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121 Winter Soldier Investigation (was Re: Colin Powell) -- rank: 392

... officers >involved. That seems a partial parallel, at least, >to My Lai. My point is that the politics of fixating >on an episode ... was Vietnam Veterans' own testimonies that let Americans know that My Lai was _no

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 20 08:54:21 PST 2000

122 Colin Powell -- rank: 284

> > Regarding Powell and My Lai, I have to wonder if this > indictment >satisfies the needs ... and the like, by antiwar activists? . . . if you had read my post, rather than reacting to an excerpt, you would have ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Dec 19 22:03:03 PST 2000

123 Crushing the Colin Powell Myth -- rank: 584

... of journalist Ridenhour(sp?) who had helped to unmask Mai Lai. He wasn't there but was nearby and the next ... the most horrible > attrocities of the Vietnam War, the Mai Lai massacre. This frenzied kil

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Author:	Steve Grube
Date:	Tue Dec 19 21:28:35 PST 2000

124 Colin Powell -- rank: 220

... War? I wasn't aware of that. > > Regarding Powell and My Lai, I have to wonder if this > indictment >satisfies the needs ...

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Author:	Justin Schwartz
Date:	Tue Dec 19 20:54:55 PST 2000

125 Colin Powell -- rank: 428

... officers involved. That seems a partial parallel, at least, to My Lai. My point is that the politics of fixating on an episode ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Dec 19 19:48:12 PST 2000

126 Colin Powell -- rank: 284

... them are from different times so I am not sure my experiences with the Gulf war issues give me any insight ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Tue Dec 19 05:49:08 PST 2000

127 Colin Powell -- rank: 594

... and like Robert Parry, one of the authors of the My Lai/Powell story. Assuming it is all true, I still have ... You can imagine how delightful that was. Regarding Powell and My Lai, I have to wonder if this indictment satisfies the needs ... legitimate. I do wonder about the line of argument that My Lai's were sufficiently

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Dec 18 19:48:49 PST 2000

128 Crushing the Colin Powell Myth -- rank: 565

... the most horrible attrocities of the Vietnam War, the Mai Lai massacre. This frenzied killing of unarmed civilians was eventually exposed ... carnage. But there also were American heroes that day in My Lai. Some soldiers refused to obey the direct orders to kill ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Mon Dec 18 09:52:49 PST 2000

129 RES: Yugoslavia: what the media is hiding (The Guardian) -- rank: 220

... during counter-insurgency operations [which is why blanket liquidations like My Lai are so common] - and downright impossible if many of your ...

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Author:	Rob Schaap
Date:	Sat Oct 7 23:32:02 PDT 2000

130 Truly moral decline -- rank: 364

> >Quaint is right. Athough I recall telling my highly cultivated college >mentor, Harvard '37, about Donna Summers; Love ...

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Author:	Joanna Sheldon
Date:	Sat Sep 23 21:59:12 PDT 2000

131 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 220

... Lieutenant William Calley > was convicted for war crimes in the My Lai massacre -- after > *photographs* were published in Life magazine. Other countries ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Tue Aug 29 11:53:39 PDT 2000

132 Finkelstein's background -- rank: 220

... Lieutentant William Calley was convicted for war crimes in the My Lai massacre -- after *photographs* were published in Life magazine. Other countries ...

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Author:	Seth Ackerman
Date:	Tue Aug 29 11:18:39 PDT 2000

133 [fla-left] New Study: Nixon "Wrecked Early Peace In Vietnam" (fwd) -- rank: 220

Robert Scheer reported on below stuff 30 years ago in Ramparts magazine. More recently, portion of historian Robert Dallek's Johnson biography _Flawed Giant_ covers same ground. According to D, among 7500 LBJ wiretaps were Humphrey conversations suggesting that he might withdraw troops under terms unfavorable to Johnson (who wanted more ...

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Thu Aug 17 07:11:33 PDT 2000

134 GM for AA -- rank: 284

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doug, I believe that it is similar to Kalecki's political business >cycle. It has to >do with the specific stage of the economy. When there is a lot of >unemployment, fight >AA, cause dissention, and blame the minorities. When the job market >is tight, go for >AA ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Jul 19 10:39:30 PDT 2000

135 S Korean veteran admits massacre of civilians during Vietnam War -- rank: 220

For those on the list interested in the Korean role in Vietnam, here is an essay I just published in Hankyoreh 21, the Seoul magazine that broke the story, that talks about Vietnam in the context of the Korean War and the US-Korea military relationship. The idea was to encourage ...

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Author:	TRox51 at aol.com
Date:	Wed Apr 19 07:24:18 PDT 2000