The Left said there were no POW left in Vietnam

[liberty]

The commies said there were no POW left in Vietnam:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html


U.S. Army veteran 'is found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down and presumed dead'... but his daughters refuse to take DNA tests to prove his identity

[Bicycle Bill]

The commies said there were no POW left in Vietnam:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -down.html

U.S. Army veteran 'is found living in Vietnam village 44 YEARS after being shot down and presumed dead'... but his daughters refuse to take DNA tests to prove his identity

You didn't read the entire article, did you?  It clearly says this is bogus and that this was some elderly Vietnamese who was trying to impersonate an American MIA.  But some guy's got a half-baked theory that this is really some American who was presumed KIA, so liberty's off to the races.

Sgt. Robertson's name is etched along with 60,000 others onto Washington D.C.'s poignant Vietnam memorial, but now the documentary questions whether he is actually alive and well. (from the 'Daily Mail' article)

Just for the record, a search of the database of the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial does not turn up any entry for 'John Hartley Robertson' ......

-"BB"-

[RayThom]

... Just for the record, a search of the database of the names on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial does not turn up any entry for 'John Hartley Robertson' ...

That may be true, however, there is this 'John Hartley Robertson' listed in the registry:
http://thewall-usa.com/info.asp?recid=43833

[BoSoxGal]

What prompted you to post a 4 year old article?

Anyway, he's not who the documentary claimed him to be, as proven by DNA:

https://www.stripes.com/news/pacific/dn ... UEzSKgpBR5


Also, it's not being a POW when you choose to stay in country and reject your family and home. I believe that's called desertion?

[Big RR]

Well I could see where a POW suffering from sort of Stockholm syndrome might "choose" to do that, but unless he were prevented from leaving, it would not amount to being kept prisoner.

I always thought that the story was that the former POWs were being kept as slaves like in the Missing in Action films, but haven't seen that yet.

[MajGenl.Meade]

From Fold3. Also, if you search John Robertson on the Wall site BB used, you don't get John H (at least is seems to show only 5 names or perhaps I couldn't access pages 2-5). But if you search "John Robertson", he and a whole lot of other Robertsons show up.

Yeah, lib. Good question. Why did you dig up a 4 year old story that has already been shown false by the family's own private DNA test? I guess you just did not notice the date - very sloppy

I ain't no commie but I've maintained for years that there are as many POWs left in Vietnam/Laos/Cambodia as there are members of Washington's army languishing in British prison hulks. It will be good to reach the year 2050 and the entire nonsense will finally have to die; presumably people who love being members of something will have passed away, just as their pow/mia relatives already have.

[oldr_n_wsr]

I always thought that the story was that the former POWs were being kept as slaves like in the Missing in Action films, but haven't seen that yet.

And in one of the Rambo films.

[Big RR]

Yep, forgot that one.

[liberty]

Yeah, lib. Good question. Why did you dig up a 4 year old story that has already been shown false by the family's own private DNA test? I guess you just did not notice the date - very sloppy

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I didn’t post the story; I posted the title. There probably are no POW left in Vietnam because once Bill Clinton made them worthless the commies kill them. Why would the commies kill them, because that is what commies do.

[Crackpot]

Embarrassed about being called out on his crap once again Liberty has decided to throw a tantrum.

[liberty]

Embarrassed about being called out on his crap once again Liberty has decided to throw a tantrum.

Check your dictionary and nothing on here would embarrasses me.

[Joe Guy]

Check your dictionary and nothing on here would embarrasses me.

A lot of thought went into that...

[rubato]

The Left said there were no POW left in Vietnam

And once again they were right.


yrs,
rubato

[BoSoxGal]

[Crackpot]

For all of you who say you don't believe in or haven't witnessed a miracle consider this:
Liberty often types complete words.

[MajGenl.Meade]

I didn’t post the story; I posted the title. There probably are no POW left in Vietnam because once Bill Clinton made them worthless the commies kill them. Why would the commies kill them, because that is what commies do.

Sorry lib - that's just an untruth. You posted the entire story (as a link).

You still have not answered the question: why did you bring this ancient history up?

What evidence do you have that "the commies" killed any U.S. POWs since 1973, much less since 1994 when Clinton responded to the McCain/Kerry resolution passed by Congress by removing the bi-lateral embargo?

Five Presidents failed to dispel the questions surrounding the missing Americans, in part because at least three of those Presidents exploited the issue shamelessly....... McCain's sponsorship persuaded twenty Republicans to vote for the measure, which passed by a vote of sixty-two to thirty-eight

The New Yorker, Oct 21 1996. So you see, without Republicans, Clinton would have had no fig-leaf.

There are probably no POWs in Vietnam because Vietnam turned over all the live ones. In 1973.

[dales]

For all of you who say you don't believe in or haven't witnessed a miracle consider this:
Liberty often types complete words.

I also understand that he's mastered walking upright on two legs.

[Crackpot]

That, however, is entirely hearsay.

[Joe Guy]

Here's proof!

A statue of liberty...

[liberty]

I didn’t post the story; I posted the title. There probably are no POW left in Vietnam because once Bill Clinton made them worthless the commies kill them. Why would the commies kill them, because that is what commies do.

Sorry lib - that's just an untruth. You posted the entire story (as a link). I didn’t see it that way. Next time, I won’t post the link. You still have not answered the question: why did you bring this ancient history up?

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I was planning use Vietnam to demonstrate how it would be useless to resist the Russians in a future war in the artic, but after posting it I lost interest in the scheme.