My Lai massacre- 40 years later-1/2

[nskaile0010]

PPL like W. Calley should be hanged. When u goto war, ur supose to fight th enemy whos tryin to fight againt u. Ur not supose to go around kill their Kids, mothers, sisiters. Thts the worst thing u can do. And ppl who say Americans r evil and all tht well let me tell u tht the ppl who exposed this massacer, were also AMERICANS. Stop judging the whole nation on few dumbass ppl. (And im not american either, just been living here from last 6-7 years n' find most of the american really nice & caring

[mrmuh2000]

This is the legacy of the so called "White Man". Murderers, and vampires of hate and destruction, along with their "Zionists Jews" criminals and co-conspirators. No immoral deed will go unpunished. Payback is pending, even if it lies beyond eternity, your fate is coming. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Sudan, Syria, Libya, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Guatemala, Chile, Algeria, The Congo, and on and on. This is a small sample of many many countries that experienced those nightmares of misery.

[qlvnch123]

Hue massacre 1968

[Entei2000]

Unless Calley confessed to Jesus he is a sinner!

[Entei2000]

Jesse Ventura said Gulf of Tonkin Incident never happen that just took thousands of US troops to their deaths over nothin!

[Entei2000]

No, seriously what is the movties of all that to complete their view of Peace? Hell no. Bombing Of Hiroshima, Nagasaki. My past Government doing shit in Nanking (Nanjing) Nazis genocide of Jews! Okinawa civillians scare of US force drives lots to their death suicide read about Okinawa Battle! 9/11 I have questions is more than Terrorist attacks to it. lying about Iraq WMD.

[Entei2000]

World Peace and Real Justice for all must be hear!

[Entei2000]

What is this how America spread Democracy! The shame! Why repeat what the Nazis and what the Imperial militarist Japan did? What Communism is bad, tell me which is worser? Even American threaten to drop a Nuclear Bomb on China during Korean war, I'm half Chinese and Half Japanese I think World should not doing crimes in Military!

[aattack619]

I cant really grasp what the big deal is apart from the children dieing. The vietcong hid with cizilians who sympathized with them. To me this is just their tactics being counter acted effectively. The men did nothing wrong they just played by the vietcongs rules

[nskaile0010]

@aattack619 well trhen u need to see their interviews now. even they knw now wht they did was wrong. Lets say if me and u r fighting, and fo some reaosn i decide to kill ur family, Will tht be okey? or u think the fight should just remain between us since our families got nothin to do wid it?

[TheCodFatherPro]

I don't mean to be disrespect-able and I am completely against murder, rape and torture but why does she say an orgy of killing?

[bruceCle]

i hope some sick fuker do this to calleys family n c how he feels.

[riskygjk]

How is it an apology if the victim isn't present? You really want closure, go and face the consequences of your actions. Why don't you go and apologise to the people you did it to? Because you're a spineless piece of shit that charges $50k for an interview. That's why. Burn in hell.

[burtmurdoch]

i'm lovin' this truth, nothing but the whole truth of the attrocities done by americans till date in every war...

[dmeyer2626]

"I gave them a good boy, and they sent me back a murderer."

[Entei2000]

@dmeyer2626 Stuff these who manpuited the public!

[eeelz1]

How is Bob Kerrey a senator??? its a disgrace.

[Blacktulip65]

To the C-company (C stands for Coward as you know) that mass murdered at My Lai: Stop trying to find ways to clean you conscience during this life. You wont find it. As a true coward, you can blow the brain out of a baby and it's mother but you can't take your own life. This you realize every day. Now just think of how you can shine and leave that lowest level of humanity by buying that beautiful gun, put it gently in your mouth and simply pull the trigger. I know you all can do it! C'mon C Comp

[gorgeonthis]

sounds extremly similar to the babi yar massacre (The holocaust of Bullets)....put people in a ravine or ditch and slaughter them so u can eat ur lunch right next to em...doesnt matter if its americans or nazis, its human depravity which is in every culture...its all in how u cover it up whether it gets made into a hollywood film or something similar

[mordimer34]

Calley you are fucking murderer, you can apology million times at it wont change anything you bastard. I feel sorry for you , you going straight to hell you sick fucker.

[lockies]

The U.s army always think they the right things. But , when no one is looking and watching this kind of things happen. U.S is more cruel with chemical weapon to Vietnam and Japan. As a U.s citizen we should just stayed out of these kind of war where we are the cause of it.

