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- Nov 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: BoomerD
Originally posted by: palehorse74
i spent more than a year downrange, in the infantry, without hearing of, or seeing, any US-related atrocities... so, from my perspective, the man is full of sh*t. but who knows, maybe he saw some things, and from HIS perspective, they were "wrong."
by chance, is his last name Kerry?
Yeah, of course, My Lai and the Phoenix Project were all liberal lies too, right? This kind of stuff is not much different. And Kerry told the truth in the Winter Soldier investigation...our troops WERE comitting atrocities against the Vietnamese people. Only a fool would believe otherwise
http://hnn.us/articles/7162.html
http://hnn.us/articles/7162.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/vietnam/trenches/my_lai.html
http://vietnamwar.com/article.htm?id=158&My_Lai_and_the_Vietnam_War
Often in response or in frustration of atrocities comitted by the enemy, these kinds of things none the less happen, as good soldiers reach the breaking point of what they can take, day after day...seing their friends and teammates killed and maimed. It happens in EVERY war, this one is no different. I hope that what this soldier is saying turns out to be not true. If it is, it's a horrible black-eye on our country, and our troops.
Its a different situation in Iraq than it was in Vietnam. In Vietnam when a soldier went out in the field, other than letters what type of contact did he have with the outside world? In Iraq there are emedded reporters, web blogs, email, 24/7 CNN coverage....
I did not watch the video, but in regards to the part where you quoted him as saying if the child was shot in the head if the dad did not talk... I will have to reserve judgement on that. Unless he had a very small group of tightly knit soldiers that did this sort of thing at their own accord, then it could have happened.