> > Can you post any evidence that U.S. soldiers > > tortured and raped any babies in the Vietnam > > conflict? > > Angela Mailander wrote: > I won't convince you of the facts of life and war > regardless of what evidence I bring to bear on the > subject, but I am certain of my facts here. > Only one soldier was convicted of war crimes in Vietnam - William Calley. Do you know of any others? John Kerry didn't mention any at the Winter Soldier testimony.
An Introduction to the My Lai Courts-Martial: By Doug Linder http://tinyurl.com/p75b > How will you train men to kill without making them > brutal? You can easily make ordinary people torture > other people in laboratory settings. > But you said American forces were guilty. > This has been shown again and > again. In war time it is something that just happens > routinely. It begins with soldiers going into battle > because they fear their own officers more than they > fear the enemy, and it ends with soldiers going crazy > and killing and raping anything that comes their way. > This is the reality of war and everyone who has seen > war understands that. I have personally seen a soldier > rape a baby. I have also seen a soldier take a baby > by the feet and dash its brains out. These kinds of > things are normal and routine in a war. > > > Angela Mailander wrote: > > > Soldiers will rape babies and commit other acts of > > > torture and wanton killing. That's not true of > > > every single soldier that ever lived, but it is > > > true of most soldiers regardless of nationality > > > or racial origin.
