Four Hours In My Lai (3 of 7)

What we did to the people of Vietnam was WRONG,and yes,there were many war crimes committed there by the US.But,this is nothing compared to what we are doing in Iraq today.What goes around,Comes Around...ONE will REAP,what one has sown...

Very, very true, and an excellent point. What a soldier is capable of in the heat of battle is not the same as what his conscience and morale can handle.

Varnado Simpson eventually killed himself, just like he promised he would.

hivelocity100: Sssssh! You'll upset the little European kiddies with their brains full of pop music, their hearts full of hatred and their ears full of lies.

For the record, I have been to Vietnam since the fall, and I am impressed at how little resentment is harbored by the people. War is ugly, and guerrilla war is terribly ugly. Glad we lost so both sides could stop wasting young men's lives.

You're a fucking idiot and an embarrassment. Stalin murdered 60 million people. Mao murdered 40 million. These are documented facts.

How many did Lyndon Johnson or George W. Bush kill?

Again, go fuck yourself, you're a fucking idiot and a liar and likely a military faker as well.

Bullzeye95 :You call me an embarrassment for for telling the truth.I guess it's true,the truth hurts..You make excuse's for the assholes that murdered innocent unarmed people.Try to make an excuse,if a soldier did this to a member of your family,,,In Vietnam,we were told to kill civilians,and prisoners,by our CO's...you go fuck YOURSELF

What truth? You said that the US has committed more murder and atrocity than any other country in history. That's a straight up fucking lie, a total and unmitigated piece of propaganda bullshit that's just not true.

I never said the US hasn't killed a lot of innocent civilians. In fact, we do it every day, surely thousands each year.

That doesn't even begin to come close to the number of innocent people murdered in cold blood by Communist Russia, China or Cambodia or Nazi Germany. Look it up.

Another totally clueless Brit trying to tell America how to run it's business.

Our "warring mentality" didn't make those GIs kill civilians.

They were minimally-trained draftees being forced to fight and die in a losing guerrilla war against a country and a people they didn't know or care about while their own country hung them out to dry.

THAT is what made them into monsters.

You're a "student". Ever heard of the Zimbardo prison experiment? Go look it up. Everybody's capable of atrocity.

America has supported or has directly been at war with 19 3rd WORLD countries since WWII.

That's pretty suggestive of a nation at war with the world. Oh wait, is there another lab study you'd like to pull out of your thick head to explain that those acts, were in fact, not acts of war, but love.

" tell America how to run it's business"?? u serious? It's that kind of blind arrogance with which u misconstrue the simplest of statements that has ruined your reputation in the world.

So true, VW. Thanks for that...lol!!

Sadly, that's true. As a people, the US needs to realize that we are allowing our govt to fulfill their sick fucking agenda with the armies that are meant to be our protection. It's so sad, really