Calley apologises for My Lai massacre

JihadJane said:
Wouldn't it be nice if Colin Powell apologized for his role in the cover-up?
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For the last time, Obama was not born in Kenya and Colin Powell did not have the real birth certificate fed to a rat that had been used to engineer the H1N1 virus that was chopped up and dispersed by chemtrails to a goat that had previously eaten half of Biden's IQ which was itself fed to a Black Panther that was then sacrificed to Satan.


Or were you referring to something else?


JihadJane said:
For example, the US mass murdering Arabs is instantly forgivable...
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Should such a thing hypothetically happen I doubt anyone here would think it forgivable.
 
Travis said:
For the last time, Obama was not born in Kenya and Colin Powell did not have the real birth certificate fed to a rat that had been used to engineer the H1N1 virus that was chopped up and dispersed by chemtrails to a goat that had previously eaten half of Biden's IQ which was itself fed to a Black Panther that was then sacrificed to Satan.


Or were you referring to something else?
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Are you referring to someone else's post? Colin Powell was part of the Mai Lai cover-up.




Should such a thing hypothetically happen I doubt anyone here would think it forgivable.
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It's happened already. Is the mass death of Arab's so insignificant that it's invisible?
 
a_unique_person said:
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.
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Caley also served the bulk of his sentence in his own quarters.

All around the world the US government tries to hold itself above the law and demands others do what it will not. This is just a prime example of that hypocrisy in action.
 
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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This incident shows that there are good americans and bad americans. Several of Calleys men refused to fire on the unarmed ciiviians. Then one group of americans trying to kill them runs into another group of americans trying to protect them has to be a unique situation in the history of warfare. For instance I can't imagine this happening in the Russian army.
 
I Ratant said:
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It wasn't only Romans who would decimate their troops before a battle.
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First time I've ever heard that the Romans would do this before a battle; I thought it was only used as a punishment. Do you have any references?
 
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zooterkin said:
First time I've ever heard that the Romans would do this before a battle; I thought it was only used as a punishment. Do you have any references?
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Not right off the top of my headbone.
It was used to stiffen resistance, and as a punishment.
It was also revived in Libya during the Italian invasion in the 20th Century, against Libyan captives by the Italian Army.
 
The investigation of WJC for unauthorized use of a public servant to polish his nob was a new low in American politics (thanks Republicans) but it's a red herring.

My Lai stands as an indictment against American hubris. It also shows that American jurisprudence is both imperfect and often unfair. The scales of justice are to a degree skewed to those who can hire good attorneys and those favored by their peers.

There might be lessons to learn and valid comparisons to be made between My Lai and Megrahi but in the end wrong is wrong and each must be judged on their own.

Still, the claim of hypocrisy is a fair cop IMO.
 
I Ratant said:
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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The process involved declaring an area. Nominating a time and saying that anyone there after that time would be regarded as enemy.

sometimes (believe it or not) not all Vietnamese got the leaflet of heard the radio broadcast.

We would go to the villages in daytime and give them stuff and be nice. At night we would lie quietly outside the villages and shoot people that had either not heard of or were defying an order that anyone walking around at night is regarded as enemy. These orders would be applied and removed at a great rate. I couldn't keep up with it myself sometimes. Ambushing is very tiring and frustrating on the very rare occasions that someone walked into the ambush it was always nice to find bodies with weapons on them, not so nice to find a farmer or worse...children.

we also would quietly bury the bodies in the field ....Soldiers, civilians, children...even a few dogs that tripped ambushes...so as far as the family ever knew the person just vanished. Unmarked graves...nothing fancy. Sometimes if time was not available we would use existing holes or ditches. Once 3 platoon used a posthole to bury one. Damn hole wasn't deep enough and thier feet were left sticking out above ground. We had a big laugh about that one at the time (he was an NVA regular) fair game.

How could you laugh about something like that? not proud of that one.
 
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My friend had his story published in "Living in America, A popular culture reader". Mayfield Publishing'
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by Glen McCoy.
 
JihadJane said:
Are you referring to someone else's post?
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No, my mind was just somewhere between lunacy and discordance last night.


JihadJane said:
Colin Powell was part of the Mai Lai cover-up.
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The phrase "cover-up" might be giving what was attempted too much credit.


I'd like to throw my own voice in that I don't think we came down nearly as hard as we should of on the perpetrators of the My lai atrocity.


JihadJane said:
It's happened already. Is the mass death of Arab's so insignificant that it's invisible?
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Please demonstrate an instance where a massacre of Arab civilians was perpetrated by US troops that posters here think is forgivable.
 
Travis said:
Please demonstrate an instance where a massacre of Arab civilians was perpetrated by US troops that posters here think is forgivable.
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There are posters on this forum who supported the unprovoked attack on Iraq, the massacre of its inhabitants and the destruction of their country.
 
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JihadJane said:
There are posters on this forum who supported the unprovoked attack on Iraq, the massacre of its inhabitants and the destruction of their country.
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I know of posters on here who supported the invasion of Iraq (hell I'm one of them) but I don't know of any that were in support of massacres and the destruction of the country. Please provide some evidence of support for massacres and the destruction of the whole country.
 
JihadJane said:
There are posters on this forum who supported the unprovoked attack on Iraq, the massacre of its inhabitants and the destruction of their country.
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I supported the invasion of Iraq. I wanted the people free and I wanted zero civilian casualties but I knew that was not realistic. I didn't want the country destroyed or the people massacred. I don't know of anyone who wanted what you claim.
 
I did. I thought that we should kill them all, level all the buildings in the country, and leave. I'm just evil that way. Must be because my father never really loved me.
 
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