View Thread Return to Index Previous Next

MiYard Cyber Club Message Board Archive

Re: Colin Powell will end up being
By:central scrutinizer
Date: 10/18/08 8:17pm
In Response To: Re: Colin Powell to appear on... (ray)

the same kind of moletroll LIEberman was. Back in 68 he reported the results of his investigation into the Mai Lai Massacre:

The first investigation of My Lai Operation was conducted under orders from the Americal Division's executive officer, Brigadier General George which concluded later that 22 civillians at My Lai were killed inadvertently and that there was no massacre as rumors. And the US Army was still referring to My Lai as one of the greatest victory in cracking Viet Cong strongholds.

Another attempt to bring My Lai Massacre to light was made by Tom Glen, a 21-year-old soldier of the 11th Light Infantry Brigade who wrote a letter to the newly-appointed General Commander of the US Forces in Vietnam, General Creighton Abrams accusing the Americal Division of the massacre. Colin Powell, a 31-year-old Army Major, who later became US Secretary of State, was charged with investigating the letter who came to a conclusion in the end that the letter was refuted by the excellent relations between the US Army and the Vietnamese people.

Ronald L. Haeberle was a United States Army photographer who was assigned to Charlie Company to document the crack of Viet Cong at My Lai. Haeberle had 02 cameras, one owned by the US Army and one owned by himself. The camera of the Army had black-and-white films while his own had color films. After the operation Haeberle turned in the black and white films which had the standard pictures of the search and destroy mission showing US soldiers fighting bravely in fierce combats. But he kept all the color pictures showing the reality of the massacre taken from his own camera.

Ron Ridenhour from Pheonix, Arizona joined the army in Mar 1967. At the end of 1967, Ridenhour was sent to Vietnam and assigned to be a helicopter gunner on scout missions. Ridenhour flew above Son My a few days after the massacre and found that it was unusually dead scene of the village on the ground but had no idea what had happened. Ridenhour met some former soldiers of Charlie and was told about the massacre after that.

Ridenhour national service term terminated in December 1968 and returned to Phoenix. In March 1969, Ron Ridenhour sent a letter with details describing the massacre at My Lai to the US President Richard M. Nixon, the Pentagon, the State Department, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and many members of the US Congress. Most ignored Ridenhour's letter claiming later that they had never received it, except Congressman Morris Udall (D-Arizona). The brutality at My Lai was about to be revealed to the public.

November 13 1969, the first full article of the massacre at My Lai by Seymour Hersh, an independent journalist, was published. Many newspapers and magazines followed suite including Time, Life and Newsweek magazines all covering the story; and CBS televised an interview with Paul Meadlo who admitted the crime he and his comrades of the 1st Platoon had committed. At the same time, the shocking pictures of the massacre were published on the Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper. The pictures were too shocking that the US government and the US Army couldn't once more ignore an investigation.

In March 1970, Courts Martial of the US Army charged 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident, but the charges were soon dropped. Captain Medina denied giving the orders that led to the massacre and was acquitted.

William L. Calley, Jr. was the only one convicted, on September 10, 1971, of premeditated murder for ordering the shootings. He was initially sentenced to life in prison. But he was released a few days later from prison by an order from the US President and later convicted to serve three and one-half months in a military prison. Most of the other men enlisted and involved in the massacre had left the army and escaped courts martial.

He rigged the intel back then just as he did for Bush.

Messages In This Thread

Colin Powell to appear on... -- ray -- 10/18/08 1:56pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- bruce -- 10/18/08 6:31pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 7:01pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- BMD -- 10/18/08 6:38pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- queenb -- 10/18/08 3:43pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- ray -- 10/18/08 3:59pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 4:03pm
I have made my points clear... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:06pm
One could take it one way... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:17pm
Re: I have made my points clear... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 6:10pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 3:47pm
Re: Colin Powell recants -- MilwaukeeMike -- 10/18/08 4:43pm
Okay BMD... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:39pm
Thats what they all do.... -- central scrutinizer -- 10/18/08 7:49pm
Re: Say it ain't so... -- BMD -- 10/18/08 6:52pm
I am not going anywhere BMD... -- ray -- 10/19/08 6:30pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- ray -- 10/18/08 4:18pm
Re: Colin Powell will end up being -- central scrutinizer -- 10/18/08 8:17pm
Re: Colin Powell's endorsement -- BMD -- 10/18/08 5:52pm
To be clear -- ray -- 10/18/08 5:57pm
Re: To be clear -- BMD -- 10/18/08 6:05pm
Sorry... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:11pm
Re: Sorry... -- BMD -- 10/18/08 6:26pm
I see your judgments... -- ray -- 10/19/08 8:38pm
WELL WELL WELL -- NancyJ -- 10/19/08 8:56pm
You can call it what you want... -- ray -- 10/20/08 4:53pm
LOL...your pathetic........... *NM* -- NancyJ -- 10/20/08 7:57pm
Re: Colin Powell's endorsement -- Roger -- 10/18/08 5:55pm
I would agree... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:01pm
Re: I would agree... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 6:05pm
Fine Roger.... -- ray -- 10/18/08 6:19pm
Re: Fine Roger.... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 6:50pm
My reponses Roger: -- ray -- 10/18/08 7:44pm
this is election Ray..not a -- oldtimer -- 10/19/08 6:54am
Because: -- ray -- 10/19/08 7:15pm
And, this will last how long?? -- Bob and Pat -- 10/19/08 10:49am
Re: And, this will last how long?? -- ray -- 10/19/08 11:29am
Re: And, this will last how long?? -- Roger -- 10/19/08 5:23pm
Re: And, this will last how long?? -- accompong -- 10/20/08 9:21am
I Was Thinking A Few Apologies May Be In Order -- Island Girl -- 10/19/08 7:45pm
Really?...well... -- ray -- 10/20/08 5:17pm
*sigh* *NM* -- ray -- 10/19/08 7:47pm
LOL :) *NM* -- NancyJ -- 10/19/08 10:42am
Re: My reponses Roger: -- Roger -- 10/18/08 8:19pm
Re: Fine Roger.... -- BMD -- 10/18/08 7:02pm
Good bye Ray! -- MilwaukeeMike -- 10/18/08 7:04pm
Re: ..success in Iraq-Ray -- MilwaukeeMike -- 10/18/08 4:58pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 4:41pm
Right on Roger! -- ray -- 10/18/08 5:13pm
Re: Right on Roger! -- Roger -- 10/18/08 5:21pm
I'm simply happy with we agree.... -- ray -- 10/18/08 5:36pm
Re: Colin Powell to appear on... -- Roger -- 10/18/08 3:12pm