liberty wrote:Well what did you do in the cold war? I was a war criminal by your standards because I dared to oppose the communist. No info wars there.
No, by my standards what you did during the Cold War to "oppose the communist" is your own business. The country called and you responded ... or so you claim ... although from the sounds of it you were more of the
"I love the smell of napalm in the morning" or the
"Kill 'em all; let God sort 'em out" kind of guy than the reluctant but resigned draftee. But if you can live with that, more power to you. I think you're an asshole because of some of your more-recent postings, not your ancient history.
liberty wrote:Why is it nothing can be found on the web for the 1968 war crimes trial of the U.S. in Sweden. Are you going to say it never happened and you never waved Viet Cong Flags?
Fuckin' A right I never waved any Viet Cong flags or wore SDS armbands or faced off against National Guard troops like at Kent State. Did I volunteer? No, of course not. Keep in mind that when the VietNam War was 'hot', such as when the My Lai massacre or the Tet offensive occurred, I was 13 years old and in 8th grade, and I was 15 and a sophomore in high school when Kent State went down. But when I did turn 18 in the latter part of 1972 I did register for Selective Service; I didn't burn my draft card (in fact, I've still got it around here somewhere); and while I never heard anything more of it other than registration and initial classification as '1-H', had I been called up for medical evaluation/classification and/or induction, you can betcher sweet ass I'd have been there.
And as for your ignorant comment that
"nothing can be found on the web for the 1968 war crimes trial of the US in Sweden", you couldn't be any more full of shit unless you were a port-a-potty at a construction site. There is literally no end to the amount of material I found on the Russell Tribunal, as it was called, just by doing a casual Google search. The chief point is that this was not a "War Crimes Trial" or a "Tribunal" convened by any legitimate government entity; it was
"a private body organized by British philosopher and Nobel Prize winner Bertrand Russell and hosted by French philosopher and writer Jean-Paul Sartre. Along with Lelio Basso (an Italian democratic socialist politician and journalist), Ken Coates (a British politician and writer), Ralph Schoenman (an American left-wing activist and personal secretary to Mr. Russell), Julio Cortázar (an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist) and several others, the tribunal investigated and evaluated American foreign policy and military intervention in Vietnam, following the 1954 defeat of French forces at Diên Biên Phu and the establishment of North and South Vietnam. The tribunal did not investigate alleged war crimes by the Viet Cong." — which means it carried about as much weight as a conference on Hilary Clinton's e-mails convened by the talking heads of Faux News and chaired by Dumb'old Trump. Anybody with half the sense God gave to a gopher could plainly see that this "Russell Tribunal" was a left-wing kangaroo court of no consequence whatsoever.
-"BB"-
Yes, I suppose I could agree with you ... but then we'd both be wrong, wouldn't we?