powel on c-span, how sad, he is bringing me to tears

[rainy]

because he is so full of sh*t and I can't beleive he represents me and my fellow americans around the world. His words are so sugar coated and it is painful to listen. I don't think he really believes all of the sad glorifying drival he spews in support of Bush policy.

[redqueen]

1. Quite the bootlicker, isn't he?

He's been honing his bootlicking skills since VietNam, at least.

[goclark]

2. Powell Is Scum

He is such a disappointment.
I will be glad to see him go on Trial with the rest of them.

[Robbien]

3. From the most respected man to a Bush doormat

How the mighty has fallen.

[mitchum]

4. Why, is he singing "Ol' Man River"?

Powell = shameless

[TheDebbieDee]

6. No, he won't be singing that song til next week.....eom

[nostamj]

5. look at his miserable POS son....

"the apple doesn't fall...."

[maggrwaggr]

8. exactly. when I realized Michael Powell was his son

I realized Colin P's an even bigger fraud than I had imagined.

[nolabels]

7. Thanks for the update, I never would have expected much less

http://www.dreamscape.com/morgana/mylai.htm
The My Lai Massacre

The average age of soldiers in Charlie Company was twenty; they had been in South Vietnam for three months. Trained in Hawaii, the unit was considered one of the best in the army. William Calley, aged 24, was not particularly popular with the men he led. Small in stature, he was considered nervous and excitable and too gung ho -- always trying to impress his superiors. Captain Medina ridiculed Calley, calling him Lieutenant Shithead in front of the troops.

When the soldiers in Charlie Company pushed into the hamlet, they expected to be locked into fierce combat with a Viet Cong battalion believed to be at My Lai. For three months the American unit had been in no major battles but had suffered a lot of casualties from snipers, mines, and booby traps. The soldiers were ready to prove themselves, ready to exact revenge on the enemy.

Charlie Company met no resistance; there were no Viet Cong soldiers at My Lai. Calley then ordered the slaughter of the civilians. People were rounded up into ditches and machine-gunned. They lay five feet deep in the ditches; any survivors trying to escape were immediately shot. When Calley spotted a baby crawling away from a ditch, he grabbed her, threw her back into the ditch, and opened fire. Some of the dead were mutilated by having "C Company" carved into their chests; some were disemboweled. One GI would later say, "You didn’t have to look for people to kill, they were just there. I cut their throats, cut off their hands, cut out their tongues, scalped them. I did it. A lot of people were doing it and I just followed. I just lost all sense of direction."

Flying high above the slaughter was helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson. Sickened by what he was witnessing, Thompson set down his aircraft and began to rescue the Vietnamese survivors. he ordered his machine gunner to open fire on any American soldiers who continued to shoot villagers. In one ditch, Thompson pulled out a three-year-old child, almost smothered in blood, but not injured. After he radioed for help from other helicopters, an enraged Thompson reported to his section leader and in graphic detail told of what he had seen. Soon afterward, Charlie Company was ordered to stop killing civilians.

Coverup of the massacre began immediately. Reports on the My Lai operation stated that it was a stunning combat victory against a Viet Cong stronghold. Stars and Stripes, the army newspaper, ran a feature story applauding the courage of the American soldiers who had risked their lives. Even General William Westmoreland sent a personal congratulatory note to Charlie Company. An initial investigation into My Lai was swift and definitive: My Lai was a combat operation in which twenty civilians had accidentally been killed.
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