RE: McCain's POW Cover Up (+video) [9-22-08]

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Republicans Allege McCain Covered Up
His Collaboration with the North Vietnamese
While a POW
Mon, 2008-09-22 00:47
By Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet

A 1992 video featuring a Republican senator, Republican congressman and top Capitol Hill staffers who worked on Vietnam prisoner of war and missing in action issues say John McCain collaborated with North Vietnamese while a POW, and then covered up that involvement to the detriment of POW/MIA families seeking access to classified Pentagon records about their own family members



The video raises probing questions about the 2008 Republican presidential nominee's war record, especially after McCain made his captivity a major part of his qualifications for the presidency at the Republican National Convention In 2004, the GOP focused on Democratic nominee John Kerry's war record to criticize his candidacy

To date, the video has been posted on a handful of blogs but has been ignored by the mainstream media While it features Republican stalwarts on POW/MIA issues, it also suggests that McCain's war records at the Pentagon and in North Vietnam would reveal potentially very controversial details about the GOP's presidential candidate

The nearly eight-minute video is posted on YouTube under "Vietnam Veterans Against McCain" It begins with the title, "1992 Senate Select Committee on POW/MIAs," and features ex-Sen Bob Smith (R-NH), Rep Robert Dornan (R-CA), senate staffers Tracy Usry, James Lucier, and military family members Lynn O'Shea, of the National Alliance of Families and retired Army Cpl Bob Dumas, whose brother was a POW lost in the Korean War, and Joseph Douglass, Jr, author of Betrayed, about America's missing POWs The video has no author credits

The footage begins with Douglass, Usry, O'Shea and Smith all saying that McCain worked to kill legislation that would have opened the Pentagon's classified archive of POW/MIA files "Many, many documents were held back for no reason," former Sen Smith said Dorman said legislation that passed the House with no opposing votes was single-handedly blocked in the Senate by McCain "On the Senate side, we had one person standing in the way," Dornan said, referring to McCain

Dumas then gave the reason why - the Pentagon's records would reveal McCain had collaborated with the Vietnamese "He didn't want nobody to check his background because a lot of POWs who were with him in the camp said he was a collaborator with the enemy," Dumas said "He gave the enemy information they wanted"

Lucier, identified as a former US Senate Chief of Staff, said "we do know that when he was over there, he cooperated with Communist news services in giving interviews that were not flattering to the United States" Usry, identified as US Senate Minority Staff former chief investigator, said "information shows that he made over 32 tapes of propaganda for the Vietnamese government"

Dornan said there were transcripts of other POWs reacting to McCain's false statements, saying, "Oh my God, is that Admiral McCain's son Is that the admiral's son? Is that Johnny, telling us that our principle targets are schools, orphanages, hospitals, temples, churches? That was Jane Fonda's line" Dornan said those transcripts are in war museums in North Vietnam, where McCain, as a senator, pressured the country not to release them or face opposition concerning normalization of relations with the United States

"McCain could not have wanted those to turn up in the middle of a presidential race," the ex-congressman said "He knows that I know that And a few other people know that That's why he was against Bob Dole's legislation"

Dornan then offered another interesting explanation why McCain refused an offer by the North Vietnamese to be released Dornan said those released first were collaborators, which would have ended McCain's military career and hurt the Navy, where his father commanded the Pacific fleet

"Nobody takes that one step beyond that," Dornan said, speaking of McCain's refusal to be released "If Admiral John McCain's son had accepted this princely status and come home in 1967, while others sat there for five years, what would the Navy have done with the son of an admiral who opted to get special treatment and come home? No Navy career No House seat No Senate seat It would have been the end of his career"

Steven Rosenfeld is a Senior Fellow at AlterNetorg, where he reports on elections from a voting rights perspective His books include Count My Vote: A Citizen's Guide to Voting (AlterNet Books, 2008), What Happened in Ohio: A Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election (The New Press, 2006), and Making History in Vermont: The Election of a Socialist to Congress (Hollowbrook Publishing, 1992) An award-winning journalist, he has been a staff reporter at National Public Radio, Monitor Radio, TomPainecom, and at daily and weekly newspapers in Vermont

