{"id":330,"date":"2006-06-03T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-03T17:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2006-07-19T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T21:27:12","slug":"war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appologists for Malai massacre in Vietnam always irritated me. When the only man convicted of responsibility, a Lyndie England type fellow named Lt. Calley,\u00c2\u00a0got out of jail\u00c2\u00a0his hometown welcomed him back warmly notwithstanding the pictures of scores of murdered innocents.<\/p>\n<p>A similar situation exists for American troops in Iraq as Vietnam. They don&#8217;t know who is friendly and who is intent on killing them. So far I&#8217;ve not heard too many stories about our troops calling Iraqi&#8217;s &#8220;towel heads&#8221; but I&#8217;m sure it happens. The military knows that its politically incorrect. That&#8217;s not how it was after WWII. When I&#8217;d play war games I&#8217;d call the Germans, &#8220;Jerrys,&#8221; just like the actors I&#8217;d heard in war movies. In Vietnam it was &#8220;gooks&#8221; which was even more dehumanizing.<\/p>\n<p>We can&#8217;t treat people who gun down civilians even in panic as heroes. They should be prosecuted. But we&#8217;re so desperate for manpower that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/medicine\/la-fg-soldier14may14,1,7777235.story?coll=la-health-medicine\">we are sending troops in who shouldn&#8217;t be there<\/a>. Damn the impossible situation that has turned some good Americans into monsters. If that&#8217;s not a war crime it ought to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The appologists for Malai massacre in Vietnam always irritated me. When the only man convicted of responsibility, a Lyndie England type fellow named Lt&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}