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The Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal calls forth questions over the American War in Viet Nam: "How were captured US troops treated?" and "How did the Americans treat the Vietnamese?"
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In fact, like in any of the dozens of countries they invaded, it was the Americans who perpetrated well-documented atrocities in Viet Nam, both at the individual and mass levels.
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But despite these abuses, the Vietnamese did not reciprocate in kind; instead, they treated captured US troops humanely.
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Candidate in this year’s American presidential elections, John Kerry, who fought in the war, went further in his criticism. In a statement to the US’ Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1971, he said the war crimes committed by US soldiers in Southeast Asia "were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command."
Vietnam News, "The National English Language Daily", June 11 2004
Update: As of 11:36 UTC the link has vanished, and not even a google cache is to be found. A Free Republic post does include the full text.
Not to fan the conspiracy flames but The Corner had linked the same story above. That sent a noticable number of readers there, I'm sure. The time of day I linked was unlikely for server overload (but perhaps likely for site maintenance). No great conspiracy story here, just an item of interest, one of those things that makes you go hmmmm...
Update 2: Problems with the WWW? A disturbance in the force? Commenters report mixed results. Since there are two sites I'm unable to reach today, could there be some common cause?