[m16a1rifle]

the viet cong massacred civilians as well. and they are far worse.

[W4rl0rd1337]

@m16a1rifle

far worse than killing babies??? And how do u do that??

[m16a1rifle]

@W4rl0rd1337 that's what the viet cong did.

[W4rl0rd1337]

@m16a1rifle lol.. denial is a good thing.. Your contry are really good at that

[RightXBrigade]

I am an active duty United States Marine. I am a libertarian. I have watched "4 hours in My Lai" and cried watching it. I think it is good that we never forget this tragedy. Unfortunately, most Americans don't remember or don't know about it. It is a disgrace and is a reason conscription doesn't work. I've been to Iraq, and am about to go to Afghanistan. I don't agree with either war but I am going as long as my fellow Marines are there dying with no regrets. However, when I get out of

[RightXBrigade]

the Marine Corps I am planning on running for Congress on the platform of Ron Paul of non-interventionism and limited, constitutional government. I will do my part to end wars of aggression and turn the United States into a moniker of freedom and liberty that the founding fathers wanted. Say NO TO WAR and YES TO LIMITED GOVERNMENT! I pray that Thompson and Stanley and those troops who said NO to their commander will be rewarded in heaven.

[TheJ0hnnymac]

the 60's were very confusing,hard,and rough times for the USA. This massacre was brutal and cruel indeed....but no one should really blame us Americans for it,you should blame the officers who ordered the men to open fire.

[OkBystander]

Just watched a great documentary on Russian TV called The Ghost of My Lai. Although it was shocking, I was not surprised. Europeon history is steeped in brutal blood shed, deception and lies against others and even fellow Europeans. I came across this channel by chance on my Freeview box tonight. I cannot wait for the conclusion. Faluja comes to mind.

[jabmolou]

I remember as if it happen yesterday.

Funny how you can remember somethings for ever.

[ammo999]

i study history for GCSE. The my lai massacre was obviously a tragedy and totally wrong but did it kinda help end the war because it change views of the us people??????

[AdasJ]

Wel, even if it did - and I might agree here with you - what's your point? The end justifies the means? It's not that easy.

[ammo999]

true!

[TimeToDwell]

@ammo999 you are an idiot.

[Wawazipata]

The people in USA are worth better.

[Wawazipata]

USA is obviously not intelligent enough to understand that killing innocent people here and there is not going to make them be respected. Sorry but the hole world understood this a very long time ago.

[ssDaNss]

@Wawazipata

don't you mean *whole?

LOL SIT.

[tigers67and69er]

tomp sik sik sik,drink ur flouride take ur vaccine shots ur commie president in process of selling u to world govt but satan waiting for u arms wide open,poor fool.

[TOMP66666]

If America had not involved the war, South Vietnam would have fallen into communism in 1954 and more Vietnamese would have been murdered in cultural revolutions like those launched by Mao in China (20 million deaths) and Khmer Rouge in Cambodia (2 millions)

Total Vietnamese democide by communists:1,040,000 (1975-87) by UNHCR

Executions: 100,000

Camp Deaths: 95,000

Forced Labor: 48,000

Democides in Cambodia: 460,000

Democides in Laos: 87,000

Vietnamese Boat People: 500,000 deaths.

[Sasori6001]

That is a lie amerika could not win this war and read the letters of Ho Chi Minh North Vietnam was better than Southvietnam, Amerika only took part in this war because of their convenciences, souvietnam was dictatorial Vietnam was later a republik dont tell some lies you asswhole

[TOMP66666]

After the Soviet Union's collapse in 1991, the communist regime in Vietnam switched to its big brother Red China and gave up 720 square miles of territory and 11000 square miles of territorial waters in the Gulf of Tonkin to China for its backup to remain in power in Vietnam. There are ten divisions of more than 100,000 Chinese troops disguised as mine workers in the central highlands, who will repeat another Tiananmen Square massacre in case Vietnamese revolt against the communist regime.

[peych13]

how do you know that?

[loglog7]

This chick is a robot...

[lovinglife123]

War itself is inhuman! Children always die!

[galingaling]

humanity first.. always. dont ask why we have guns, dont ask why we have weapons of mass destruction

[sksdav]

This journalist , Hersh, makes it seem like it's a crime to be poor and "uneducated", and he's sending a message that only the poor commit crimes. I would like to ask him the definition of education, and what he thinks of the "educated" criminals on Wall Street that got us into the current economic mess we are in! I'm not saying I condone what happened at My Lai, but it goes much higher than the troops on the ground!

