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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (422984)10/6/2008 4:19:25 PM
From: Brumar89   of 1576605
 
Only because the WU weren't very competent. Not for lack of trying on the part of the WU.

Now if you want to get into mass killings and wholesale atrocities as a matter of policy, that would be the Communist side of the conflict, which practiced terrorism on the civilian population:

As for war casualties, Rusk discovered that most were caused by the Viet Cong, who follow a deliberate policy of killing civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine—one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died before Rusk's eyes.

"The load of casualties superimposed on the already overburdened hospitals is unbelievable," Rusk concludes. But the U.S. has kept the system from collapsing and will continue to do more. "It has always been our policy to help the sick and the wounded, whatever the cause, and this we are attempting to do in Viet Nam."


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