Help debunking smear that Kerry covered up missing POWs in Vietnam

[SangamonTaylor]

Help. This sounds like total garbage to me...typical smear campaign. Anyone have links to debunk this crap?

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php

When John Kerry's Courage Went M.I.A.

Senator John Kerry, a decorated battle veteran, was courageous as a navy lieutenant in the Vietnam War. But he was not so courageous more than two decades later, when he covered up voluminous evidence that a significant number of live American prisoners—perhaps hundreds—were never acknowledged or returned after the war-ending treaty was signed in January 1973.

The Massachusetts senator, now seeking the presidency, carried out this subterfuge a little over a decade ago— shredding documents, suppressing testimony, and sanitizing the committee's final report—when he was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on P.O.W./ M.I.A. Affairs.

Over the years, an abundance of evidence had come to light that the North Vietnamese, while returning 591 U.S. prisoners of war after the treaty signing, had held back many others as future bargaining chips for the $4 billion or more in war reparations that the Nixon administration had pledged. Hanoi didn't trust Washington to fulfill its pro-mise without pressure. Similarly, Washington didn't trust Hanoi to return all the prisoners and carry out all the treaty provisions. The mistrust on both sides was merited. Hanoi held back prisoners and the U.S. provided no reconstruction funds.

[creeksneakers2]

1. Its all complete lies

Made up by con artists like scumbag Ted Sampley. I'll start editing in links.

Kerry's report is on the web. They took an exausting look into every POW/MIA lie.

Part of Kerry's and McCain's friendship was built here. Together, they put an end to this cruel hoax that was designed to make money off the grief of POW/MIA families.

"I regret the burden the families have borne through these long years of uncertainty and loss. And I condemn the cruelty of fast operators who have preyed on their hopes and made them suffer.".....Testimony of Dick Cheney

http://www.aiipowmia.com/ssc/chny.html

http://www.diendancongluan.net/MarkASmith/TheTruthAbout_MarkSmith.htm

The act that normalized relations between the U.S. and Vietnam requires that the president sign a finding each year that North Vietnam has fully cooperated in finding MIA/POWs. Bush has signed a finding stating this every year he's been in office.

[SangamonTaylor]

3. thank you, i have some cruel people on another board spreading lies

thanks

[wishlist]

2. Kerry found out that much of the evidence of POW's left behind was faked

He had no reason to head up the POW investigation except to find out the truth and no motive to cover anything up and neither did John McCain who reached the same conclusions as Kerry. Their investigation revealed that much of the 'evidence' purporting to indicate POW's left behind turned out to be false and unsubstantiated.

Over 10 years have gone by since Kerry's investigation was completed, and his findings have held up and not been discredited or disproven.

This pro-Kerry website provides his full bio including a paragraph about the his POW investigation.

http://www.independentsforkerry.org/uploads/media/kerry-rolling-stone.html