[palmtreesforme]

What can I say. We were wrong. This war should never have started, which was started by Kennedy. Johnson and Nixon totally lied. The Iraq war was wrong and I blame it on Chaney. Bush being an inexperienced president relied on the experienced Chaney for his opinions and it bit Bush in the ass. Governor Dean took a lot of flack for saying that the Iraq war will be another Vietnam. Boy was he right. In a sense we should of never been in Korean War which had 50k americans that died.

[TSFL2]

The book titled "Destroy or Die" tells the complete story of Charlie Company and the My Lai massacre. Before, during, and after.

It's depressing, but it's complete, and everyone should remember this:

There's a REASON why they killed those villagers. Not "excuses".

The villagers were supporting and aiding the Viet Cong. The children would grow up and kill American Soldiers (and RVN soldiers). In fact, they were already doing it.

They just didn't have the grenades when they were shot.

[Blackycd]

are u kiddin me? how in the fuckin world can u excuse this massacred by sayin that. can babys have their own opinions about that? i dont think so. so why the hell did they kill the childrens? they were their own allies. but NO ONE in this world has the rights to kill civils. and remember they didnt just kill. they raped them, they slaughtered them. this is not human

[obsidiansdawn]

@ TSFL2

It's amazing how hypocritical assholes like you will loudly condemn America's enemies when they commit atrocities, but will come up with all manner of lame-ass bullshit excuses for American troops should they commit them. "The soldiers were young"; "They were stressed out"; "The villagers would have grown up and killed Americans". You are so high on your self-righteousness that you rather make excuses for them. Pricks like you give the American people, a truly great people, a bad name.

[sugoiking]

FUCK those fucken Americans, they only care for their people! fuck, an for the mens who killed those villagers at my lai, for no reasons, i hope you should be fucken ashamed of yourself FUCK

[mixerd0822]

As an american I'd like to say that I understand your thinking this way about us.let me tell you this was done by a couple of people that went bad for some reason we dont know!we are not all bad,I served in the army,never saw combat.there are bad soldiers in every army.peace!

[shouavaj12]

U kno how these soldiers say well its war u die u die.They must kno that its not deaf its murder and no matter how many times they say they r sorry it doesn't change any facts. They were still the ones who pull their triggers still the ones who rape 14 yr olds or woman still the ones who cut ppl up burn them shot them no matter wat they were still the monsters that day. And if u did feel sorry i gotta a question y? Y didn't u stop?monster who should be torn apart in hell and torn over again.

[shouavaj12]

And do not tell me that it was jus a fuking order!

[mixerd0822]

are you gonna say that the north or vc never raped or murdered?give me break!there are bad apples everywhere!

[JahobesDaGreatest]

yeah thats the thing... the VC committed massacres rapes and murders left and right, at far higher rates than the Americans... but since we are the Americans we are held to much higher standards.

And frankly, im glad... because if we are not, what makes us any different?

[ctenar1970]

brazenly fabrication to enucleate dirty crime of americans.

[polo942]

WHO are all you ASSHOLES that say YOU WER'NT THERE YOU DONT KNOW....bottom line the soldiers should be shot and have same treatment DONT GIVE ME YOU DONT KNOW WAR either...assholes...BAD BAD and I am an American but NEVER would accept this reasoning for killing those people!!!

[stifftler9]

all the yanks say is 'well thats war'

for gods sake,that isnt war,its murder! they reflect on it without ever thinking how wrong it was and still is,these murderers got off scott free, they still walk around free men and the rest of america accepts that........my god, what sort of country is it over there, what sort of people are you,americans run around the globe ranting and raving about how bad everyone else is who kills innocent people.these murderers walk in almost every american city today

[TuskAmerica]

"THANK GOD FOR 9/11"

It's a damn shame you weren't in one of the buildings scumbag.

[cliffypoo82]

Every single soldier that was involved in this heinous incident deserve to be tortured and beheaded in front of the townspeople of My Lai. Despicable. I am ashamed to be a part of a country that would condone this behavior by their army. It disgusts me to be an American.

[cerebulon]

It disgusts me that you would call yourself an American. You have no idea what these kids went through, and it's really easy to sit there at your arm chair and judge them isn't it? This is the price for engaging in guerilla warfare. If an army can't make a distinction between civilian and soldier, then civilians get killed too. If you want someone to blame, blame those who sent these kids into war in the first place.

