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  • July 2008

    • 'Right-Wing Freak Machine' Hit Me: Clark

      Huffington Post  |  Jul 18, 08 6:22 PM CDT

      'Right-Wing Freak Machine' Hit Me: Clark

      (Newser) - Wesley Clark told a netroots conference last night that he was attacked by the “great freak show” after saying John McCain’s POW experience wasn’t sufficient qualification for the presidency, the Huffington Post reports. “This is a playbook operation by the right-wing freak machine,” Clark said, “the great freak show where they take a statement, distort it, blast it out of context and make it personal.” More »

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      John McCain  • POW  • Wesley Clark  • netroots  • right-wing attacks

  • June 2008

    • McCain's War Record Now Fair Game

      Politico  |  Jun 30, 08 12:10 PM CDT

      McCain's War Record Now Fair Game

      (Newser) - Wesley Clark's answer to a question on Face the Nation yesterday has exposed a simmering campaign issue, Politico reports: whether John McCain’s Vietnam ordeal translates to relevant experience for the presidency. "I don't think riding in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to be president," said Clark, a Barack Obama supporter. More »

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      John McCain  • negative campaigning  • Vietnam War  • POW  • Wesley Clark  • Hanoi

    • Hanoi Captor Endorses McCain, Denies Torture

      Associated Press  |  Jun 28, 08 9:13 AM CDT

      Hanoi Captor Endorses McCain, Denies Torture

      (Newser) - John McCain’s Vietnam War jailer says he would vote for him because of McCain's willingness to forgive and look to the future, the AP reports. In the same breath, Tran Trong Duyet denied that McCain was tortured during his 5-year imprisonment and accused him of making up the stories to win votes. A retired Marine imprisoned with McCain spoke for the campaign and called Duyet “a damn liar.” More »

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      John McCain  • McCain 2008  • Vietnam War  • POW

    • Vietnam Stays With McCain

      Boston Globe  |  Jun 23, 08 2:35 PM CDT

      Vietnam Stays With McCain

      (Newser) - After 5 years as a POW, John McCain returned to Vietnam in 1974 and 1985, trips that inextricably linked him with the war in American minds. They also helped color the way he thinks about foreign policy and helped him learn to make amends with onetime enemies when it meant closure on MIAs. The Boston Globe looks at the candidate's evolution through the prism of that experience. More »

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      John McCain  • foreign policy  • Vietnam  • POW  • MIA  • POW/MIA  • Walter Cronkite

    • China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 08 8:53 AM CDT

      China Admits Burying US POW From Korean War

      (Newser) - China has for the first time admitted holding an American prisoner from the Korean War on its soil, AP reports. The Vermont man, just 18 when he was captured, died in China and was buried there, officials said. China authorities, who said the prisoner was mentally ill, had previously insisted no American POWs were taken from North Korea. More »

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      China  • North Korea  • POW  • prisoner of war  • Korean War  • POW/MIA

  • May 2008

    • 'Bogus' McCain, Bush Oppose New GI Bill

      New York Times  |  May 6, 08 11:42 AM CDT

      'Bogus' McCain, Bush Oppose New GI Bill

      (Newser) - The so-called new GI bill, which would update the famed original to fund education for veterans, should be an obvious ‘Yea’ vote for any legislator, but, the New York Times ' Bob Herbert points out, John McCain and President Bush are fighting it. The bipartisan bill is “an investment” in the lives of veterans, and Herbert is flabbergasted the former POW is against it. More »

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      John McCain  • POW  • James Webb  • scholarship

  • April 2008

    • McCain Keeps His God to Himself

      Politico  |  Apr 3, 08 2:05 PM CDT

      McCain Keeps His God to Himself

      (Newser) - John McCain is notably reserved about his religious faith. He rarely refers to God on campaign stops, in marked contrast to the two presidents who preceded him and, in a role reversal, to his Democratic opponents. His reticence is a throwback to the days when religion was kept out of politics, Politico notes, and may be a weapon against him in the general election. More »

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      Barack Obama  • John McCain  • religion  • POW  • Jerry Falwell  • John Hagee  • Gary Bauer

  • March 2008

    • India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      Military Times  |  Mar 20, 08 11:00 AM CDT

      India to Help US Hunt Lost WWII Crews

      (Newser) - US bomber crews that went missing in the Himalayas during World War II may be recovered after more than six decades, reports the Military Times . While experts have long identified potential crash sites, the US military has been unable to access the dangerous border region between India, China, and Burma. Now, India is close to allowing a US-led expedition in. More »

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      China  • India  • World War II  • missing person  • POW  • Himalayas  • MIA  • US Army Air Force

    • Steinem on McCain's Vietnam Years: So What?

      New York Observer  |  Mar 4, 08 5:41 AM CST

      Steinem on McCain's Vietnam Years: So What?

      (Newser) - Uber feminist Gloria Steinem downplayed John McCain's experience as a Vietnam POW in a stump speech for Hillary Clinton, and said Americans have behaved since George Washington "as if killing people is a qualification for ruling people," reports the New York Observer . Speaking of McCain's years as a POW, Steinem told a Texas audience: "I mean, hello? This is supposed to be a qualification to be president? I don’t think so." More »

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      John McCain  • Hillary Clinton  • feminism  • Vietnam War  • POW  • Gloria Steinem

  • January 2008
  • November 2007

    • McCain Updates Waterboard Dig at Romney

      Associated Press  |  Nov 29, 07 2:39 PM CST

      McCain Updates Waterboard Dig at Romney

      (Newser) - John McCain today extended his angry response to Mitt Romney’s cagey comments on torture in last night’s debate, reminding Americans that the US hanged members of the Japanese military for waterboarding Americans in WWII. “There should be little doubt that we consider that as torture,” McCain concluded in his biting history lesson, the AP reports. More »

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      John McCain  • Mitt Romney  • waterboarding  • POW  • Geneva Convention

  • August 2007

    • It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      Miami Herald  |  Aug 28, 07 12:33 PM CDT

      It's Bon Voyage for Noriega

      (Newser) - Former dictator of Panama Manuel Noriega will be extradited to France to serve ten more years of jail time. Noriega has done 18 years in a Miami prison, and will be released for good behavior next month. He faces money laundering charges in France, but had asked to return to Panama—despite possibly facing even more jail time there. More »

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      France  • jail  • money laundering  • extradition  • POW  • Panama  • Geneva Convention  • prisoner of war  • Manuel Noriega

    • Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

      Miami Herald  |  Aug 24, 07 5:29 PM CDT

      Judge Allows Noriega Extradition

      (Newser) - A federal judge today rejected former dictator Manuel Noriega's request to return to Panama following his release from a Miami prison next month, the Miami Herald reports. Noriega sought to avoid extradition to France, where he faces a 10-year sentence for a conviction in abstentia on money laundering charges. Noriega argued that he was entitled to repatriation under the Geneva Convention because he was declared a POW by the US in 1992. More »

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      France  • prisoners  • extradition  • POW  • Panama  • Geneva Convention  • prisoner of war  • Manuel Noriega

  • June 2007
  • March 2007

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