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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence

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To: MSI who wrote (8896)	10/28/2001 8:49:49 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (2) of 27666

MSI-- Senate Approves Vietnam Trade Pact - That says it all. One the few friends our POW/MIA have in the Senate did issue a statement regarding the new Trade Pact with Vietnam. The following statement from the Office of Senator Bob Smith, October 3, 2001 was "Spoken on the floor of the United States Senate." "I do not want to normalize trade relations with Vietnam for a number of reasons--first and foremost, because they have never fully accounted for our POWs and MIAs, and I don't care how many people come on the floor [of the Senate] and say they did. They have not. It is an issue I have worked on for 17 years, and I can tell you right now they have not fully cooperated in accounting for POWs. If anyone wants to sit down with me and go through it on a case-by-case basis, I will be happy to do it." "Paul Wolfowitz [Deputy Secretary of Defense] agrees. The archives have not been opened. Have they been cooperative to some extent? Yes. Have they been fully cooperative? No. There are lots of families out there who have not gotten information on their loved ones that the Vietnamese could provide. They have not done it. So I don't want to hear this stuff that they are fully cooperative. They are not fully cooperative. There is a big difference between being cooperative and being fully cooperative. They are not cooperative fully. You can ask anyone who works on this issue on the Intelligence Committee--and certainly Paul Wolfowitz knows what he is talking about. He says they are not fully cooperative." "So let's not stand on the floor of the Senate and say let's normalize trade with Vietnam because they have been fully cooperative when every one of us knows differently. End of story; they are not."

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