Reply #23: Those Who Believe It Didn't Happen Still Will Feel That Way

[KharmaTrain]

Look at the Slime boaters...they've lived in denial about a lot of the real history of Vietnam...My Lai, Agent Orange and so on...30 years on...despite all the evidence and nothing is going to change that meme...cause to admit it is refuting their entire existance.

I listen very carefully and also consider the source. And to say that no one believes something bad happened at Haiditha is not what the corporate media is astroturfing. If anything, it's rushing to conclusions by running the same pictures over and over again...you can't deny something happened there, but by who and under what circumstances? You don't know, neither do I...the facts haven't been totally revealed and to be definitive at this point is just as bad as being dismissive...thus the "alleged" fits for the meantime. History will remove that label when the full scope of this scandal is revealed...and that could take months and even years. So until there's an indictment, trial and conviction, it is still "alleged"...when there's some justice here, then the label can and must be removed.

The pictures that fill our screen won't go away. Just like the image of the naked girl running from My Lai, those pictures can't be erased...as well as what happened. Anyone who denies it will be minimalized in time...unless you're a kool-aid drinker...but then those people are beyond both reality and hope.

Also, I can't dismiss that some of these stories are planted by various groups in the region for their own purposes. Are there military abuses? Damn right there are...but by who and what's the real story? In the middle of this mess are our troops on the ground and stories like these lead to the use of terms "baby-killer" and paints a broad brush that ALL in the military are either accomplices in these atrocities when it's various factions here who know that pictures can be very powerful...and how rumors fly around the world while the truth is putting on its pants.

All I'm saying is careful to jump to conclusions and try to rush to blame...let's push for a full accounting and allow a combination of the justice system and history...the last thing we need is another generation of "victimized" war veterans who will take the fall for these atrocities when they weren't involved...while the higher-ups not only get away scott-free but later will turn around and blame those who rushed to a judgement as being the problem.

Peace...