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Old 08-06-2004, 03:16 PM  
titmowse
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Originally posted by ronbotx
You have the perfect GFY name, all the BS you spew is F I C T I O N. Kerry has trashed Vietnam Vets and admitted to atrocities during his anti-war days with Vietnam Vets against the War. Those are the facts jackoff. Do your homework idiot!
us atrocities in vietnam happened. you need some homework

Killing Civilians.

Powell still has no compunction about killing civilians during war. The lefty media watchdog Fairness & Accuracy In Media points out that in his 1995 autobiography, My American Journey: An Autobiography (New York: Random House, 1995), Powell wrote:

"If a helo [helicopter] spotted a peasant in black pajamas who looked remotely suspicious, a possible MAM [military-aged male], the pilot would circle and fire in front of him. If he moved, his movement was judged evidence of hostile intent, and the next burst was not in front, but at him. Brutal? Maybe so. But an able battalion commander with whom I had served at Gelnhausen, Lt. Col. Walter Pritchard, was killed by enemy sniper fire while observing MAMs from a helicopter. And Pritchard was only one of many. The kill-or-be-killed nature of combat tends to dull fine perceptions of right and wrong."

In his memoirs, Powell also defends the torching of civilians' huts, a tactic his unit constantly employed in Vietnam.


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