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Direckshun Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 06:47 AM
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Colin Powell on Larry King last night.
It was a good show. My fits with many of Colin Powell's arguments aside, it was a good show.

However, Powell told King that he never witnessed any torturing of POWs at Vietnam.

Now, I've heard a few people here at DU said he not only witnessed torturing of POWs, but was involved in it.

Could anybody supply links that suggest this claim so I can read it for myself?
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prodigal_green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 06:49 AM
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1. that depends on what Witness and Torture mean
The way they made fun of Clinton with his "what the definition of 'is' is," they have to be called on this shit.

Orwell wouldn't have included most of this crap in his books because it would have been too far beyond belief.
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displacedtexan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 06:52 AM
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2. Here's a link (quotes Seymour Hersh)
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greenman3610 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 06:54 AM
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3. for background
google "colin Powell" my lai
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Direckshun Donating Member (303 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-05-04 07:07 AM
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4. Just did, and this is what I found:
A multitude of articles that are of two things: (1.) Blatant left-wing bashfest propaghanda on Colin Powell and (2.) objective reports that give fair say to the facts, rather than infusing them with opinion.

Needless to say, there were a lot more of (1.) than (2.), but the (2.) were almost unanimous in the facts:

A guy named Tom Glen wrote a letter charging the U.S. divisions in My Lai with civilian brutality, based on his experiences. Colin Powell was called upon by the military to refute Glen's article. However, Powell never met with or interviewed Glen, and wrote such bland statements as "relations between American soldiers and the Vietnamese people are excellent," which merely contradicted Glen's article, and did not actually refute any of the facts presented by Glen.

So there you have it. No solid proof, but discernable reasoning indicates that Powell probably lied to Larry King last night. This administration doesn't surprise me anymore.
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