Obama Faces Pressure to Inquire About ‘Missing’ U.S. Prisoners During Historic Vietnam Visit, What load of Bull Shit, Historic Visit, My Ass

VIETNAM WELCOMES CLINTON / First U.S. president to visit Hanoi pledges renewed relationship.

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/VIETNAM-WELCOMES-CLINTON-First-U-S-president-3237006.php

Barack Obama’s mission in Vietnam and Japan is to build stronger economic and security ties with Asian-Pacific allies anxious about the rise of an increasingly muscular China. That forward-looking message will be delivered even as he confronts the legacies of two wars long past — Vietnam and World War II — that still are fraught with emotion.

Obama’s first stop on his weeklong Asia trip is Vietnam, where he will be the third sitting president to visit since the end of the war. Four decades after the fall of Saigon, and two decades after President Bill Clinton restored relations with the nation, Obama is eager to upgrade relations with an emerging power whose rapidly expanding middle class beckons as a promising market for U.S. goods and an offset to China’s growing strength in the region.