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The Viet Cong did some unspeakable stuff as well, it was a very dirty war.
http://uncensoredhistory.blogspot.co...acres.html?m=1
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You wrote "[Kerry] accused his fellow soldiers of horrible things..." dunderhead. They did do horrible things, google Tiger Force. Kerry was honest about what took place... not that an incessant liar like you would recognize honesty even when it's right under your nose.
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Phantasmal (10-18-2017)
Published: 10/19/2003
DAY 1: Rogue GIs unleashed wave of terror in Central Highlands
QUANG NGAI, Vietnam - For the 10 elderly farmers in the rice paddy, there was nowhere to hide. The river stretched along one side, mountains on the other.
Approaching quickly in between were the soldiers - an elite U.S. Army unit known as Tiger Force. Though the farmers were not carrying weapons, it didn't matter:
No one was safe when the special force arrived on July 28, 1967.
No one.
With bullets flying, the farmers - slowed by the thick, green plants and muck - dropped one by one to the ground. Within minutes, it was over. Four were dead,
others wounded. Some survived by lying motionless in the mud. Four soldiers later recalled the assault.
“We knew the farmers were not armed to begin with,” one said, “but we shot them anyway.”
The unprovoked attack was one of many carried out by the decorated unit in the Vietnam War, an eight-month investigation by The Blade shows. The platoon -
a small, highly trained unit of 45 paratroopers created to spy on enemy forces - violently lost control between May and November, 1967.
For seven months, Tiger Force soldiers moved across the Central Highlands, killing scores of unarmed civilians - in some cases torturing and mutilating them -
in a spate of violence never revealed to the American public.
They dropped grenades into underground bunkers where women and children were hiding - creating mass graves - and shot unarmed civilians,
in some cases as they begged for their lives. They frequently tortured and shot prisoners, severing ears and scalps for souvenirs.
A review of thousands of classified Army documents, National Archives records,
and radio logs reveals a fighting unit that carried out the longest series of atrocities in the Vietnam War - and commanders who looked the other way.
For 41/2 years, the Army investigated the platoon, finding numerous eyewitnesses and substantiating war crimes. But in the end, no one was prosecuted,
the case buried in the archives for three decades. No one knows how many unarmed men, women, and children were killed by platoon members 36 years ago.
At least 81 were fatally shot or stabbed, records show, but many others were killed in what were clear violations of U.S. military law
and the 1949 Geneva Conventions. Based on more than 100 interviews with The Blade of former Tiger Force soldiers and Vietnamese civilians,
the platoon is estimated to have killed hundreds of unarmed civilians in those seven months.
“We weren't keeping count,” said former Pvt. Ken Kerney, a California firefighter. “I knew it was wrong, but it was an acceptable practice.”
Many details of the period in question are unknown: Records are missing from the National Archives, and several suspects and witnesses have died. In many cases,
the soldiers remember the atrocities and general locations, but not the precise dates. What's clear is that nearly four decades later, many Vietnamese villagers
and former Tiger Force soldiers are deeply troubled by the brutal killing of villagers.
“It was out of control,” said Rion Causey, 55, a former platoon medic and now a nuclear engineer. “I still wonder how some people can sleep 30 years later.”
Among the newspaper's findings: Commanders knew about the platoon's atrocities in 1967, and in some cases, encouraged the soldiers to continue the violence.
Two soldiers who tried to stop the atrocities were warned by their commanders to remain quiet before transferring to other units.
http://www.toledoblade.com/special-t...Highlands.html
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Cypress (10-18-2017)
He served honorably in uniform, and based on his experiences he came back and put his name on the line to protest a foolish, costly, and unnecessary war. A war that in hindsight we all know was foolish, immoral, and unnecessary. So Kerry was on the right side of history.
That shows more character than you have ever shown in your message board career of calling women cunts and bitches.
christiefan915 (10-19-2017), Phantasmal (10-18-2017)
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