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To: bentway who wrote (435056)	11/15/2008 2:49:05 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573130

Powerful picture from the days when the press actually went out with the military. I wonder how many shots like that were never taken in Iraq?

To: bentway who wrote (435056)	11/15/2008 2:53:49 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1573130

That pic wasn't My Lai. It was villagers and SV'ese troops fleeing N Vietnamese troops. The napalm that burned the girl was dropped by a S Vietnamese plane by mistake. They were fleeing the North Vietnamese because the Communists routinely used terrorism as a tactic: As for war casualties, Rusk discovered that most were caused by the Viet Cong, who follow a deliberate policy of killing civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine—one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died before Rusk's eyes. "The load of casualties superimposed on the already overburdened hospitals is unbelievable," Rusk concludes. But the U.S. has kept the system from collapsing and will continue to do more. "It has always been our policy to help the sick and the wounded, whatever the cause, and this we are attempting to do in Viet Nam." time.com The girl, grownup, lives in Canada now. She was used as propaganda by the Vietnamese communists, got permission to go to Cuba to study. On a trip, when her plane stopped for refueling in Canada, she and her husband defected.