US Senator Ron Wyden, statement on the DOJ killing americans memo

[Octafish]

21. Then exploded.

These are gangster times, no different than in the antebellum South.

Thank you, Ichingcarpenter. Mr. Douglas put it into perspective perfectly. And the same property-over-people warmongers and slavemasters own and operate the government.

I haven't read it yet, but there's a new book about Vietnam by Nick Turse, "Kill Everything That Moves," that pretty much puts the situation into words almost as well as Mr. Douglass.

“No book I have read in decades has so shaken me, as an American. Turse lays open the ground-level reality of a war that was far more atrocious than Americans at home have ever been allowed to know. He exposes official policies that encouraged ordinary American soldiers and airmen to inflict almost unimaginable horror and suffering on ordinary Vietnamese, followed by official cover-up as tenacious as Turse’s own decade of investigative effort against it. Kill Anything That Moves is obligatory reading for Americans, because its implications for the likely scale of atrocities and civilian casualties inflicted and covered up in our latest wars are inescapable and staggering.” —Daniel Ellsberg, author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers