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Post #193,032 by dmcarls 2/4/05 12:14:59 PM Reply	Sorry, but.....plus \ufffda change, plus c'est la m\ufffdme chose From Wikpedia... "Calley claimed that he was following orders from his captain, Ernest Medina; Medina denied giving the orders and was acquitted at a separate trial. Most of the soldiers involved in the My Lai incident were no longer enlisted. Of the 26 men initially charged, Lt. Calley's was the only conviction."
Post #193,122 by Ashton 2/5/05 1:50:21 AM Reply	I wonder how many Muricans recall 'Calley' at all Is it still hypocrisy.. when your attention span is shorter daily (and you never read any history anyway?) What a cesspool these Neoconmen have built. Watching the soft-spoken Perle, Wolfowitz entone their dreamweaving in 'polite' interviews is ... a softly-hideous event. (But when one contemplates how effective these soothing monologues are amidst the gullible.. There are no words.)
Post #193,610 by dmcarls 2/8/05 12:30:24 PM Reply	Have you learned your lesson? "Our aim has not been to assign individual blame," the report said. "Our aim has been to provide the fullest possible account of the events surrounding 9/11 and to identify lessons learned." [link\|http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/02/06/MNGOUB59CP1.DTL\|http://www.sfgate.co...6/MNGOUB59CP1.DTL] And therein lies the lesson. Quite an education, eh?
Post #193,659 by jake123 2/8/05 1:38:09 PM Reply	Hmm. Looks to me like they figured they had zero chance of pinning that on anybody believable that wouldn't immediately squeal out on the people at the top of the stovepipe. In short, no personal loyalty and prolly a lot of contempt from the foot soldier for the generals in that particular field of endeavour. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #194,106 by Ashton 2/11/05 3:54:05 AM Reply	Cynicism is when you expect the worst from most folks, willy -nilly. Unclear what you call it when your expectations are based upon an unbroken record. This is the first admin which has been elected (well, at least once, depending) on a platform of Strict Unaccountability: they need not 'lie', hoping to get away with some blunder; it's Expected. Love. It.

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