Thursday, November 02, 2006
Hersh Suggests Open Hatred of Troops
The McGill Daily: "“Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a village, passing candy out to kids,” he began. “Suddenly the first vehicle explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the other vehicles, and they do what they’re told to do, which is look for running people.”
“Never mind that the bomb was detonated by remote control,” Hersh continued. “[The soldiers] open up fire; [the] cameras show it was a soccer game.”
“About ten minutes later, [the soldiers] begin dragging bodies together, and they drop weapons there. It was reported as 20 or 30 insurgents killed that day,” he said.
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.” "
By saying that if the American public knew what our soldiers were doing over there, that same public would spit on our returning soldiers is all but suggesting that the American public should be spitting on our soldiers. This is the kind of talk that Republicans have been suggesting was being intimated by Dems all along. Now it is just more blatant. Sy made a mistake here, but he meant to make it.
“Never mind that the bomb was detonated by remote control,” Hersh continued. “[The soldiers] open up fire; [the] cameras show it was a soccer game.”
“About ten minutes later, [the soldiers] begin dragging bodies together, and they drop weapons there. It was reported as 20 or 30 insurgents killed that day,” he said.
If Americans knew the full extent of U.S. criminal conduct, they would receive returning Iraqi veterans as they did Vietnam veterans, Hersh said.
“In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,” he said. “It isn’t happening now, but I will tell you – there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.” "
By saying that if the American public knew what our soldiers were doing over there, that same public would spit on our returning soldiers is all but suggesting that the American public should be spitting on our soldiers. This is the kind of talk that Republicans have been suggesting was being intimated by Dems all along. Now it is just more blatant. Sy made a mistake here, but he meant to make it.