© 2008 Independent Media Institute All rights reserved

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Watch out Hanoi Jane, it's "SongBird" McCain

RE: Al Jazeera questions McCains POW story [9-4-08]

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Date: 04 Sep 2008, 17:09


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Date: Sep 4, 2008 3:57 PM


Fair or Despicable... you decide

http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=WFncc3QqZB8

McCain was a "traitor" in Vietnam "not a POW" say the Veterans

RE: Songbird McCains a traitor, treasonist, madman & Bush clone

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Date: Jul 4, 2008 10:23 PM



When we have come to the point as a country where John McCain is considered by anyone to be "the lesser Evil", we are fucked up beyond all reclamation! Like the man said, any kind of nuclear attack against Iran, including conventional weapons on a nuclear reactor, will pull China and Russia together as allies and the "cold war of nuclear deterrence" will seem a very happy memory to those of us who lived through those very dangerous times of "duck and cover" exercises under our school desks twice a week.

Somehow, I just never had much confidence that my desk would protect me from a nuclear bomb, even at the age of nine!














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Date: Jul 4, 2008 9:05 PM


Pan Man



Does anyone have a clue why this is not the lead story on CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, FOX and all the other propaganda networks ("propaganda" is the operational word in this interrogative sentence)? I am a Vietnam veteran and the first thing we learned was to give no information, aid or comfort to the enemy under ANY circumstances....just name, rank and serial number...or else! My father was only a senior master sergeant so I knew better than to disobey my orders. McCain's daddy was made chief Admiral in control of the Pacific theater, including Vietnam.













Here is how that worked to his unpatriotic advantage:



MAKE THIS GO VIRAL.....PLEASE...UNLESS YOU WANT TO SEE McCAIN BECOME YOUR PRESIDENT!!!








"War Hero" my ass! How about "War Zero"? Let's make this video go viral!



If this comes as a surprise to any of you, it shouldn't. People who crave wars that others must fight, suffer and die in are chicken hawk cowards like Bush and Cheney.








McCain's daddy was a top admiral and he was a pilot who got to drop bombs on peasants from the safety of his 20 million dollar fighter jet. He never once dreamed he would get shot down and be captured, and, when he did, he sang like a canary on crack to keep his butt out of the Tiger Cage. Be sure to click the link at the bottom and read the short but very damning article about this so called "war hero".

It will be his eventual un-doing, which will really throw the brokered convention drama in to high gear for Ron Paul!


Spread the word about the "Songbird", John McCain





Ron Paul after lunching on the "Songbird" at the brokered Republican Convention!









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From: Alex Jones
Date: Feb 7, 2008 5:45 AM




Top Cop Says McCain Was Never Tortured

A former Vietnam veteran with top secret clearance says he has personally spoken to numerous POW's who dispute John McCain's claim that he refused to provide information after he was captured and tortured in Hanoi, saying that in fact McCain's code-name was "Songbird" because of his willingness to tell all to avoid torture.




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RE: Brasscheck TV: White House Coup‏

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Date: Jun 22, 2008 12:28 PM


From: Nierika
Date: Jun 22, 2008 10:39 AM


Brasscheck TV: White House Coup‏

There was almost an armed coup in the US.





A Marine General was lined up to lead it...

Over 500,000 men were identified as potential
members of a private corporate army...

and the right wing press provided the propaganda
to cover it.





The year was 1934...

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White House Coup

1934







Fascist America...almost
You probably didn't learn this in school.





In 1934, a group of wealthy individuals and corporate leaders decided to force Roosevelt out of the White House - with violence if necessary.





A retired Marine General was recruited, half a million men were identified as potential members of a private army to carry out the coup, and the right wing press was on board to provide propaganda.





One of the conspirators: Prescott Bush, George W. Bush's grandfather.





How little things have changed.

