Worth Repeating - "Ross Perot Slams McCain"

[Divine Discontent]

http://www.newsweek.com/id/94827

The Perot-McCain relationship goes back to McCain's five and a half years of captivity in Hanoi. When McCain's then-wife Carol was in a serious car accident, McCain's mother called Perot for help. "She asked me to send my people to Philadelphia to take care of the family," Perot says. Afterwards, McCain was grateful. "We loved him for it," McCain told me in 2000.

Perot doesn't remember it that way. "After he came home, he walked with a limp, she walked with a limp. So he threw her over for a poster girl with big money from Arizona and the rest is history."

Perot's real problem with McCain is that he believes the senator hushed up evidence that live POWs were left behind in Vietnam and even transferred to the Soviet Union for human experimentation, a charge Perot says he heard from a senior Vietnamese official in the 1980s. "There's evidence, evidence, evidence," Perot claims. "McCain was adamant about shutting down anything to do with recovering POWs."

[dkf]

1. Goodness. That's a pretty serious accusation.

I wonder if he has any further evidence to back himself up.

[On the Road]

6. Perot's Reasoning on The POW Issue

is that up until a certain point in the negotiations and withdrawal from Vietnam, it was generally acknowledged that there were still POWs alive in the North. Then suddenly their existence was denied. Perot felt that it became inconvenient to recognize them.

I don't have an opinion of whether he's correct, but that's his reasoning.

[and-justice-for-all]

2. WOW! that is some dirt...

Was McCain the ONLY POW released? If so, why and how was he the only one negotiated for release?

[lynnertic]

3. He was not the only POW released. By the way he's taking $58K/year in

disability pay. Now, he was banged up pretty good, but turn around and look at his current fortune and his vote against the GI BIll....

[Yael]

4. Bookmarking

[lib2DaBone]

5. I like 'ol Ross Perot

Ya know.. they said he was crazy as a loon.. with his charts and graphs and all. But you gotta admit, the guy was right about NAFTA. "That giant sucking sound will be the sound of jobs leaving the United States."