By: pana on Venerdì 09 Aprile 2004 00:45
spero che green light non abbia lo stesso significato del Vietnam!!!
tutto l articoo lo metto nel topic antiamericano
non sia mai che su cobraf parliamo bene degli usa!!!
Clear all Clippings Ex-G.I.'s tell of Vietnam brutality
John Kifner/NYT Monday, December 29, 2003
Quang Ngai and Quang Nam are provinces in central Vietnam, between the mountains and the sea. Ken Kerney, William Doyle and Rion Causey tell horrific stories about what they saw and did there as soldiers in 1967.
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That spring and fall, U.S. troops conducted operations there to engage the enemy and drive peasants out of villages and into heavily guarded "strategic hamlets." The goal was to deny the Viet Cong support, shelter and food.
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The fighting was intense and the results, the former soldiers say, were especially brutal. Villages were bombed, burned and destroyed. As the ground troops swept through, in many cases they gunned down men, women and children, sometimes mutilating bodies - cutting off ears to wear on necklaces.
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They threw hand grenades into dugout shelters, often killing entire families.
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"Can you imagine Dodge City without a sheriff?" Kerney asked.
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"It's just nuts," he said. "You never had a safe zone. It's shoot too quick or get shot. You're scared all the time, you're humping all the time. You're scared. These things happen."
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Doyle said he lost count of the people he killed: "You had to have a strong will to survive. I wanted to live at all costs. That was my primary thing, and I developed it to an instinct."
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The two are among a handful of soldiers at the heart of a series of investigative articles by The Blade, based in Toledo, Ohio, that has once again raised questions about the conduct of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
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The report, published in October and entitled "Rogue G.I.'s Unleashed Wave of Terror in Central Highlands," said that in 1967, an elite unit, a reconnaissance platoon in the 101st Airborne Division, went on a rampage that the newspaper described as "the longest series of atrocities in the Vietnam War."
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"For seven months, Tiger Force soldiers moved across the Central Highlands, killing scores of unarmed civilians - in some cases torturing and mutilating them - in a spate of violence never revealed to the American public," the newspaper said.
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At other points it described the killing of hundreds of unarmed civilians.
!!!la collana di orecchie vietcong oi credevo fosse un invenzione dei file invece e vera!
altro che fotomontaggio di Kerry al concerto pacifista se facessero un fotomontaggio di
Kerry con la collanina di orecchie Bush vincerebbe sicuro
"io in Vietnam non c'ero !"
ah dovrei curare le campagne dei presidenti usa..si guadagna bene ?