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i looked at the website the citation of which started this whole thread, which i have kept out of until now.
i found it difficult to determine anything about these people that did not loop back onto the activities of the organization as they were cited in the press (wire services, papers, right think tank proceedings, blogs--mostly conservative).
while it is obvious that websites can be produced cheaply and that there is no requirement for wider support from the outside world, something about these people makes me suspicious--does anyone have any information about these "veterans for 'truth'"?
their line fits directly into the tradition established by the far right since the early 1970s of revisionist histories of vietnam. they might be individuals who are looping themselves for political reasons through the main right narrative--one that looks to erase the history of criminal actions by the americans in vietnam (from fabricating the tonkin gulf incident to agent orange to napalm to massacres on the ground) and replace it with some johnwayne narrative----as if thinking about the history of the veitnam war can be reduced to the assumption that either everyone was a war criminal or no-one was a war criminal--and that within this ridiculous framework, the "honor" of the military can only be salvaged if the idea is floated that no-one was a war criminal.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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