Calley apologises for My Lai massacre

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After more than 40 years, the former US army officer found guilty of organizing mass killings in the Vietnamese community of My Lai during the war has made a public apology.
"There is not a day that goes by that I do not feel remorse for what happened that day in My Lai," former lieutenant William Calley told members of the Kiwanis Club of Greater Columbus, Georgia. "I feel remorse for the Vietnamese who were killed, for their families, for the American soldiers involved and their families. I am very sorry."
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When asked if obeying an unlawful order was not itself an unlawful act, he said: "I believe that is true."
"If you are asking why I did not stand up to them when I was given the orders, I will have to say that I was a second lieutenant getting orders from my commander and I followed them - foolishly, I guess," he continued.
Calley's immediate commander at that time was Captain Ernest Medina, who was also tried in connection to the My Lai massacre.
But Medina was represented by famous defense attorney F. Lee Bailey and was acquitted of all charges in 1971.
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http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-...ogises-for-my-lai-massacre-20090822-eudc.html


Interesting that this happens at the same time as the Megrahi debate.
 
It does seem to be pure coincidence. It does have relevance to the Megrahi affair though.

The point is, even if Megrahi was involved in the Lockerbie bomb plot (which is a very big "if"), nobody has suggested for one minute he just woke up one morning and decided to blow up a jumbo jet all by himself. If the "Megrahi is guilty" version of events is true, then he did it under orders, and these orders could have come from nobody but Gadaffi.

And yet Gadaffi gets to shake hands with statesmen and attend international conferences, and everybody is really keen to kiss and make up with him, while the low-level operative gets the jail sentence.

Seems to be the way of the world.

Rolfe.
 
Also the indignation that someone guilty of killing innocent civilians can be let free when he is certain die soon of cancer, but someone guilty of taking part in killing as many or more people is let free with a presidential pardon into only a part of his sentence, while the man who ordered him to perform the massacre is found not guilty.
 
Rolfe said:
*snip* If the "Megrahi is guilty" version of events is true, then he did it under orders, and these orders could have come from nobody but Gadaffi.

*snip*
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I've heard this before. Is it not possible that he was surrounded by sycophants who interpreted what they thought was what he wanted and then independently made it happen?

W. got to point the finger at advisers, so did Reagan...
 
Here in the US there is a cartoonist named Wiley, who writes a strip called Non Sequitur. AUP, you might want to consider subscribing to it, seems to match the way you think.

Locherbie and My Lai: what were you drinking when you made that connection?

Is it available for export from Oz?
 
Darth Rotor said:
Here in the US there is a cartoonist named Wiley, who writes a strip called Non Sequitur. AUP, you might want to consider subscribing to it, seems to match the way you think.

Locherbie and My Lai: what were you drinking when you made that connection?

Is it available for export from Oz?
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Mass murder. It appears that sometimes it is unforgivable, other times it is.
 
Sorry but Americans do not need to apologize for anything we do to anybody... unless we're talking about Democrats getting BJs. Then again, Democrats aren't real Americans, so the point still stands.
 
Wouldn't it be nice if Colin Powell apologized for his role in the cover-up?





a_unique_person said:
Mass murder. It appears that sometimes it is unforgivable, other times it is.
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For example, the US mass murdering Arabs is instantly forgivable...
 
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I note that Scissorhands is strangely absent from this thread......
 
Cain said:
Sorry but Americans do not need to apologize for anything we do to anybody... unless we're talking about Democrats getting BJs. Then again, Democrats aren't real Americans, so the point still stands.
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It was a blowjob being given by an American to an American.

Also?

blowjob != killing people
 
Calley got off very easy. He's one lucky bugger. If he hadn't been stopped by other soldiers (a helicopter crew, if I remember, they threatened to open fire on Calley and his men if they didn't cease firing on the villagers), they would have killed all the civilians. A true black mark on the mostly proud history of the American armed forces.
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
Calley got off very easy. He's one lucky bugger. If he hadn't been stopped by other soldiers (a helicopter crew, if I remember, they threatened to open fire on Calley and his men if they didn't cease firing on the villagers), they would have killed all the civilians. A true black mark on the mostly proud history of the American armed forces.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Thompson,_Jr. a true American hero - just sorry he didn't do some gunning down himself.
 
Sir Robin Goodfellow said:
Calley got off very easy. He's one lucky bugger. If he hadn't been stopped by other soldiers (a helicopter crew, if I remember, they threatened to open fire on Calley and his men if they didn't cease firing on the villagers), they would have killed all the civilians. A true black mark on the mostly proud history of the American armed forces.
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His superior who gave the orders got off even easier.
 
A friend who served in Vietnam say that "search and destroy" missions he was on included the bulldozers that would be used to scoop out the trenches where all the bodies would be buried.
Everyone seen alive in the targeted area would be killed.
 
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