I without reserve am a fan of the USA.
And without reserve am concerned about its present course.
We know, if we have eyes and ears, others do much the same and worse, yes worse as a group fueled by hate not this insanity.
And that this has been found to be the act of one person an American soldier.
The thread suggests much more, but never forget ,not for an instant, lies are a weapon and every day currency in that part of the world.
Remember too, lack of understanding, and education, keeps peoples minds in the middle ages there.
Now for America, it too must confront its jingoism, its radical Christian belief that it acts in Gods name.
America celebrates its armed forces, bright and shiny Marine soldiers looking great and with great precision showing skills in use of guns.
But on active service, armed, SOME/TOO MANY with the America right always, its troops have more deaths of civilians and friendly others than any army.
Before parodying me,remember I honor the America that twice saved the old world, but lets its ex service personnel sleep on the streets? never.

A friend who has just returned from Seattle saw Vets with missing limbs begging for money.Is this how the West treats its returned soldiers ?

Stevenlmeyer you are trying to deny the reality.The Banking Military Industrial Complex is behind these wars of Western Imperialism.They started the last two World Wars also.Let them put their children on the line this time.

Dear Steven,

Just to clarify a few points:

The US army did NOT begin investigating My Lai until
the Spring of 1969, a year after the killings, and
only after a former member of Charlie Company sent a
letter to government officials, including then US
President Richard Nixon and numerous members of Congress.
The army had denied the incident ever happened prior to
that. Also as it turned out combat photographer Sgt
Ron Haeberle had photographs of the incident - which were
later published.

So, I guess we'll have to wait a while for the truth to
be outed - if it ever will be, that is. Blaming one soldier
on a mental disorder does seem a bit too convenient though -
doesn't it? Walks like a duck, talks like a duck ...

How do you find a terrorist? Take an oil engineer along with his sophistocated equipment.

You only have to look at the average BLOCKHEAD that serves in the US military to realise how plausible it is that such an atrocity could be perpetrated by the misfits that make up the US milatry machine. Was his name Chuck or Leroy!

Paul you can do better than that.
Hopefully arjay you can too.
We mate are talking about one American.
Not western what ever.
They confront folk who make public execution a public sport.
Who send children and mentally impaired ,bomb strapped to their body's to murder innocents.
They hate us, sometimes because we are different, or because we do not believe in their God.
The holly book they have tells them to hate and lie.
America, parts of it are like a movie in progress, with a badly written script and worse actors.
The folk you sprook for, then are too, but its a horror film without end, not a halo in sight.