Did you know Timothy McVeigh was a Gulf War vet? Does that excuse his role in in the OK City bombing?
(yeah, it's a little late. He's already been executed.)
My understanding is that the atrocities he testified to are common knowledge by now.
Ummm. Then under the UCMJ, he had a RESPONSIBILITY to report such acts. Another failure to carry out his responsibilities.
Statement of Mr. John Kerry
...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of 1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....
WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION
I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to 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....
They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.
richmond.edu
It appears that e is relating WHAT OTHERS TOLD HIM, not his personal observations. As such, it is hearsay testimony and legally inadmissable. |
