Vietnam to probe Tiger Force deaths (US Unit atrocities)

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/03299/234456.stm

Thirty-six years after a U.S. Army platoon swept through the heart of Vietnam torturing and killing civilians, the Vietnamese military is investigating the atrocities to determine how many people died in the rampage.

Military officials say they want to trace the movements of Tiger Force during the unit's seven-month campaign in the Central Highlands by interviewing villagers and searching local archives.

Col. Nguyen Thai is leading the investigation, which was sparked by The Blade's series, "Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths, " a Vietnamese government spokesman said last week. The series was also published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, sister paper of The Blade, of Toledo, Ohio.

The newspaper's findings -- reported by television and newspapers in Vietnam -- may answer questions about the fate of hundreds of civilians in Quang Ngai and Quang Nam provinces who disappeared in 1967.

[blm]

1. This is timed to make service in Vietnam a taint against those who served.

No doubt, this is ALL about John Kerry and Wesley Clark. I heard the Bush administration decided to reopen the cases of the POW-MIAs again, too, which fringe groups claim Kerry and McCain covered up.

[Dogmudgeon]

2. Blowback

The Bush gang risks blowback from this one -- Colin Powell was instrumental in covering up the massacre at My Lai. Of course, if it's coming from some one or ones who want Powell out of the way, it makes more sense.

But I have no trouble accepting the idea that this is all about Clark and Kerry. The Bushies have become very brazen risk-takers. Now that they have stabbed the CIA in its collective back, they feel confident enough to go after the military.

These are either monumentally stupid people, or they have a doozy of a Plan B.

--bkl

[Tinoire]

3. Awesome!

Related article with details: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=185166

Absolutely disgusting! The soldiers who participated in these things must pay. It is not too late!

60 years later we are still bringing Nazi war criminals to justice- let not one American, regardless of rank, who either participated, approved, or covered this up, be let off the hook.

This includes Colin Powell who has covererd this up for years!

[Nlighten1]

4. They must pay.

There is no doubt this needs to be addressed.