by Sydney H. Schanberg
February 24th, 2004 1:00 PM
Published in the 'Village Voice'
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php
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.
I won't post the entire thing here - you can read the link at
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0408/schanberg.php
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