Report: Unsealed files detail U.S. atrocities in Vietnam war

AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 8/7/06 | AP

[driftdiver]

Yet another attack on America from within.

[Darkwolf377]

320 wartime atrocities...137 dead. -Seventy-eight additional attacks on unarmed civilians that left at least 57 dead, 56 wounded and 15 sexually assaulted. -141 incidents in which U.S. soldiers tortured civilian detainees and prisoners of war.

What was the crime rate in the US during that period?

Sorry to sound cavalier, I can't get worked up about 320 atrocities over that many years. These are horrible things, yes, but considering the scope of the war and the MILLION PLUS who were slaughtered AFTER these horrible US soldiers left, I can't get too worked up.

[NormsRevenge]

War is hell ... and lest we forget it, folks like the MSM do their darnedest to remind us of this at every opportunity.

[pissant]

Too bad one of the atrocities was to burn the LA times to the ground. Oh wait, they are self imploding on their own. Treasonous leftists, all.

[moonman]

Didn't CNN come out with this sh!t a few years back and had to apologize to America for the madeup stories by a couple of their reporters?

[Hoodat]

Obviously Bush's fault.

[Publius6961]

Judging any war against the standard of perfection is a fool's errand. That an increasing proportion of those fools are military only makes the reality sadder.

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Would be interesting to compare those statistics with the violent crime rate per 500,000 men of similar age group back in the states during those same years.

[mountn man]

Its from ASSociated Press. What do you expect?

[Chi-townChief]

I wonder how many Ketchup Boy got in on like "Jenghis Khan."

[elcid1970]

As a VietVet I'm really getting tired of being called a warmongering babykiller. Would like to reply in kind except,

These lefty abortionists have no babies ar all.

[NormsRevenge]

Didn't CNN come out with this sh!t a few years back and had to apologize to America for the madeup stories by a couple of their reporters?

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Time flies, huh?

We live in a renewable/recyclable age , I reckun

[pissant]

It's the same they are doing to the troops today. The filthy hippies in charge of the MSM's newspapers are reliving their utterly worthless youth.

[pyx]

Next time someone has to do a John Kerry, use the washroom and light a match !

[dfwgator]

So when will they do a study of Viet Cong atrocities?


* crickets chirping *

[ApplegateRanch]

-Seven civilian massacres from 1967 to 1971 that left at least 137 dead.

That is a pretty poor showing for "massacres".

How does that compare to BJC & Reno's record in Waco?

How about if we toss in Ruby Ridge?

Can we also count various acts of rape & Arkancide before & during Billarie's presidency?

How about the Balkans Tantrum?

Oh, yeah, the Afghanistan Ejaculation should be in there, too.

Our troops seem to have made a pretty poor "atrocity" showing, compared to what their future CIC achieved almost singlehandedly.

[razorback-bert]

I await their reporting of Sherman's rape of Atlanta.

[VOA]

Report: Unsealed files detail U.S. atrocities in Vietnam war

Don't hold your breath for a real investigation/expose of all the
atrocities done by the Viet Cong.
E.g., all the South Vietnamese civilians rounded up and executed
as an integral part of the Tet Offensive.

You just don't hear much MSM talk about that.
But then the MSM usually doesn't hang out the dirty laundryy of their
fellow-travelers.

[Jim Noble]

There's nothing to this crap about civilian casualties. Nothing.

In April of 1945, we were doing 100,000 women and children at a pop.

War is bad. You shouldn't do it unless you must.

But when you must, you should kill relentlessly until the enemy collapses AND SURRENDERS.

Does anybody even remember what "surrender" means?

Surrender means that your commanding general can walk unmolested through the streets of the enemy capital while the natives avert their gaze lest they give offense.

We are a long, long way from victory.