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New Evidence Suggests U.S. POWS still alive in Laos/Vietnam

propagandamatrix.com — There is new evidence that American GIs are being held against their will in Southeast Asia more than three decades after the Vietnam War officially ended. A letter recently received by the father of a U.S. pilot, who went missing in action in 1971,could provide a key piece of information that proves American prisoners of war are still alive.

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  • Surferess, on 07/07/2008, -1/+4We must do something about this.
    • squinky86, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1So you think the Vietnamese, Chinese, or Burma (aka Myanmar) governments will cooperate? Yeah right.
      So if we invade to try to free these people, the American people protest another invasion. If we ask the governments to turn over any American POWs, they will report that all have been turned over.
      My question to you is, how exactly do you propose that we do something about this?
      Read up on Burmese culture and the cultures surrounding it to understand just what "doing something about this" entails: http://www.myecubby.com/book.php?isbn=978185435299 ... I do trust that our government is doing all they can. The article only claims that the families were thwarted when they tried to investigate themselves. No actual evidence was presented. Since most of this is classified, and there are people looking at it (there was someone who leaked information), that means the government is doing something about it. All we can do is pressure the government to make their intelligence public on this matter, then we can talk about "doing something about this."
  • Kanuhduh, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7That's depressing. We'll spend Trillions of dollars on a war in Iraq, but refused a ransom of a few thousand dollars to return a POW?
    • squinky86, on 07/08/2008, -0/+1Not depressing. If we give in to terrorist ransom demands, how much more will they ask for?

      The US government receives hundreds of ransom notes every year. Most of which are fake. I believe that the US government has intelligence to determine if the ransom is credible or not.
      The next step, once they determine if it is credible, is usually more intelligence gathering. Is this person real? How much espionage can be done to determine the authenticity? Is this letter from a group that holds prisoners ransom often? What is that group's previous track record?
      The final step is to free the prisoner. This is where it gets hairy. We can't finance terrorism - imagine what the books will say in the future: "The US actually financed the terrorism they were fighting!" We can't invade, or the American people and people of the country we are invading will protest. That's why these actions must be kept confidential. The fewer the people who know what the government is going to do to free their citizens, the better the chance of actually freeing them.
  • lardoandkeg, on 07/07/2008, -1/+8Hold on, I am putting a call in to my buddy John........Rambo.
  • MorganMghee, on 07/08/2008, -1/+1Their governments must be waiting for a free trade agreement offer to release them, oh, and for the rescuers to attend acting school.
  • wonderchemist, on 07/08/2008, -2/+2How do we know these guys didn't just catch Yellow Fever?
  • actorboy, on 07/08/2008, -0/+3Damn, I thought McCain made all the evidence top secret.
  • sixsixsixtimer, on 07/08/2008, -0/+0It is very possible that some of them found wives and or assimilated after being released. Seriously after decades of brainwashing this could be possible, but we should at least investigate and find our heroes and return them home. Unfortunately many Americans may suffer the same fate in the middle east if we do not support our troops and their efforts to stabilize the region. Will you let your fellow American soldiers suffer in the Middle East for years just because a few antisemitic nutbags want to blame this all on Israel?
  • brjohnson789, on 07/09/2008, -0/+1But I thought the US Gov't cared for the troops :-P
  • MommaLu, on 07/24/2008, -0/+2All the Government cares about is getting more of our tax dollars and wasting them on bridges to nowhere. A good government is a small government.
  • skipthefrog, on 08/07/2008, -0/+1Rescue Dawn.
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