyers and turn military commanders into clerks.”
I get sick to my stomach when I read about what McCain has done to hide how our government dealt with POWs after the Vietnam war. Apparently they tried to ‘sell’ those prisoners to our government and our government wouldn’t pay. Those poor families of the MIAs. Deep down they know their loved ones were sacrificed.
He is owned by the establishment .... just a RINO whore!
A car pool. Yet another good idea.
It makes me sick too. And then he created laws to make sure it kept happening on into all future conflicts.
If that turns your stomach, just do some research on the American POWs who were taken to Siberia by the Russians after WW2.
Ike himself had a hand in covering that one up.
I believe the number was pretty high.
Chuckie Schumer’s brain dead road w***e.
Never thought I would see the day. It proves to me that Republicans and democrats only fight to see who controls the distribution of YOUR TAX MONEY, no matter how bad the law is.
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