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Originally posted by Joe Citizen
Because they were unarmed.
Court testimony shows no evidence of even one shot fired at U.S. troops inside the village. Also, no Viet Cong were captured that day.
Listen to what the head murderer William Calley said in court: ?Nobody in the military system ever described them as anything other than Communism. They didn?t give it a race, they didn?t give it a sex, they didn?t give it an age. They never let me believe it was just a philosophy in a man?s mind. That was my enemy out there. And when it became between me and that enemy, I had to value the lives of my troops, and I feel that was the only crime I have committed.?
Now that is a severely brainwashed indvidual.
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That severely brainwashed individual had lost a number of his people (he was a Platoon Leader) in ambush without actually ever seeing the enemy. The Batallion his Platoon belonged to had lost a number of people in and around the four villages one of which was My Lai. That is why it was decided to take the villages out. It was not the first nor the last village that was taken out in a "free fire" zone in Vietnam. Senator Kerry engaged in "free fire zones" in Vietnam. PF engaged in "free fire" zones in Vietnam. Our people were being killed in ambush laid by these "innocent civilians". Unfortunately war is about kill...or be killed...be it civilians or uniformed soldiers.
It is civilians killing Americans in Iraq and they are known and being supported by other civilians...and we need to take the gloves off over there.