Obama needs to make this an issue.

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/schanberg

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.

John Kerry worked on the POW/MIA issue and was hated by the Rolling Thunder crowd too. There aren't any more POW's in Vietnam. The country is open. We have teams over there who are bringing bodies home all the time.

But why was so much effort expended by McCain, Kerry, et al to aggressively squash any further investigations into the unfollowed leads. If it were you're son that was missing, wouldn't you want every possible lead followed to the end? By shutting it all down, McCain conveniently locked up his own POW records from prying eyes as well.

The country is open. There are teams in Vietnam who are investigating the whereabouts of all troops who went missing. These people are just flat wrong. They ought to go to Vietnam themselves if they're so sure troops are still over there.

then perhaps the woman mccain slammed in a wheelchair would get attention.

They all have something to hide. Something they cannot tell anyone. That is what makes them good at politics. It gives them the life-long training - the discipline required to succeed in politics - the candor to successfully lie when lying is a necessary evil.

The dumb one's though, they hide their thing by showing it to everyone. Like secret gays who are publicly against gayness.