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Vietnam: America's ugly little war

Posted by: Samuel Day Fassbinder ( Citizens for Mustard Greens, USA ) on July 01, 1998 at 09:56:28:

In Reply to: Fabrication posted by Stuart Gort on June 30, 1998 at 19:20:49:


: Hey Sam! Are you going to retract your wild accusations now that CNN
: has been caught fabricating the news you based them on? If not, you've
: just taken one more step toward extinction.

I am hypothesizing, not accusing.

The attention that should
: be given to this incredible lack of journalistic integrity

You mean like the attention that should be given to the cover-up of news about how many Iraqis were actually killed during the Gulf War? How about the integrity of CIA agents who consistently falsified estimates of "enemy strength" during the period 1965-1968 to make the intelligence community higher-ups feel they could present a case to the Pentagon that "we were winning the war"? Journalistic integrity has been a slave to the media and political hierarchies since time immemorial.

will
: regrettably not overshadow the original lie even if the proper heads
: roll - as is expected. Too bad. At least you have been shown as you
: truly are in this thing.

I'm just guessing based on the data I have, just like everyone else.

: That is - a reactionary radical

And you're a fundie, Stu, whose "nature" is to avoid conflicts about REAL INFORMATION in order to create bickering and personality quarrels, because you're AFRAID that if we get into an argument about FACTS, you'll LOSE EVERY TIME.

willing to go
: off half cocked with a psuedo-intellectual paranoid rant. Maybe that
: was harsh
:but I have a great deal of respect for those who serve their
: country and disdain for those who attack them with spit and lies.

: Stuart Gort

Read Douglas Valentine's THE PHOENIX PROGRAM. Valentine corroborates from numerous sources that the CIA used to take "deserters" and other renegades in Vietnam, and blackmail them into performing tough intelligence collecting missions, and then when the missions were over, the "deserters" would be snuffed out by the CIA. Thus the CNN report looks like nothing unusual within the context Valentine's informants describe.


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