03-23-2003, 03:58 PM
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Too lazy to set a custom title
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Punta Cana, DR
Posts: 29,913
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Originally posted by FadeEP
It happened in WW2, it happened in Korea, it happened in Vietnam, it happened in Somalia, it happened it Desert Storm and it is happening now. Rules or no rules..we cannot expect brutal and evil regimes to follow guidelines in a time of war.
Rules of war sounds like an oxymoron..
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And in Vietnam:
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The company of soldiers that carried out the massacre was no different from any other army unit in the region struggling in the aftermath of Tet. As James S. Olson and Randy Roberts put it in My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (1998), ?It was a time of anxiety and second guessing?anxiety for the American soldiers in the field and second guessing for journalists and many Americans at home? (page 15). Charlie Company, First Battalion, Twentieth Infantry, became increasingly frustrated and angry. They could not see their enemy?the Vietcong?s guerrilla forces?but they did see villagers. The distinctions blurred: anyone could be the enemy. An early morning raid on the villages of Son My on March 16, 1968, was planned to rout a Vietcong stronghold. But the company found no Vietcong, only villagers. There was no sign of the enemy, only old men, women, and children. The company opened fire on them and organized mass executions. In all, between four hundred and five hundred Vietnamese were killed.
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http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/hist...frameintro.htm
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I know that Asspimple is stoopid ... As he says, it is a FACT !
But I can't figure out how he can breathe or type , at the same time ....
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