tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2359698087928768667.post7686925348322131010..comments2023-11-05T07:30:16.659-05:00Comments on Obiter Dictum: WSI: Atrocities, War Crimes and Murder Back On TopDenis Keohanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11931467085232813353noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2359698087928768667.post-22275048589773124452008-03-03T13:04:00.000-05:002008-03-03T13:04:00.000-05:00How about reporting these allegations to the prope...How about reporting these allegations to the proper authorities and testifying under oath?? How is it that IVAW is so singularly incapable of following proper legal procedures?<BR/><BR/>In truth, IVAW never got off the "systematic brutality" narrative - they just made it appear so through a sleight of ye olde semantical hand. The only people they are kidding are themselves - they think they can trash their military and civilian leadership with unsubstantiated and unsworn "testimony" to "war crimes" without defaming every GI in the process. For what it's worth, they might as well go back and employ Kerry's "Genghis Khan" rhetoric - it's a difference without any distinction.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2359698087928768667.post-29653537746017954852008-03-02T18:19:00.000-05:002008-03-02T18:19:00.000-05:00Robin, I keep hearing the same tired and drilled i...Robin, I keep hearing the same tired and drilled into them rhetoric about "bad apples" and we don't really want to blame the troops - and the blind self-centered occupants of their support echo chamber simply won't listen to people who have seen the result of this for decades, on thousands and millions of the "troops"!!!!<BR/><BR/>You convince enough Americans that this smear is true, a great many will believe the military top brass or politicians are ultimately responsible - <B>but they will also with justification think those troops IVAW falsely claims to care about are dangerous and untrustworthy people! That is what WSI 1971 did for the Viet Vets! They are peddling that the troops are committing these atrocities, and they really expect no repercussions to fall on the troops! Human beings don't operate that way! For most folks, the concept of someone else putting you in a situation or instituting an "informal policy" to kill innocents, children, the elderly, women - will not buy that here is not individual responsibility and accountability! "The Army made me do it" doesn't compute!</B><BR/><BR/>And just as with the VVAW, these are the folks who are granted forgiveness because they admitted to it, and the other millions who served honorably are - the ones hiding the truth of their crimes!<BR/><BR/>It is sickening!<BR/><BR/>TimesOnLine had:<BR/><BR/><I>"Washburn says Haditha was not an isolated incident. 'It’s the one that just happened to be uncovered.'"</I><BR/><BR/>So many IVAW say the same thing! You would hope that <B>once, just once</B>, if this was not isolated one of these self aggrandizing morally superior <B>gossips masquerading as moral lights</B> would identify some of these other common incidents with <B>detail! If there are so many, what is the problem????</B><BR/><BR/>I deleted the last comment simply because this has me so furious that I made more than my usual typos, like exponentially!<BR/><BR/>No, they won't! Their handlers didn't train them that way.Denis Keohanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931467085232813353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2359698087928768667.post-56987289239845764152008-03-02T18:12:00.000-05:002008-03-02T18:12:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Denis Keohanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11931467085232813353noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2359698087928768667.post-31093722910949607602008-03-02T16:18:00.000-05:002008-03-02T16:18:00.000-05:00Denis - you beat me to the punch. I was just going...Denis - you beat me to the punch. I was just going to email you about this article. So much for "not indicting the military" claims, huh?Robinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01591455014991149917noreply@blogger.com