Where's my Purple Heart

bblight · Sep 6, 2004

Kaya - I was there - were you? Was your Pop?

Try reading my posts! Given the state of the common soldier and the anti-military stance the main stream media has had for most of my lifetime, do you really believe that any other attrocities besides My Lai could have occurred?

Again - The soldiers committing the My Lai massacre were stopped by other soldiers before they could murder everyone. A common soldier is the one who told the news media when the military hierarchy tried to hush the massacre up. Attrocities were uncommon - there was only one I ever knew of - MY Lai.

Kaya - you're wrong in your assertions.

Oh, yews! Here's Kerry's exact quote:

"(American troops) had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped 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."

I think John Kerry watched a few too many war movies and got confused! Either that, or he's a liar!

kayaman+ · Sep 6, 2004

"Kaya - I was there - were you? Was your Pop?"

No, I'm not old enough, Pops through a blessing in disguise crushed 6 vertebrae playing college football and therefore did not pass the draft physical.

"Try reading my posts! Given the state of the common soldier and the anti-military stance the main stream media has had for most of my lifetime, do you really believe that any other attrocities besides My Lai could have occurred?"

Yes I honestly do.

"Kaya - you're wrong in your assertions."

Assertions? I'm telling you the version of the Kerry testimony I heard and asking if you have anything to refute that besides your personal experience in Nam.

""(American troops) had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped 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.""

This doesn't disprove my "assertions" it's taken out of context and doesn't indicate if he's speaking of things he saw or incidents of which he heard.
Also, you say that you were there so I should believe what you say about Nam. Kerry was also there, why should I not believe him? Especially considering the fact that tales like the ones in that Kerry quote are legendary about Nam.

bblight · Sep 6, 2004

kaya - one more try - then I'll quit; if you want to believe the revisionists, so be it!

Where are the attrocities? What attrocities occurred? Above and beyond My Lai, find me an attrocity!

They just didn't happen.

You can believe what you want, but attrocities were far and few between in Vietnam.

Kerryu spent four momths in country - "FOUR MONTHS" - and then he comes back to the world and testifies as though he saw all of these things.

What fries my ass is that no one _ NO ONE - has come forward to support and verify Kerry's accusations, but all of the good little party troops fall into lock step and tout the Kerry line as though it wwere a fact.