01-22-2006, 11:18 PM
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who systematically killed of, or forcefully assimilated millions of people, making money off the act, lulling the people with speeches and gifts, and did this successfully?
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Any drug cartel in South America in Mexico? Any extremist group in the Middle East who might get a nuc? Edit: (I got banned from RAT for 30 days to objecting to what I thought was censorship. I was actually banned for about 340 days. This was the previous RAT administration. I think any repression of academic expression is wrong. So I think you have freedom to say what you want. This means I think I do also.
When I got back from Viet-Nam as a combat medic, (both tours) I had a lot of people ask me what I saw. I did so even it was not what people wanted to hear. Mainly, that I never personally saw an American soldier commit a war crime. I have personal knowledge of several massacres committed by the NVA, and what would later be known as the Khmer Rouge. I did not see anything to back up what the popular political agenda was, and said so. If I had a nickle for every time I heard about Mai-Lie, and $10000 for every time I heard about the NVA massacres at Hue, I would get rich quicker on nickles. In one instance, one of your rude fellow countrymen and a student from sweden started screaming at me that I was a liar and the Swedish student knew so because he read different in Pravda. He then physically struck me. This is something I will always associate with England and Sweden. Should I judge all by those two? No. But I will always remember the incident.
RAT got away from debating modern political issues because of the rancor it started. I do not want to start anything, but on your last comment about what Americans should read or believe, in our next election... I think you tread on thin ice. Maybe Americans should simply quit caring about what the world thinks about us and we should do as we please. If we are so bad, and hated so much, then we maybe we should quit worrying about anybody but ourselves. I say this because of what I have seen and lived, and I hope none of you ever have to do so yourselves. I am reluctant to get into this issue, because of my previous expierinces with those who didn't understand what an eye witness is.
If anyone takes exception to what I say, PM me. I dont want RAT to slide back into a soap box. There are other forums for that.
Ralph Izard
