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SF-24 - 207The folowing is proposed te... for a 4 page 3 x 11 leaflet. ... leaflet will also inclucie pictures, and at least 2 informational boxes. One of these will be divided into 2 colunms. The left giving definitions of war crimes and the right giving examples ofwar crimes. The other box will give information on the soldiers who have already refused to fight in Vietnam. Other material will be added if space permits. The layout will be large print - 2 columns with frequent subtitles.You may soon be sent to Vietnam. You have heard about the war in the news; your officers will give you pep talks about it. But you probably feel as confused and uncertain about it as most Americans do. Many people will tell you to just follow orders and leave the thinking to others. But you have the right to know as much about this war a: anyone else. After all, it's you---not your congressman---who might get killed.## WHY ARE WE FIGHTING IN VIETNAM ?We are supposed to be fighting to protect democracy in Vietnam, and yet our own government admits that South Vietnam is a dictatorship. General Ky, the latest military dictator, is as bad as they come. - Insert here quote about Ky admiring Hitler etc. -General Ky doesn't mean much to us; we're not even sure how to pronounce his name. But the South Vietnamese have lived under him and men like him for ten years. As far as they are concerned, we are fighting on the side of Hitlerism; and they hope we lose.## WHO IS THE ENEMY ?U. S. military spokesmen have often said that their greatest problem is finding the enemy. "The enemy" they say, "is everywhere." The old woman feeding her chickens may have a stock of hand grenades in her hut. The little boy who trails after the America soldiers during the day slips out to give information to the guerillas at night. The washerwoman at the American air base brings a bomb to work one day. "It is impossible says the military. "to tell who is the Viet Cong and who is the people."And so, because the whole Vietnamese people seems to be the enemy, the military is taking no chances. They use tear gas---a weapon only used against civilian populations never against soldiers. They order American troops to fire at women and children---because women and children, after all, are firing at American troops. American fighter planes destroy civilian villages with napalm; American B52s are flattening whole regions. That is why the war in Vietnam is so often called a "dirty war."When the South Vietnamese people see you in your foreign uniform, they will think of you as their enemy. You are the ones bombing their towns. They don't know whether yor're a draftee or a volunteer, whether you're for the war or against it; but they're not taking any chances either.## FREE ELECTIONSThe Vietnamese would dearly like to vote the foreigners out of their country, but they have never had the chance. According to the Geneva Agreement of 1954, there were supposed to be elections throughout Vietnam in 1956, But the U.S. government was afraid that our man in Vietnam, Premier Diem, would lose. In fact, President Eisenw himself admitted that "Ho Chi Minh....80%" (Eisenhower quote). So we decided not to allown any election there until we were sure we could win. Diem set up a political police