The Furious Spinner

Tom Davis has written an amazing piece, "The Scalping Party," that shows the inexorable link between the forces in power today and during the Vietnam war—and the (inevitable) horrific consequences of a "hunt and kill" policy. Davis wonders why more attention is not being paid to the recent expose by The Toledo Blade about atrocities committed by members of the "Tiger Force" in Vietnam during the summer and fall of 1967. The Blade did an amazing series on the "Tiger Force". The story of these horrors committed by U.S. warriors against Vietnamese civilians has been suppressed for over thirty years. Although The Blade says no one knows how far up the chain of command the cover up went, they say "it is worth recalling whom the leading actors were at the time: the Secretary of Defense, then as now, was Donald Rumsfeld, and the White House chief of staff was Dick Cheney."

Kind of gives you chills, eh? These are the same people who have ordered a new form of "hunt and kill" in Iraq called "Operation Iron Hammer." It doesn't seem like the U.S. administration can learn from any past mistakes: probably because they don't believe they are mistakes. It appears our fearless (it ain't their butts out there getting shot at) so-called leaders believe the only way to "win" in Iraq is by bombing the shit out of everything and everyone. Let's hope it doesn't go on too much longer. The U.S. has lost more troops since March than it did in the first three years of Vietnam. And how many Iraqis have died? 0 comments

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