Re: POW-MIAs, Nixon-Kissingers, myths
As you know, I am a hard-core skeptic on these things, but given what I have seen to date on this I would give the odds of POWs being left behind in various conflicts as at least 50-50. As for the motives, or whether any may still be alive, that gets more complicated. Not sure what North Viet Nam, for example, would hope to gain by keeping them and not telling anyone.
Notice that no one seems to be questioning very hard the idea of a POW in Iraq.