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Originally Posted by daswig
where Kerry went wrong was when he claimed that the atrocities were NOT limited aberrations, but were SOP approved by the chain of command. There were atrocities committeed. The VAST majority were committed by the NVA/VC. There were some atrocites committed by US troops, but they were rare. I've never, EVER heard of a documented case of US troops beheading people, as he claimed. The ROK troops did, but not the US troops.
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Policies such as "free fire zones" were standard Pentagon tactics and constituted war crimes. "Shoot anything that moves" sounds pretty bad to me.
Stories of ear necklaces and other such atrocities were common in Vietnam. This is the consequence of placing men in awful, dehumanizing conditions.
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It's interesting to note that Kerry admitted in his testimony to PERSONALLY committing war crimes. Why on earth would we want to elect a war criminal, much less a serial murderer? Please remember, if he was committing war crimes like he claimed, it was murder, and he claimed to do it repeatedly.
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Kerry admitted that tactics such as the aforementioned "free fire zones," amounted to war crimes, nothing else. If you are accusing him of criminality then you must indict the Pentagon's Vietnam policy as well. Unless you blame the soldier and absolve the generals, of course.