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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (607198)	8/21/2004 2:08:22 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

As I recall, during the time (1967-1972) when I was stationed in Thailand, I have often read in the news of wanton killings by American forces in Vietnam and of village thatch-houses being burned to the ground and livestock destroyed and chickens scattered, and also news of American prisoners being killed by landmines, poisonous 'two-step' snakes, punji-sticks and what not, and p.o.ws tortured in the most cruel ways imaginable by their Vietcong captors. Years later, the My Lai Massacre for which Lt. Cahill was crucified, revived most of these images. So, when I read that Kerry mention burning of villages & etc, his words somehow rang a bell in my mind, and so I did not proceed to indulge in lawyer-like hair-splitting and nit-picking as much as others apparently did on this issue. Well, I suppose Kerry may yet furnish the answers to the questions so many want answered. We'll see. BTW, were you and Mr. Harris 'Nam vets? ================= PS. By the way, some Americans profited from the Vietnam War by smuggling heroin and hashish home in the emptied-out torsos of their dead comrades. The smuggling ring was busted in Hawaii where the bodies were retransferred to the mainland. I guess Kerry himself did not know this. How could he possibly know everything except in general terms perhaps. I also heard of American p.o.w.s being nibbled by mice: typically, a cage full of mice was firmly placed over his head and shoulders with no way for the rodents to escape. The pow was handcuffed and legcuffed. In due course, the mice fed on the p.o.w's eyes, lips, ears and nose as if these body parts provided the softest or tastiest morsels. And a good number of GIs spent much of their time in tents waiting for action or to be assigned. They whiled away the time playing cards, drinking beer and smoking cigs, including jacking off, sometimes with the help of the warm monsoon raindrops that fell on their dicks or screwing barmaids in town and fathering unwanted children. And to break the quiet monotony of the night, they would often blaze away a la "Dutch" and his comrades in "Predator I". By the way, most of the Americans that saw action in Vietnam, if I am not mistaken, were blacks from California and most of the Vietnamese-American orphans there were semi-blacks!