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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Orcastraiter who wrote (82488)	7/21/2007 11:07:38 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

report this month in the Toledo Blade uncovers massacres committed by U.S. troops in Vietnam that has gone unreported for 36 years. In a story that has never been told, an elite platoon torched villages, executed prisoners, and slaughtered an untold number of unarmed civilians between May and November, 1967. The platoon was called Tiger Force. A small, highly trained unit of 45 paratroopers, Tiger Force was created to spy on enemy forces in one of the most highly contested areas of South Vietnam: the Central Highlands. For seven months in 1967, they violently lost control and carried out the longest series of atrocities in the Vietnam War. As their commanders looked the other way, Tiger Force troops dropped grenades into underground bunkers where women and children were hiding. They shot unarmed civilians, in some cases as they begged for their lives. They frequently tortured and shot prisoners, severing ears and scalps for souvenirs. After learning about the atrocities a few years later, the Army investigated the platoon for 4 1/2 years, finding numerous eyewitnesses and substantiating war crimes. The case reached the highest levels of the Pentagon and the Nixon White House. But in the end, no one was prosecuted and the case buried in the archives for three decades. * Michael Sallah, national affairs writer for Block News Alliance, which consists of the Toledo Blade and the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. He and his colleague Mitch Weiss have published a series of reports on the Tiger Force platoon in the Toledo Blade titled ‘Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths’ * Tape: Former Tiger Force team leader Sgt. William Doyle speaking with the Toledo Blade’s Mitch Weiss describing the mentality of Tiger Force soldiers. * Tape: Former Tiger Force team leader Sgt. William Doyle speaking with the Toledo Blades Mitch Weiss describing killing farmers as they planted rice. * Tape: Former Tiger Force member Sgt. Gerald Bruner recalling an incident in an attack on a village. Bruner died of cancer six years ago. This was recorded in 1988.