Oops. John Kerry was right.
The Los Angeles Times reported today that their reporters were able to look at thousands of pages of U.S. Army investigations of Vietnam War atrocities committed by American soldiers. They were placed in the National Archives in College Park, Md., after 20 years, and had sat there unnoticed for years. Seems the Bush Administration sought to yank them back after it got wind the Times was looking at them.
This isn't a rehash of My Lai or the Tiger Force--these are all new to history, if not to the men who committed them or were sickened as they watched. The stories are nauseating. I'm not trying to dump on Vietnam vets for things that happened 35-40 years ago. I bring this up in an attempt to discredit the specific Vietnam "Swift Boat" vets who sought to destroy the candidacy of U.S. Sen. John Kerry in 2004 by claiming that he lied about U.S. Army atrocities and slandered "all" American soldiers. What Kerry basicly said was that atrocities did occur, more than just My Lai, and that they were more common than people wanted to believe.