I'm sorry, those that listen to neocon radio I guess are not familiar with the term "chicken hawk." Rush Scumbaugh is an example. He beat the draft, using a sore on his butt as his excuse, but he beats the drum for the war and everyone else to go fight it. That's a "chicken hawk."
Phony patriotism is the act of plastering your car with flags, yellow ribbons and Bush bumper stickers, and at the same time not giving a damn what happens to the veterans when they come back home. Twenty Republican senators voted against the new G.I. Bill last week, including another "chicken hawk" by the name of Senator Lugar.
My source for Vietnam POWs still in Vietnam is the book "An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia" by former Congressman Bill Henon of North Carolina and Elizabeth Stewart (daughter of an Air Force pilot lost in Vietnam).
The main reason for the secrecy is the billions in war reparations demanded by the Vietnamese and promised by Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon at the Paris peace talks.
Hendon and Stewart provide a mountain of evidence, mainly intelligence reports of live sightings of American prisoners in Vietnam and Laos.
Despite hundreds of postwar live sightings and intelligence reports of Americans being held captive throughout Vietnam and Laos, Washington did nothing. Despite numerous secret military signals and codes sent from desperate POWs themselves, the Pentagon did not act. Even in 1988, a U.S. spy satellite passing over Sam Neua province, Laos, spotted 12-foot tall letters "USA" and immediately beneath them a huge, highly classified Vietnam war era USAF/USN escape and evasion code in a rice paddy in a narrow mountain valley. The letters USA appeared to have been dug out of the ground while the code appeared to have been fashioned from rice straw.
