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Titolo: Altro che Saddam...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3206180.stm
US shuns Vietnam war claims 
The US Defence Department says it will not reopen investigations into
alleged Vietnam War atrocities, despite new claims.
According to an investigation by the Ohio-based Toledo Blade
newspaper, the elite Tiger Force unit of the Army's 101st Airborne
Division killed hundreds of unarmed villagers over seven months in
1967.
Soldiers told the newspaper they had severed ears from the dead,
stringing them on shoelaces to wear around their necks, and had
dropped grenades into bunkers where children and women were taking
refuge.
But a Pentagon statement said the case was more than 30 years old and
there was no new or compelling evidence to justify reopening it.
An earlier investigation had been closed in 1975, even though it had
established that members of the unit had committed war crimes.
The Blade for eight months reviewed thousands of classified army
documents, national archive records and radio logs and interviewed
former members of the unit and relatives of those who died.
Based on interviews with former Tiger Force soldiers it estimated the
unit killed hundreds of unarmed people.
In one incident, two partially blind men found wandering in a valley
were shot dead, records show.
Platoon members had opened fire on 10 elderly farmers, killing four,
on approaching a rice paddy.
"We didn't expect to live. Nobody out there with any brains expected
to live. The way to live is to kill because you don't have to worry
about anybody who's dead," William Doyle, a former Tiger Force
sergeant now living in Missouri, told the newspaper.
Tiger Force, a unit of 45 volunteers, was created to spy on North
Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam's central highlands.
When the army investigation of the unit's alleged atrocities took
place only three members were on active duty, said US army spokesman
Joe Burlas.
The only way to prosecute the soldiers was under court-martial
procedures, which apply only to active military members, he said.
Commanders, acting on the advice of military attorneys, determined
there was not enough evidence for successful prosecution.
Legal experts say former platoon members could still be prosecuted or
sanctioned by the army but that this is unlikely because of the time
that has elapsed.
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Saddam ha usato armi chimiche, repressione indiscriminata, esecuzioni
di massa
ecc. sui cittadini di un paese che si sono ribellati al suo dominio.
Lo stesso hanno fatto gli Americani in Vietnam.
La differenza e' che il numero di vittime (4 milioni e passa nel caso
Vietnamita) non sono nemmeno comparabili.
E dietro alle azioni Americani c'era un'ideologia razzista
assi piu' definita (Il generare Westmoreland, comandante in capo
delle forze USA in Vietnam, ha esplicitamente detto che tanto
"per gli orientali la vita umana vale poco")
La differenza e' anche che agli USA non passa nemmeno per la testa
che il Genocidio Vietnamita (e lo e' stato, c*&zo.   Ancora oggi
ci sono bambini, in quel paese, che incappano sulle mine messe li' dai
"liberatori" di allora) meriti perlomeno una richiesta di scuse.
Perfino Clinton, che protestava contro il Vietnam quando era studente,
ha espressamente detto che NON avrebbe chiesto perdono a quel paese.
Ora, secondo voi, se la resistenza Irakena sara' efficace come quella
dell'NLF,
cosa succedera'?
Visti i precedenti, c'e da temere ben peggio di Saddam.

Visti i precedenti, c'e da temere ben peggio di Saddam.
Se lo dici tu... :)))
*ROTFL*
-Stefano

 controllata da Hanoi e che voleva aggredire il Vietnam del Sud :)
Cosa di cui tu naturalmente hai le prove, vero?

Cosa di cui tu naturalmente hai le prove, vero?
Che i vietcong venivano dal Vietnam del Nord e che erano armati con
Ak47? :)  Credo tu possa trovare le prove su qualsiasi libro di storia
:)
-Stefano

 Ak47? :)  Credo tu possa trovare le prove su qualsiasi libro di storia
Eh gią, nel Vietnam del sud Van Thieu godeva infatti del sostegno delle
masse. E i VietCong erano un'invenzione di Hochiminh.
Vedi, lo scemo non sei tu; sono io che sto a perdere tempo a rispondere a
gente siffatta.

Vedi, lo scemo non sei tu; sono io
Probabile :)
-Stefano