[cliffypoo82]

Ohh you're right....it's not the person who shot the gun's fault, it's the person that put the gun in their hands. That makes perfect sense! How could I be so naive.

[whatsinthatbox]

Cerebulon and the likes, you're disgusting. Those "men" MURDERED, RAPED and MUTILATED PREGNANT WOMEN, TODDLERS and the ELDERLY. Since when are that demographics engaged in guerilla warfare? And you dare put blame the on the vietnamese for defending themselves? Like most of americans, you have no moral compass.

You're such a bunch of amoral cretins, no wonder the rest of the world hate you and would like to see the USA obliterated.

[fashionhistorylover]

@whatsinthatbox I know it was sick but this had to have been temporary insanity. These men saw so much death around them that it turned them to sick individuals.

[historatia]

@fashionhistorylover Nonsense! Americans called them "gooks" treated them like sub-humans in a war that cost 3.4 MILLION Vietnamese lives (against about 60,000 US dead. The US forces committed far more than just this one massacre, and it involved mass rape, torture and mutilation (sexual organs cut out for trophies). It involve 500 civilians. The US makes a big deal (with LIES) about the Malmedy incident were a situation led to about 80 US dead. The whole was started with a FALSE "incident".

[historatia]

@fashionhistorylover This is the result of the policy of US exceptionalism where the US will not allow any of its people to be tried by the International Court of Justice (for example). Hollywood, national nacissism and endless smearing of Germans and Japanese since WWII bring this about, and then lead to Abu Graib. Temprorary insanity? Are you telling a bad, insensitive joke? The US did the killing and EVERYBODY ELSE got sick. 3.4 MILLION Vietnamese died!!!!

[Shessy91]

nuke the US for the sake of human ,otherwise, our world will be burned in hell.

[cladam81]

nuking the US is exactly the way to burn the whole world you hate filled idiot. their counterstrikes would be totally devastating.... to everybody

[Shessy91]

WW III would be so cool

[sengoku17]

THANK GOD FOR 9/11

[GoldenBoy7996]

there were good veterans and there were bad ones. it was sad what went on in my lai but dont assume all veterans felt that way remember some were human like us. the US people aint bad its the government.

[limpiomott2]

Why were there no men of fighting age in the village..If this was just an ordinary day in an ordinary place they would have been there. Their abscence speaks volumes. This fact in no way excuses the American action, it might though indicate that the village had closer links to the VC than they admit to.

[abasi2008]

indeed, it is well documented that the village did in fact have close links to the Viet Cong

[westnortheastsouth7]

what is he talking about. you can't find vietcong and then start shooting kids as enermy children,oldwomen and helpess men, this is just like cancer,here it has nothing to do with the young uneducated training sodliers at all , there should be order to kill from the high ranking commander,

[sengoku17]

ur stupid as hell do ur research

[westnortheastsouth7]

look! i am veteran too, i am marine corp, i sever in the front line for two years,not just you, have you ever see any sodlier die in front of you? i do. i understand it well, don't tell me that, if you think they are linked to the vietcong why should we shift the whole village menbers to saigon city and give them a new lives insted you wash them down and let the whole world see what you are committed a crime like that ought to be shame, it is not an easy to kill people.

[lucirz]

there are massacres going on in middle east committed by U.S soldiers too...its just we don't here about it. hell a couple of weeks ago, a U.S aircraft shot missles at a bulding which was supposed to be used by the enemy but it turns out there was no enemy there and they killed civilians instead..

[XIPM3]

the U.S.A is a genocidal warmonge, first the nativeamericans, then the mexicans, the blacks, the phillipinos, hiroshima, nagasaki, vietnam, latin america, god damn genocidal american assholes. i have no respect for vietnam war veterans they are all bloody warmongers and rapists, no better then any scumbag criminal in prison.

[kayfabepro]

You make some valid points — you do — but maybe you should look up the case of Hugh Thompson Jr; who, as a U.S. helicopter pilot, saved as many as a dozen civilians from being massacred at My Lai — even ordering those under his command to shoot the their fellow servicemen if they attempted to massacre anymore civilians. The man was a credit to humanity.

[XIPM3]

too bad theres not more like him.

[Jonchess]

I agree totally.

They kill for the sake of it without conscience-racist and brutal and probably worse.

[wolfbait74]

Its not just the USA that are warmongers, mankind in general are like that.. America is no different, and death in war isn't any more right then murder. I think it was Gen Bradly that said.. Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead."

