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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said. “In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said.

There is no other interpretation to this passage but that he approves of the abuse toward Vietnam veterans--cursing at them, spitting at them, calling them war criminals--and that the same behaviors need to be repeated with Iraq vets.

Beyond despicable. But Hersh is only being honest; there are a lot of people on the Left who think this way, but they know to keep their mouths shut.

55 posted on 11/01/2006 3:41:00 PM PST by denydenydeny ("We have always been, we are, and I hope that we always shall be detested in France"--Wellington)
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To: denydenydeny
he approves of the abuse toward Vietnam veterans

Considering that he was one of the major enablers of that sort of thing, it's not surprising. He even predates "Jingus F'n Kerrey"

95 posted on 11/01/2006 5:13:17 PM PST by El Gato
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