Reply #47: Well said.

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And I agree. I read some of this stuff in 2004 as well (and have NO desire to revisit it now), and he seemed to start from a really negative view of JK. And to have bought into the garbage that nutjob (forget his name) was always spewing about JK and the POW/MIA issue.

I guess the theory (eerily similar to those about JK's Vietnam service, when you think about it) was that he was so eager to burnish his political reputation by normalizing relations with Vietnam that he sold out the missing soldiers' interests to get there.

A few problems with that:

* JK's unending dedication to the rights of the people who have fought for our country.

* The fact that the whole issue of Vietnam was a political hot potato no one wanted to touch at the time. (And it still is a hot potato. It still comes up every single day in some way or another. It is the war that will, apparently, never end.)