[XIPM3]

this is true, americns are no more or less bloody than any other society,culture, civilization what have you. HOWEVER it is because america and europe are aptly situated (geographically speaking) these two cultures were given the best and easiest opprotunities to set out and conquer the rest of the world

[brimmster]

I know lets give them reperations...... thats what we should do...I say pay them, they need money, everybody has a price...cash baby, pay them, now lets do it, lets march on washington. ohhh yeah, i heard there is a good sale on meth, you might think about getting a re load

[jonty717]

You would think that the US military would learn something in the last 40 years but it fails miserably let again

March 1968 Vietname Ma Lai - Massacre of 500+ civilans by troops who have snapped under the pressure of booby traps and snipers

Result = No convictions by US tribunial

Novemeber 2005 Iraq Hidatha - Massacre of 30 civilians by Marines who have snapped under the pressure of IED attacks

Result so far - No convictions by US tribunial

F**king Typical..same old story

[eviltreemonster]

Only niggers would do something like this.

[JoeMomma2002]

NO, it was lead by Globalist American White Generals and Globalist American white officers lead by a platoon of Lemmings.

[eviltreemonster]

No, it was niggers, it has to be. Look at the violece those subhuman trash are capabe of. Look what happend in LA in 92. Look what happened in Somalia, in Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, Jamaica, Haiti, Brazil and France. Fucking spooks are worse then animals. Also, 40% of US ground troops in Vietnam were coons so there's your fucking lemmings for you.

[JoeMomma2002]

No.

It was more like 13% (Give or take) This happened in 1968. Your 40% is more accurate around the mid 70s, when the My Lai Massacre became apparent.

Secondly, the events aformentioned are irrelevant. This massacre was caused by an American White General, Ordered by American Whites.

According to the demo of the platoon, only 4 of the 60 member platoon were Black. 2 of which, refused to shoot at civilians and were medevac'd out.

[eviltreemonster]

I stand corrected.

[Piemaster2000X]

You're also a fucking racist. Just thought I should point that out.

[eviltreemonster]

You might say that I'm a racist but I just say that I'm a realist.

[Piemaster2000X]

You use 'subhuman trash' to describe black people, remind me how this is realistic again. People of all races have been fighting in wars for thousands of years, if you think this has all been caused by black people, you are mentally challenged.

[eviltreemonster]

I am mentally chalanged as you put it and all the negroes do is make fun of me all day long. How can they possibly be good people?

[Piemaster2000X]

Well, I don't think making fun of a fucking racist piece of crap is exclusive to black people. I'm pretty white myself.

[eviltreemonster]

Did you not hear my last comment? I'm only racist because the blacks make my life difficult. I didn't used to before.

[kayeatsbear]

eviltreemonster, that still isn't a good enough reason for you to be racist. you need to change your attitude towards certain people, especially blacks. this is ignorance and intolerance on your part.

[eviltreemonster]

You're right. I guess I need to be a bit more open minded. Thank you.

[brimmster]

Should have shot a few more....get rid of some excess ammo

[brimmster]

Just goes to show we can shoot better, than the women and children

[magneticidiot]

brimmster. up to 504 UNARMED men, women and children were murdered. american soldiers raped, tortured and killed young girls. mutilating some of the bodies by carving things in the chests of the dead. these people deserve your respect. how can you be so flippant!? UNARMED civilians. innocent human beings.

you a soldier boy? ready to kill & maim in the name of democracy and Dubya!! i can only hope your comment was anti-american sarcasm. otherwise there is no hope for you

[Garak1]

Stupid boy! Are you on crack boy?

[223fox]

its well seen that you are being well filled up with fluoride-stupid prick.

[Neville6000]

Just goes to show how much like sheep the American public are, doing the same shit over and over again, only now they've degenerated to a brainwashed mass of idiots like you.

[chickensoupz376]

@Neville6000 it isn't americans. it's people. same thing happened with the nazis. blame needs to be placed on individual people for their actions, otherwise you're giving them a stereotype to hide behind.

[publicmario17]

@Neville6000 You're a stereotypical prick and you know it. That's like saying Russians people in general should be blamed for all those soldiers done in WW2.

[OsamaBinForgotten2]

The main stream press has turned into entertainment making major money. The industrial military congressional complex owns the media. It is later than you think. Look at the sky and the poisonous trails, that are repeated everyday. Barium, sodium floride, aluminum, andmore. These chemtrails were listed as exotic bio-weapons 1989.