[Vision2020] Iraq's My Lai Massacre

rvrcowboy rvrcowboy at clearwire.net
Mon May 29 14:47:28 PDT 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chasuk" <chasuk at gmail.com>
To: "rvrcowboy" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
Cc: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>; <nickgier at adelphia.net>
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2006 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Iraq's My Lai Massacre


> On 5/29/06, rvrcowboy <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net> wrote:
>
> > I think it is disgusting for `people like Nick Gier to post this sort of
> > inflamable material to a public forum.  What are his motives?  Is he
trying
> > to be a part of the solution to a problem or simply attempting to
further
> > the rhetoric and anger?
>
> I'm confused.  The New York Times, arguably the most important
> newspaper in the United States, considered _the_ newspaper of record
> for our nation -- it prints an article, which Nick reprints, and this
> is somehow a bad thing?
>
> > It is clear what Mr. Gier thinks about our soldiers in Iraq.  He
believes
> > they are cold blooded murders who kill innocent people without
provocation.
>
> I'm not trying to be contrary, Dick, but... how is what you have
> asserted of Nick, "clear?"
>
> > And just read the words of John Murtha, the great American traitor.
>
> Murtha is a traitor?  He wins the Bronze Star (with Combat "V" for
> valor device), two Purple Hearts, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry,
> and the Navy Distinguished Service Medal, but he somehow isn't
> entitled to express a contrary opinion?
>
> > Most of you defended the right of Kanay Mubita to a fair hearing, but
you
> > will likely support the smearing of our own troops by people like Gier
and
> > Murtha.  All the while, pretending that you support the troops!  What a
> > joke!
>
> Reporting what some of our troops may have done does not qualify as
> "smearing."  If this were true, then any time that a man or a woman
> were accused of a crime, the press would be guilty of slanderous
> defamation.  Is that what you are arguing?
>



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