PrintNovember 3, 2006
Seymour Hersh's Other Reality
Seymour Hersh reportedly has claimed at a recent speaking event in Montreal that,
'In Vietnam, our soldiers came back and they were reviled as baby killers, in shame and humiliation,' he said. 'It isn't happening now, but I will tell you — there has never been an [American] army as violent and murderous as our army has been in Iraq.'
To make his point he, tells of an incident regarding US forces under an IED attack, a common accordance in Iraq. Only this time according to Hersh, the soldiers got out of the vehicles and started mowing down innocents on a soccer field:
He described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group of people playing soccer.
'Three U.S. armed vehicles, eight soldiers in each, are driving through a village, passing candy out to kids,' he began. 'Suddenly the first vehicle explodes, and there are soldiers screaming. Sixteen soldiers come out of the other vehicles, and they do what they're told to do, which is look for running people.'...(Read Full Article)
