Political Quotes

“I think it would be important to recognize that neither Senators Smith or Kerry, nor Senator McCain have all of the information; nor do we, because of perhaps our long involvement in this issue, have a totally objective view of the issue. The Commander in Chief of the forces in the Pacific is Admiral Larson, under whose direct command they are carrying out these operations over in Vietnam. On January 21, Admiral Larson, the Hawaii-based commander of the U.S. forces in the Pacific, said that ending the 19-year-old embargo would give him "an operational advantage" in searching for Americans listed as missing in action in Vietnam. "If we get more Americans investing, traveling, and participating in Vietnam, that will give me a network of information that will obviously help me to learn about the past, present, and perhaps the future," he said in an interview here after a 3-day visit to Vietnam this week. His comments rejected the argument by some veterans groups and families of missing servicemen that the United States should maintain its embargo to keep up pressure on Hanoi to resolve the MIA issue.”