"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Do you think his statements accusing soldiers of widespread atrocities
helped
the attitudes of the people at home?


Do you think that isolating a portion of a person's testimony, out of
context,
and feigning blindness or indifference toward the balance helps you
appreciate
the truth?

How so? Here is the testimony:
----------------

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that several
months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably
discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes
committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on
a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of
command.
It is impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit, the
emotions in the room, the feelings of the men who were reliving their
experiences in Vietnam, but they did. They relived the absolute horror of
what this country, in a sense, made them do.

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut
off heads, tape wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned
up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians,
razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs
for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the country side of
South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and
very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this
country.

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3875422