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(Steve Richter) wrote in message . com...

What I don't follow on this subject is what do the "accidental
attack"ers charge Capt Boston of lying about? His statement is well
written in that it is specific, clear and to the point. Why would
Boston, a combat veteran of WWII, lie on this matter and why do those
who defend Israel disparage him so?

The question is:
Had Boston lied when he had signed his name on the Court's findings,
affirming that the investigation had been done properly,
or did he lie later when he said that the investigation
was not done properly?

If the first, then what the word of a man who took an oath to
do a job properly, and did not do it, really worths?

How it is a lie when the Court's findings were altered
after they were submitted by Kidd to his superiors? How
do you even know what was in the report the Kidd
originally submitted, when evidence by Boston and others
suggests that Johnson's people at the White House
modified some sections and deleted other sections
that they didn't like?

The sad fact is that President Johnson was a proven
liar.

Johnson lied during the 1964 Presidential elections when
he repeatedly said that he "would not send American boys
to do the job of the Vietnamese boys." Later publication
of the Pentagon Papers revealed that the decision to send
ground troops to Southeast Asia had already been made.

The irony here is that Johnson was running as the
'peace' candidate. His was no small lie, since
the lie resulted in the deaths of tens of
thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese.
McNamara has estimated that somewhere in the
neighborhood of between two and three million
of the 'enemy' died during America's Southeast Asia
adventure.

This was the war that included the CIA's Phoenix
program, which killed thousands of civilians,
sometimes by summary execution, sometimes after
an interrogation session which included extreme
torture.

This was the war which included 'free-fire zones,'
where US soldiers could shoot anything that moved,
including women, children and the elderly. The
dead were included in the daily count of communist
fighters killed, even if those killed were unarmed
civilians.

It is fairly well known that many Americans ground
troops considered all Vietnamese as sub-human
'gooks.' A popular slogan which appears on many
tee-shirts at the time says, "kill them all, let
God sort it out."

A recent newspaper series in the Toledo Blade
detailed the atrocities committed in the Vietnamese
central highlands by an elite American unit known
as the Tiger Force:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs...y=SRTIGERFORCE