Traitors are good, terrorists are bad

RE: REAL CRIMES OF WOLFOWITZ IGNORED

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Date: Apr 27, 2007 7:04 PM


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REAL CRIMES OF WOLFOWITZ IGNORED: Wolfie’s recent influence peddling scandal nothing compared to history of spying

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:12:00

American Free Press (http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/crimes_of_wolfowitz.html)




IT MADE THE NEWS when World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz was caught arranging a sweet deal for his mistress with World Bank funds, but the fact that Wolfowitz was once investigated for spying for a foreign government has kept under wraps by the mass media in America.

Those who make it their business to know about the doings of intriguers such as the big man at the World Bank recognize that Wolfowitz is a traitor who once engaged in espionage on behalf of Israel—and got away with it.

However, the much bigger scandal, dating back to 1978, has never been plastered across the front pages of newspapers or slavered over by grinning media personalities.

While the employees of the World Bank are up in arms and have publicly hissed him and called for his ouster, Wolfowitz is still hanging on at the World Bank with the support of the Israel-controlled Bush administration.

That many are reveling in the scandal surrounding Wolfowitz is not surprising. Not only is Wolfowitz a “neo-con” (that is, one of the famous neo-conservatives) but he is also, as brash commentator Maureen Dowd has noted, a “con,” in the classic sense of the word: a con-man, a crook, evidenced by his influencepeddling on behalf of his mistress. However, in addition, one might suggest, Wolfowitz should also be considered a “con” in another sense of the word: short for “convict”—as in prison convict, which is where Wolfowitz might have ended up if he had been charged with spying for Israel as some federal agents believe he is guilty of having done.

For many years, Wolfowitz has engaged in dubious affairs on behalf of the interests of Israel. Like many others in his circle of friends and political associates, Wolfowitz—both in private life, as a well-paid academic between stints in government, and in government, most lately as number two man in the Defense Department under the unlamented Donald Rumsfeld—was a key player at the highest level in a relentless, wellfunded and carefully orchestrated campaign of lies and disinformation—acting in concert with Israeli intelligence and the Israeli lobby in America—to embroil the United States in the war against Iraq.

Many call Wolfowitz a “war criminal.” At the very least, he’s a liar. But Wolfowitz, as we’ve seen, can also be pondered as a possible traitor—if then-ranking people in our FBI and the Justice Department were to be believed.

Back in 1978, Wolfowitz was under investigation, as an official of the U.S. Arms Control & Disarmament Agency, for having passed a classified U.S. document to an Israeli government official.

The purloined material related to the proposed sale of U.S. weapons to an Arab government, something always of concern to fanatic Israeli loyalists like Wolfowitz, who, although American born, has always placed Israel’s needs first and foremost in his policymaking ventures.

Wolfowitz utilized the good offices of an operative of the pro-Israel lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, as the intermediary in handing over the stolen document to Wolfowitz’s friends in Israel (where, by the way, his sister lives).

It is this same AIPAC that, even now, is in the midst of a nasty criminal spy scandal relating, once again, to the illegal acquisition of classified U.S. defense information. Two former top AIPAC officials will soon stand trial in federal court for their pro-Israel misdeeds. In any event, although Wolfowitz was never prosecuted for espionage, that doesn’t mean that there wasn’t evidence to indict him.

Several long-time close Wolfowitz associates (all now-infamous “neo-conservative” armchair intriguers for Israel)—ranging from Richard Perle to Stephen Bryen to Michael Ledeen to Douglas Feith, who served as Wolfowitz’s deputy in the Defense Department—have all been under FBI scrutiny at one time or another on suspicion of espionage on behalf of Israel.

It often surprises many Americans, who hear in the media that Israel is such a great ally of the United States, to learn that there are good patriotic Americans in the FBI who don’t like the idea of American public officials, like the aforementioned neo-conservatives, passing classified defense material to this dubious ally.

None of these neo-cons was ever indicted. However, in the case of Bryen, one dedicated federal prosecutor (who happened to be Jewish) pushed hard to indict Bryen, only to have the Israeli lobby put pressure on the Reagan administration to force the Justice Department (ruled by a series of notably corrupt and Israeli-influenced attorneys general during the Reagan years) to abandon the Bryen investigation.

Forget about Wolfowitz and his mistress. Don’t forget about Wolfowitz and his spying for Israel.