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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jim-thompson who wrote (634024)	9/28/2004 12:24:55 AM
From: jim-thompson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Kiss the Boys Goodbye" is the book I was talking about earlier. It was because of Ed Bradley, 60 Minutes that this gal quit CBS. Got me so upset reading this, that i quit reading the book and returned it to a co-worker who had loaned it to me. Jensen-Stevenson, Monika and Stevenson, William. Kiss the Boys Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam. New York: Dutton (Penguin Books), 1990. 493 pages. Monika Jensen-Stevenson was a producer for CBS's "60 Minutes" in 1985, and her husband Bill was a former fighter pilot, war correspondent, and the author of military histories such as "A Man Called Intrepid" and "Ninety Minutes at Entebbe." This book begins with a segment she produced on Bobby Garwood, a Marine POW who was released by Vietnam in 1979. Efforts were made to discredit Garwood, because his testimony that other prisoners were still held captive was inconvenient for high government officials. Her segment aired despite attempts to stop it by gray men with shadowy connections. This only whetted her appetite, so she quit CBS and convinced Bill to help her write a book. They were confronted with missing files, snatched purses and briefcases, harassment designed to intimidate, threats from officials, and stories from scared insiders. Ross Perot, the Christic Institute, Bo Gritz, Scott Barnes, and others figure in this disturbing drama, and the reader is left with the spooky certainty that there's something going on here. The Stevensons are a conservative, well-connected Georgetown couple who socialized with Eric Severeid and Supreme Court justice William Brennan, and they had numerous intelligence contacts. If in the end they write of "zealots who fund murky foreign wars with deniable assets and disposable soldiers," and refer to the secret state as a "hidden monster," who among us can feel comfortable? ISBN 0-525-24934-6 namebase.org This book was recently listed at UsedBookCentral.com

To: jim-thompson who wrote (634024)	9/29/2004 1:34:48 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Interesting. Re: "I should provide him with any information I had on missing Americans. This he stated he would take to Hanoi to discuss with the Communists. He didn't seem to understand the Communists knew where the POWs were and needed no HELP from him to "find them." (Who said anything about 'finding' them. Wouldn't it be useful to TELL the North that you knew about their lies in claiming they held no more prisoners? Wouldn't that raise the heat on them?) "He then stated that no matter what I had there would be no military operation to rescue them." (Did he ever say that was his personal opinion that we should not engage in military operations to attempt rescue of prisoners? Or was he merely relaying his considered opinion on the prevailing political realities in Washington? Much as I hate to admit it --- every President from Nixon on has tried to play down reports of surviving prisoners... so there would never be any impetus behind efforts to mount official 'rescue' missions. The Pentagon has LIED REPEATEDLY... (just as they lied after earlier wars, such as Korea, where we now have PROOF that there were live American prisoners left behind.)