To: LindyBill who wrote (93372 ) 4/14/2003 3:22:29 AM From: marcos Respond to That's the 'i was just following orders' defense ... sure Phoenix was 'effective', you kill every living thing and guaranteed the place will be 'pacified' ..... here's a bit on Speedy Express - "Death is our business and business is good," was the slogan painted on one / 43/ helicopter unit’s quarters during the operation. And so it was. Cumulative statistics for "Speedy Express" show that 10,899 "enemy" were killed. In the month of March alone, "over 3,000 enemy troops were killed … which is the largest monthly total for any American division in the Vietnam war," said the division's official magazine. When asked to account for the enormous body counts, a division senior officer explained that helicopter crews often caught unarmed "enemy" in open fields. But Vietnamese repeatedly told me that those ‘enemy" were farmers, gunned down while they worked in their rice fields. ' - chss.montclair.edu world wide liking for our individual soldiers overseas, as compared to the reaction to those from other countries. ' ..... you seem to have a deep need to believe this, which is probably understandable given your conviction that the planet should be ruled by fiat from the backrooms of Washington ..... still though, you should maybe get a little feedback on how fantastically arrogant that sounds to the Rest of Us
