news10now.com — "The killing of innocent civilians is policy," veteran Mike Blake said. "It's unit policy and it's Army policy. It's not official policy, but it's what's happens on the ground everyday. It's what unit commanders individually encourage." "These decisions are coming from the top down," veteran Matt Howard said.
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romanticstormJan 27, 2008
I'm sure you already know that this conflict is not the first 'illegal' war that America has engaged...My Lai? Grenada?
ariastarJan 27, 2008
I saw my dad die. He died from a gunshot to the head by his own hand. I don't know if I could live if I were the one to pull the trigger on someone else. I'd go the way of my dad.
bassjam5Jan 27, 2008
When ever there is a story the Cons don't agree with they mark it as maybe inaccurate?
Closed AccountJan 27, 2008
Yea and we did not ask you to come to Jerusalem, go back to germany. Pelastine is invaded, of course freedom fighter will attack you if you support the invaders.
xenufieldJan 28, 2008
Funny, I have friends in all branches, mostly Marines, and of the 9 that are in the ME currently, none have ever mentioned seeing 'warcrimes' or other ludicrious claims people treat as common.Infact, the worst thing any of them saw was one saw a friend from basic get killed by a roadside bomb. That f**ked with his head more than any firefight he had been in.
animelionJan 28, 2008
Here is a little drop of reality, IVAW is not about Veterans smearing other Veterans. This event had eight vets attending and was covered because it was a Ft. Drum Chapter fund raiser to help send its members to Winter Soldier II, something especially news worthy, irregardless of political stance.
bertisevilJan 31, 2008
Winter Soldier was a sham. On January 31, 1971, members of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) met in a Detroit hotel to discuss war crimes they claimed to have participated in or witnessed during their combat tours in Vietnam. During the next three days, more than 100 Vietnam veterans and 16 civilians gave anguished, emotional testimony describing hundreds of atrocities against innocent civilians in South Vietnam, including rape, arson, torture, murder, and the shelling or napalming of entire villages. The witnesses stated that these acts were being committed casually and routinely, under orders, as a matter of policy.In April, the VVAW stormed Washington in a week-long protest. At its height, spokesman John Kerry went before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to accuse the United States military of committing massive numbers of war crimes in Vietnam. The appearance launched Kerry's political career. The charges he made shocked and sickened a nation, changed the course of a war and stained the reputation of the American military for decades.But the mass murder of civilians was never American policy in Vietnam. War crimes were the exception, not the rule. And the Winter Soldier tribunal itself -- which John Kerry had helped moderate -- turned out to be "packed with pretenders and liars."----------Recently discovered enemy documents from 1971 show that Vietnamese communists guided the American antiwar movement via meetings between the communist delegations to the Paris Peace talks and American antiwar activists. John Kerry and the VVAW were working toward the exact goals set forth in the communist directives.
Closed AccountFeb 3, 2008
Saddam wasnt an important enemy. We've already established his military was s**t by destroying it.And oil? I think you're mixing conspiracy theories here. The oil companies told them to invade for oil. Israel did it for... well, I never totally understood that one, but it wasnt for oil anyway.
00z003Feb 18, 2008
millions dead in vietnam......... what an atrocity.
ritter99Mar 18, 2008
I read in history books and seen in hollywood movies that this happened. Must be awful hard to stay true and let them kill you (instead of you killing others). Better not go to the army at all or make a runner while it's still time.