clifto wrote:

And in actual fact, the only evidence we have that "many American soldiers
did indeed carry out atrocities in VN" is from the lies told by Vietnam
Veterans Against The War.



It just ain't so.

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MITCHELL: We have begun hearings today to investigate the military
policy used in Vietnam which appears to us to foster war crimes. We are
concerned with such schemes as free-fire zones, search and destroy
missions, mass resettlement of peasantry and the so-called "bodycount
mania." Since the Dept of Defense [DOD] acknowledges the use of these
tactics, we wish to illustrate graphically what happens when such
tactics are translated into action. Vietnam has been called the ultimate
model war of attrition where civilians die by the score for every combat
soldier killed.
http://members.aol.com/warlibrary/vwch1.htm

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On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched
a four-day series of investigative reports exposing a string of
atrocities by an elite, volunteer, 45-man "Tiger Force" unit of the U.S.
Army's 101st Airborne Division over the course of seven months in 1967.
The Blade goes on to state that in 1971 the Army began a 4.5 year
investigation of the alleged torture of prisoners, rapes of civilian
women, the mutilation of bodies and killing of anywhere from nine to
well over one hundred unarmed civilians, among other acts. The articles
further report that the Army's inquiry concluded that 18 U.S. soldiers
committed war crimes ranging from murder and assault to dereliction of
duty. However, not one of the soldiers, even of those still on active
duty at the time of the investigation, was ever court martialed in
connection with the heinous crimes. Moreover, six suspected war
criminals were allowed to resign from military service during the
criminal investigations specifically to avoid prosecution.


http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/11/87856.php
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Killing men, women, children and cutting up of bodies:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrick.guen...nnews/stir.htm

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