My Lai massacre- 40 years later-2/2

[mrmuh2000]

you reap what you saw....... All the terror they unleashed around the world in our name, will come back and haunt us a million fold.

[qlvnch123]

no, vietcong and north vietnam were fighting for the cause of international communism, the head being the USSR. They are not nationlists as they have no country, only international communism. What proof do you have to even suggest that South Vietnamese were traitors of their country? Why do you think millions of Vietnamese people would leave their country from 1975 till today? Before, Vietnamese never immigrated to seek a better life, why now? The cause, communism.

[qlvnch123]

Hue massacre 1968

[CapitanoGUC]

@qlvnch123 do not excuse one massacre with an other on .....:-/

[qlvnch123]

@CapitanoGUC I am not making an excuse, I am merely reminding others of a massacre which is less well known but is as atrocious

[CapitanoGUC]

@qlvnch123 ok, you are right in this - and there are still many more (smaler once) less known which were comitted by the americans and , i guess, by the vietcong which saw in this the only way to tread trators on the part of there country which was occupied by foreign forces ....

[qlvnch123]

@CapitanoGUC

Vietcong were traitors to their country, they have no country, they only fight for international communism.

As for the Americans, they are traitors to their allies, not just to South Vietnam but to many others.

[CapitanoGUC]

@qlvnch123 what ???? - you are insane ..... - the vietcong was fighting for the only legitimat goverment of vietnam. Ther never was a south vietnam and a nord vietnam - there was only vietnam and the occupied zone. in this zone you may found a few traidors of there own country but as well manny which passed information to the freedomfighters in the north. :-/

[dparr100]

US  MILITARY = MENTALLY RETARDED BURGER FLIPPERS.9/11 LOL.

[markdwitt]

Holy cow! She is an idiot, not a journalist! Assume any civilians could be enemy combatants means "watch you back" not "kill everybody". We don't even kill the enemy most of the time, only when they are shooting at us.

[creativeengineer]

They failed to report that some of those terrorists satisfied their sexual desires by raping little girls and even babies in My Lai, before shooting them. One wonders how many innocent young children these rock spiders molested after they were released into back into the community. The American do-gooders who lobbied for their freedom are accessories to the crimes. Justice would be to permanently incapacitate or neuter, or better still, electrocute the war criminals.

[crocfme]

Cut him right off at the first mention of Bush's illegal war and torture,,,

What the Nazis used to call "media control".

[prokrastinatorSF]

@crocfme

Dude have you ever seen or read anything from DemocracyNow? They are the most out-there, outspoken, anti-Bush, anti-war news organization there is. I know it sounded a little odd when she cut him off there, but go to the DemocracyNow website and you will see they DEFINITELY do not try to cover up the Bush war crimes--they very loudly report them.

[Vamavid]

3:50 Sounds liki the same MO as in Fallujah

[thorsmitersaw]

Everyone throws around the term hero a lot nowadays. People pretty much call anyone in a uniform a hero. But this Hugh Thompson Jr., there... my friends... was a real hero

[XBhaalSpawn3X]

Do these two have a degree in how to use overly excessive language?

They take a minute to say (what should be) one or two sentences.

Good topic to talk about tho.

[m60a3ttsmilwaukee]

when airforce or navy bomb a city off the map no one cares...if artillery whould have shelled off the map no one would care!...but if army and marine infantry kill communist rice growers feeding enemy viet cong...oh the war crimes!...lets hype to sell more newspapers!...pro-communist reporting!

[peych13]

f u

[THEBURNINGTIGERS]

@m60a3ttsmilwaukee A muslim could make the same justification for 9-11

[m60a3ttsmilwaukee]

israeli war crimes in 1967 and 1973 wars covered up by jew reporters...uss liberty us navy deaths by israeli mirage jets 1967!

[WorldIslamicOrder]

The Americans are bloody cowards.

[stevenc08]

speak for yourself

[stevenc08]

War brings out the beast in all of us. Since none of us were their or ever in that type of situation, it is easy to see the wrong in it. But be in the shoes of 1 of those soilders and chances are you'd have acted as they did. World history has countless My Lai tragedies. History shows the victims are everyone in volved in such acts.

[RPenta]

Bullshit. The reason this stuff happens is that the beast is brought out in us by the government; in this case and countless others.

[stevenc08]

nobody can bring something out of you that is not already their. the governement sends you to war. they can't make you kill anyone. you do that out of fear, a desire to stay alive and because you were trained to do it. but in the end the actions you take are on your consience.

[MrJMontrose]

"the horror...the horror"

[Davidrkw1]

There is no excuse for the soldiers actions. They raped and murdered women and children, they are criminals. Orders or no orders they should have been executed. At least it would have shown the world that the US does not condone what happened.

[TheJay9002]

@Davidrkw1 I agree, however your linking of "women and children" is bullshit. Get down off the white horse women are adults too they can look after themselves.

[Davidrkw1]

@TheJay9002 So long ago I wrote that comment It's just that women and children are generally thought of as more vulnerable and less threatening than men, so when they are killed in this way, it seems even harder to justify.

[barbaralee15]

Interesting point about the black and Latinos shooting high but the white boys being more deadly with their weapons. Very interesting comment on American inbred violence.

[BLP173rd]

What happened wasn't right, but you take orders, from the higher higher. This fuck has never worn jump boots. Don't judge people, unless you were on the ground with them....

[shouavaj12]

U mean hersh yes he was!

Hes vetran of this war.

And when he visited his ex-friends C company the my lai massacers.

He ask wat did u do over these months his friend told him that they murder everyone at pinkville.

And his first reaction was these no good sons of bitchs.

[TheAremo]

Sorry Mate as an ex Paratrooper I can tell you your talking crap. They were simply not professional soliders but a rabble, ill disciplined Army.

Also weak willed. If an Order is illegal it's invalid, so to refuse it will not affect you higher up the chain.

[hellcla5]

@TheAremo is that so? you didnt serve in vietnam so i think ur talking crap

[TheAremo]

@hellcla5

Okay please explain yourself.

I don't see the difference between the Waffen SS in the Soviet Union killing innocent peasants and these U.S Soldiers killing innocent peasants in My Lai?

Are you saying their actions are something to be proud of? Something to boast to their grandchildern about? Are they in a accord with the Geneva Convention ? I don't think so. IMO

[hellcla5]

@TheAremo or prehaps british paratroopers killing unarmed civilians in derry 1972, with no attempt by the british government to prosecute anybody? were their actions orders given to them by a superior officer or were they just an undisciplined rabble and weak willed as you yourself observed, in fact id be so bold to observe that events such as this appear in all conflicts they are simply unavoidable, imagine how many such instances took place in ww1 or 112 that were simply unheard of

[WillF48]

that fella knows his stuff, they should have let him keep talkin

[8data]

the best democracynow! posting on youtube

one high quality journalist, amy goodman, interviewing another high quality journalist

happy 1968 reunion, UCB radicals

[Neville6000]

Good job of uploading, IWantDemocracyNow.

[Quietlydoesit]

It is about time that America tried a little communism in their own country. Let your population have healthcare for a start. Let the taxes raised be spent on facilities for civilians and not on weapons for the military. You have nothing to fear from communists it is your own hyper capitalist robbers who should be feared.

[iurez]

terre haute is not above indianapolis though, it is southwest of indy. Rev wright was speaking inconvenient truths, or Would God bless america and all of her actions regardless of the inhumane acts that have been committed under the shade of the stars and stripes,

[wwwPNACATTACKcom]

Thanks a lot :D

It was excellent