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[sparky]

What? No comments on Tiger Force?

And, in addition to the Pulitzer, their story was repeated, after-the-scoop, by
The New York Times, Feb 16, 2004 pA12 col 06
The Houston Chronicle (Houston, TX) Nov 1, 2003 p12 (297 words)
The AP wires, Associated Press Monday, October 20, 2003; Page A02
which was reprinted in
The Washington Post
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Editor And Publisher (very prestigious journal)
PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer
The Miami Herald
The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Columba Journalism Review
ABC News Nightline
The New Yorker

Here's a link. While you were at the loading docks, the jungles had crap like this going on:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SRTIGERFORCE

[sparky]

Here's what the Columbia Journalism Review had to say about the Blade series:

[A Laurel} to The Blade, in Toledo, Ohio, for cutting through the fog of war and time and secrecy. Thirty-six years after an elite forty-five-man U.S. Army platoon in tiger-striped uniforms arrived in the jungles of Vietnam on a search-and-destroy mission aimed at “out-guerrilling” the fierce guerrilla enemy, the paper undertook a daunting mission of its own: to investigate allegations, never before publicly aired, that many members of that “Tiger Force” unit had committed unthinkable atrocities against unarmed Vietnamese civilians. The result, eight months in the making and drawing on thousands of classified and unclassified records and scores of interviews with former Tiger Force soldiers as well as witnesses in Vietnam, was a four-part series published in October. Its title, “Buried Secrets, Brutal Truths,” did not exaggerate: in a perverse definition of a “free-fire zone,” platoon members shot down elderly farmers in their fields, beheaded a baby, kicked out the teeth of dead civilians to grab the gold, tortured and executed prisoners, strung human trophy ears on shoelaces to wear as necklaces. Almost as shockingly, findings of official inquiries disappeared into Army archives, and with the help of the Nixon administration, the war criminals got away with it. That is, until now.

I agree with any vet who claims that high-ranking DOD officials looked the other way at these atrocities. They shelved their investigation of Tiger Force after corroborating the above accusations.

[Greenhat]

[Greenhat]

[JasonBinPNW]

ART. 88. CONTEMPT TOWARD OFFICIALS

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Transportation, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Territory, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

ART. 92. FAILURE TO OBEY ORDER OR REGULATION

Any person subject to this chapter who--

(1) violates or fails to obey any lawful general order or regulation;

(2) having knowledge of any other lawful order issued by any member of the armed forces, which it is his duty to obey, fails to obey the order; or

(3) is derelict in the performance of his duties; shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

ART. 99. MISBEHAVIOR BEFORE THE ENEMY

Any person subject to this chapter who before or in the presence of the enemy--

(9) does not afford all practicable relief and assistance to any troops, combatants, vessels, or aircraft of the armed forces belonging to the United States or their allies when engaged in battle; shall be punished by death or such punishment as a court-martial may direct

ART. 107. FALSE STATEMENTS

Any person subject to this chapter who, with intent to deceive, signs any false record, return, regulation, order, or other official document, knowing it to be false, or makes any other false official statement knowing it to be false, shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.

Now, in order to avoid posting the entire UCMJ, ART. 118. MURDER, ART. 120. RAPE AND CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, ART. 121. LARCENY AND WRONGFUL APPROPRIATION, ART. 122. ROBBERY, ART. 124. MAIMING, ART. 126. ARSON.

All of these are offenses that Mr. Kerry claims to have witnessed, yet done nothing to stop as is his duty under his oath as an Officer of the United States Navy.

That leads us to:
ART. 133. CONDUCT UNBECOMING AN OFFICER AND A GENTLEMAN

And

ART. 134. GENERAL ARTICLE

Though not specifically mentioned in this chapter, all disorders and neglects to the prejudice of good order and discipline in the armed forces, ll conduct of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces, and crimes and offenses not capital, of which persons subject to this chapter may be guilty, shall be taken cognizance of by a general, special or summary court-martial, according to the nature and degree of the offense, and shall be punished at the discretion of that court.

I will be back in a few hours to finish this "discussion".
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Semper Fi!

Jason

Proud member of "The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy"

[Craig]

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[sparky]

[sparky]

Someone needs to clarify this "Kerry said bad things about Vietnam and should have been court martialed" crap.

After weeding through a 50 page document and wasting my time, I find out that article 88 says officers have to say nice things about Nixon and Agnew? This is the worst rule Kerry broke?

Man-o-man! Talk about scraping!

Big question: Don't you guys just wish NOBODY ever told a soul about civilian massacres when our side does it? Wouldn't that be sweet? We'd be able to do anything we wanted!

[JasonBinPNW]

[sparky]

[Jeremy Eaton]

Hmm I seem to have been banned from posting in the previous forum.
So I will post here instead.
Greenhat,

[Craig]