Of all the presidential camps to use Vietnam against McCain, the Clinton folks should be the last one. This is from Maureen Dowd's column in today's New York Times:
Privately, Hillary's camp was not overly upset by the McCain swipe because it suspected he was doing the bidding of the White House and that he ended up, as one adviser put it, "looking similar to the way he did on those captive tapes from Hanoi, where he recited the names of his crew mates."
The McCain camp has fired back. Asked for a response, John Weaver told the New York Daily News:
I never expected the Clintons or their allies to know much about Vietnam. But is disappointing to see one of her spokespeople purposefully lie about John's war record and time in a Hanoi prison camp. There was no such tape recording; though he did once give up the starting lineup of the Green Bay Packers while under extreme duress. Senator Clinton's spokesperson does a disservice to all who were there and served so bravely and honorably.
Also, Jay Ambrose has a good piece, " Rewards that Failed," on the Clinton administration's deeply flawed 1994 Agreed Framework with North Korea.