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To: unclewest who wrote (119824)	11/17/2003 5:39:16 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi unclewest; Re: "And how about the atrocities they committed against American GIs." There were a lot of horrendous atrocities committed by the Vietcong that go completely unmentioned in the history books. For example, on August 15, 1967 they machine gunned the citizens of the peaceful town of San Diego, California. Nearly 70 US citizens were killed that day, but do you hear about it anywhere today? And during the month of October of 1972 they dropped nearly 25 thousand bombs on towns in Western Oregon, killing untold hundreds as well as starting several forest fires and backing up traffic for miles. We've completely repressed our memories of the tragic fate that befell US civilians in the hands of the Vietnamese Communists. There was no question that we were fully justified in massacring their civilians. They did the exact same thing to us. Hey, we were lucky we got through that war with our capital largely undamaged. Of course we had to paint the Presidential living quarters white in order to hide the smoke damage from when the Vietnamese tried to burn it down. -- Carl

To: unclewest who wrote (119824)	11/17/2003 5:40:06 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"The demos are on a search for the guilty so they can punish the innocent. " This is an illogical statement, imo. You may feel that democrats are going after the wrong people, but they are hardly interested in going after the "innocent". What I think you might be trying to address are the relative weights of atrocities- but I'm not sure one wants to justify small atrocities on one's own side, merely because the other guy does worse. That doesn't lead to a very good place. I remember the movie Apocalypse Now made that point quite well. Now you might disagree with that, but it makes no sense to say someone wants to punish the innocent, in this context.