[abner]

Make sure you check out the Winter Soldier web site.

[abner]

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[arasina]

What player do I need to view the videos? I clicked on a link and got a page full of garbage text.

[dead]

I watched the first one. Very, very funny, though I doubt that was the intent.

Kerry's not in that particular video, is he?

[jslade]

bttt

[abner]

Ping!

[GrandEagle]

mark - future reference

[Jaxter]

bump for later

[PeaceBeWithYou]

Ping.

[Lyford]

bfl

[Wolverine]

http://www.rjsmith.com/war_myth.html#cowards

Myth: American Atrocities Were Widespread

If they were they were covered up with extraordinary skill and precision. Only two documented cases of War Crimes can be attributed to American Military personnel. One was the senseless slaughter of civilians in March 1968 at the village of My Lai by the 1st platoon of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion 20th Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, 23rd Infantry Division (Americal). The other was the murder of 16 noncombatant women and children by five U.S. Marines of Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, 1st Marine Division, at a village named Son Thang-4, southwest of Danang, on 19 February 1970. In both cases there was a court martial, and in both cases the accused were found guilty.

In the case of Lt. William Calley, President Nixon stepped in and pardoned him after he had spent three years under house arrest. Why Nixon did this is unknown, but it is beyond belief that he would do such a thing. For the end result is a slap in the face to every Vietnam Veteran who did their job and served with honor by adhering to the Rules of Land Warfare of the 1949 Geneva Convention which set the rules of engagement and expressly forbid the type of behavior exhibited by Calley and the thugs he commanded. They were not soldiers. They were thugs.

But while these egregious crimes have been trotted out at every opportunity by the anti-war movement, very little attention was paid to the horrendous atrocities committed by the North Vietnamese Army and the Viet Cong on their own people. One of the end results of the 1968 Tet offensive was the deliberate roundup and murder of as many as 5,000 South Vietnamese civilians--doctors, teachers, lawyers, businessmen--by the NVA/VC during the periods that they held territory. The most widespread atrocities occurred in the Imperial city of Hue. There alone the Communists killed over 3,000 South Vietnamese. This behavior was not widely reported by the press, and either ignored by the anti-war movement at best, or justified by them as necessary in a socialist revolution.

Additionally, not much of a fuss has been made over the intentional murder of American civilians (including missionaries and USAID workers) captured and murdered by the North Vietnamese. U.S. POWs did not fair any better. Those that were not murdered were systematically tortured by the North Vietnamese. Although these atrocities qualify as war crimes under the Geneva Convention, the lunatic fringe of the radical left condones those acts as "justifiable".

[cyncooper]

Marking to try links later. The server seems to be overwhelmed at this time.

Thank you for providing the information.

[jerry639]

John Kerry in 1971 was an angry man full of hate for society. It is easy to see, from his rhetoric, that he is still full of anger and hate. This man must not become the President. We must work very hard to see that President Bush is reelected in 2004.

[spodefly]

I smell smoke ... the servers have died. Must be getting a ton of traffic.

Mark for later.

[RippleFire]

bump

[RaceBannon]

outstanding!

I have been sending out their address toall my friends, and all my friends friends, and all the raio DJ's and such.

[R. Scott]

I had to log off and come back after a couple hours to calm down.
I was reminded of the Genuine Imitation Soldiers I met in the past. It seems the surest way to make time with a hippie chick was to play the role of the veteran who repented of the sins he was forced to commit by our imperialist warmongering government.
Ten years later I met some of the same type in a PTSD group. All they seemed to know about Viet Nam and war was what they had seen in such great comedies as “Apocalypse Now”. They continually moaned “Woe is me, our government turned me into a killer and I’m so sorry. Pity poor me”.
I hope the GIs in Iraq are spared these … things … imitating human beings.

[Gottwnz]

Why are Democrats down on Republicans about the Veitnam war, when it was the Kennedy and Johnson administrations that got us into the war in the first place and Nixon that got us out?