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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (533304)	1/31/2004 4:10:25 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (2) of 769667

You tend to be a tad naive Ann.....My Lai was not the only atrocity in Viet Nam, it was the only one in which a court martial and trial were held. It was common place for our GI's and Marines to cut the ears off dead enemy soldiers, sometimes for temporary souveners and sometimes to terrorize the enemy. Bob Kerrey story, told by his own men and himself, revealed that they cut the throats of two grandparents and their grandchildren at the outside edge of a little village. You may call that self defense but I can't. Then the versions of the remainder of the episode get hazy, Kerrey says thinks took fire from the village but other members of the group said they simply went into the village and killed everyone. They never got the guys they were looking for. We are long past the John Wayne war movies were we were always so honorable. Steven Ambrose, the historian, documents the routine killing of prisoners by our guys in Europe. Funny thing is when he interviewed former GI's around 90% knew or witnessed the killing of POW's but only 30% admitted doing it themselves.

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