{"id":19477,"date":"2010-06-17T11:26:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19477"},"modified":"2010-06-17T11:26:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T15:26:58","slug":"kerry-asked-to-step-down-from-pow-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19477","title":{"rendered":"Kerry asked to step down from POW Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sent us an article about the reopening of meetings between the US and Russia to determine the fate of American POWs during the Cold War according to Bill Gertz in yesterday’s Inside the Ring <\/a>column..<\/p>\n

The White House National Security Council has been press\u00ading for the commission to resume its efforts to gain access to Russian archives where secret files on the fates of hundreds of missing Americans from wars are believed to be held.<\/p>\n

A meeting of the U.S. side of the commission was held June 10 on Capitol Hill, but a key member, Senate Foreign Rela\u00adtions Committee Chairman John Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, was absent, and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, has not assigned a Democratic House member to the panel.<\/p>\n

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Geor\u00adgia Republican and the chief of staff for Rep. Sam Johnson, Texas Republican and himself a prisoner of war in Vietnam for seven years, took part<\/p>\n

The absence of the Democ\u00adratic representatives was crit\u00adicized by several participants. They also voiced concerns that the Defense Intelligence Agency failed to send one of its officials to the meeting.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The Russians have recently opened their archives in regards to the Polish officers at Katyn Forest, which might signal a thawing of relations in that regard. <\/p>\n

U.S. officials have said privately that the Russians are believed to hold documents that will assist in the hunt for missing Americans, likely including those reported captured and held in Siberia during the Cold War and the Korean conflict.<\/p>\n

Russia has not released documents from this region since the commission was launched in 1992. POW activists suspect Moscow has blocked access to historical records because the records are expected to show the Russians executed scores, if not hundreds, of American POWs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some groups assisting the Commission aren’t pleased with the participation they’re getting from the Democrats at this critical juncture;<\/p>\n

“We deeply appreciate the Obama administration’s efforts but are dismayed the Democratic leadership in Congress cannot find two lawmakers willing to support our POW\/MIAs and their families. At a minimum, we call for Speaker Pelosi to fill immediately the empty commission seat for a Democratic congressional representative so that person can take part in the upcoming meeting,” said Dolores Alfond, chairwoman of the National Alliance of Families.<\/p>\n

“We also ask Sen. Kerry to step aside in favor of a senator willing to devote the time and energy needed for this critical mission,” she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I don’t what John Kerry is doing with this commission, anyway. He left his shipmates embattled in Vietnam in 1969 and then bayoneted them all in the back (the same way he shot that wounded Vietnamese kid in the back) with his retarded behavior at Congressional hearings and at Winter Soldier in Detroit, not to mention his antics at various protests. Why does anyone think he’s going to give a tiny, furry rat’s ass about some POWs?<\/p>\n

He’s like Al Gore’s ritarded half-brother\/cousin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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