"There are thousands of pictures and statements of facts from thousands of different Vietnam vets that these war crimes DID happen."
Thousands?!?!?
Try "18 Tiger Force members may have committed war crimes."
taipeitimes.com
From the dubious left wing internet site you linked.....
On October 19, 2003, the Ohio-based newspaper the Toledo Blade launched a four-day series of investigative reports exposing a string of atrocities by an elite, volunteer, 45-man "Tiger Force" unit of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division over the course of seven months in 1967. The Blade goes on to state that in 1971 the Army began a four and a half year investigation of the alleged torture of prisoners, rapes of civilian women, the mutilation of bodies and killing of anywhere from nine to well over one hundred unarmed civilians, among other acts.....
hnn.us
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It is true that Americans committed some atrocities. My Lai was the worst known. Tiger Force apparently did some also, although the figures are unknown. It is telling that the Toledo Blade report, which won three Pulitzers, used only communist sources for the numbers - and the communist government had much to gain by inflating the reports and the sources had much to lose for not going along with that. So we don’t know how many atrocities were committed, but apparently there were some. There were no doubt others. No Vietnam Veteran has ever denied that atrocities occurred, although few have even known people that participated in any.
The real atrocity deniars are those who call us the atrocity deniers. It is the classic irony one encounters when the left is confronted with the truth about Vietnam.
command-post.org
On April 22, 1971, Kerry testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Kerry spoke of "the 200,000 [Vietnamese] a year who are murdered by the United States of America."....
Kerry said "....war crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."....
Kerry also accused the U.S. military of "rampant" racism and of being "more guilty than any other body" of violating the Geneva Conventions.....
On MEET THE PRESS, April 18, 1971, Kerry said.... "I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed"....
First, the crack investigative unit of the megolopolos media
outlet, The Toledo Blade, generated an article that is highly
contested as to its accuracy (allegations emerge out of thin
air 30+ years after the fact!?!?).
Second, it is an isolated incident covering a scant few
soldiers.
Your dubious "Tiger Force" allegations prove absolutely
nothing. They remain to this date unsubstantiated allegations.
Kerry's testimony had absolutely nothing to do with the
alleged "Tiger Force" criminals. And his war crimes testimony
has been proven to be intentional lies. Every single
investigation into his testimony could not substantiate a
single allegation, but each investigation exposed a littany
of fraud by John Kerry & his cronies at the VVAW. |
