THE WAR BEHIND ME:
Promoted. Originally posted 2009-01-10 06:34:20 -0500. -- GH
Coming to terms with the reality and the lessons ignored for far too long, which ultimately by ignoring led us into the Deja-Vu of invasion and long term occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the failed leadership exposed!
Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth About U.S. War Crimes Inside, the book, the Army's Secret Archive of Investigations.
Atrocities, on all sides, are only a part of the story of the Tragedy of War and Occupation.
The rest we are once again observing and those serving and sacrificing in these theaters are living, along with their families.
We have never come to terms with Vietnam, Now we have Two More Long Running Occupations to Add to that, We Had Better Learn This Time, and come to terms as a Country and a Military Power, among other Countries!!
February 1968
A month before the infamous massacre at My Lai, a U.S. Army unit in central Vietnam came upon a tiny hamlet where they found nineteen unarmed civilians—women, babies, young children, and an old man. The soldiers’ orders that day were to “kill anything that moves.” They herded the villagers into a clearing and opened fire. Read More
Deborah Nelson is the Carnegie Visiting Professor at the University of Maryland College of Journalism. She was previously an investigative reporter at the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Seattle Times, and Chicago Sun-Times. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting in 1997 and was a project editor on Pulitzer Prize–winning investigations in 2001 and 2002. In 2006, she and military historian Nicholas Turse coauthored a series on U.S. war crimes for the Los Angeles Times. She currently serves on the board of the Fund for Investigative Journalism and the advisory board of the Investigative Reporting Workshop. Listen to the podcast
The Book
The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes
In 2005, Deborah Nelson joined forces with military historian Nick Turse to investigate an extraordinary archive: the largest compilation of records on Vietnam-era war crimes ever to surface. The declassified Army papers were erroneously released and have since been pulled from public circulation. Few civilians have seen the documents. The files contain reports of more than 300 confirmed atrocities, and 500 other cases the Army either couldn’t prove or didn’t investigate. The archive has letters of complaint to generals and congressmen, as well as reports of Army interviews with hundreds of men who served. Far from being limited to a few bad actors or rogue units, atrocities occurred in every Army division that saw combat in Vietnam. Torture of detainees was routine; so was the random killing of farmers in fields and women and children in villages. Punishment for these acts was either nonexistent or absurdly light. In most cases, no one was prosecuted at all. In The War Behind Me Deborah Nelson goes beyond the documents and talks with many of those who were involved, both accusers and accused, to uncover their stories and learn how they deal with one of the most awful secrets of the Vietnam War.
The back reports from Deborah Nelson and Nick Turse from the LA Times in 2006.
Vietnam
The War Crimes Files
By Deborah Nelson and Nick Turse Documents show troops who reported abuse in Vietnam were discredited even as the military was finding evidence of worse. August 20, 2006
Lasting Pain, Minimal Punishment
By Deborah Nelson and Nick Turse 'Americans don't do things like this,' an officer thought when he learned of three villagers' deaths. His shock grew when the soldier convicted continued to serve. August 20, 2006
Civilian Killings Went Unpunished
By Nick Turse and Deborah Nelson Declassified papers show U.S. atrocities went far beyond My Lai. August 6, 2006
By Nick Turse, Deborah Nelson and Janet Lundblad Decades-old Pentagon records show that Army criminal investigators substantiated seven massacres of Vietnamese and Cambodian civilians by U.S. soldiers — in addition to the notorious 1968 My Lai massacre. August 6, 2006
Deborah Nelson, who wrote these articles, is a former staff writer and Washington investigative editor for The Times. Nick Turse is a freelance journalist living in New Jersey. August 20, 2006
Winter Soldier Investigation - Wikipedia
Film-Forward Review: WINTER SOLDIER (1972)
Winter Soldier - VVAW - Vietnam Veterans Against The War
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Into the Present:
Accountability for the Orders Given on Torture and Human Rights Violations by the bush administration and rubber stamped by Congressional Republicans and any Democrats!
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jimstaro
January 10, 2009 - 06:41
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Iraq Memorial to Life
The ongoing loss of civilian lives in Iraq is alarming and incomprehensible. Most Americans do not know how extensive the loss really has been - and continues to be. The Iraq Memorial to Life will present a striking visual image to Americans; it will illustrate the magnitude of the senseless loss of life in Iraq since March 2003.
People from all over this country, and other countries, will personally make over 100,000 markers that will be assembled to create the Memorial to be installed in Washington D.C. early in 2009.
Construction of the Memorial is planned for the lawn near the Washington Monument on the National Mall, with commemorative days scheduled for April following the sixth anniversary of the invasion.
Your help is needed... Consider making the markers for one of the incidents.
Using the menu below, you may:
* Select an incident for which you will make a memorial marker(s).
* Print out the marker template used to make a marker for each person.
* Look at the plans for the Iraq Memorial to Life.
* Sign onto to help build the memorial in Washington DC.
* View related links & learn about other ways you can help the project be successful.
* Please donate at least a small amount & help to make this happen.
How You Can Help Create the Iraq Memorial to Life
"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."
jimstaro
January 10, 2009 - 08:45
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Prosecuting for Torture and More
Famed Prosecutor/Author Vows President Bush Will Be Brought to Justice for Mass Murder
Jan 08, 2009
PART ONE OF INTERVIEW WITH BUGLIOSI
PART TWO OF INTERVIEW WITH BUGLIOSI
We are only one of the hundred and fifty five nations who not only signed on but formed the articles of the charter.
CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE
and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment
With more being found at Wikipedia - United Nations Convention Against Torture and other sources with a simple search.
Accountability Is A Must
Click on the graphic and join those seeking that accountability, for Laws broken, Laws of our Country and Constitution, this time!
"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."
GreyHawk
January 10, 2009 - 10:03
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Nicely done, Jim.
Thanks, as always.
jimstaro
January 10, 2009 - 11:23
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Welcome!!
Before I leave this freakin planet, and sooner or later the damn cigs and coffee will get me, though surprisingly I'm pretty damn healthy at 60 with all the crap I've sucked in from those and work, I Want To See Perp Walks and This Country Better Do Something or It Ceases To Exist except as a landmass with a bunch of evolved backward human animals eating their own.
Speaking of work, if that don't pickup I'll gain Weight for the first time in my life, already getting chubby around the middle!!
"The wise man points to the stars and the fool sees only the finger - and discusses it 24/7 on cable."