The fate of an American serviceman should not become the football of a global popularity contest or of megalomaniacal political agendas.

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But I would tell you that I can't imagine -- I obviously wasn't here in 2008, when President Bush issued a similar apology after there was an American serviceman who had damaged a religious document of some kind.

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Vaughn Taylor, who has long represented Robert Garwood an American serviceman in Vietnam who collaborated with his captors in order to survive his incarceration which continued until 1979, emphasized that Garwood has consistently reported having seen hundreds of other U.S. prisoners held against their will by Hanoi.

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Vaughn Taylor, who has long represented Robert Garwood -- an American serviceman in Vietnam who collaborated with his captors in order to survive his incarceration which continued until 1979, emphasized that Garwood has consistently reported having seen hundreds of other U.S. prisoners held against their will by Hanoi.

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The Center for Security Policy believes that, with the release this morning of the U.S. serviceman taken prisoner by General Aideed's forces, the time has come for a prompt withdrawal of American forces from Somalia.

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