[beckett]

Only problem with your take on the Bob Kerrey incident is that the female witness in some vital respects has been corroborated by a member of Kerrey's own squad. Bottom line, a group of villagers ended up tightly grouped and dead in the center of the village. Kerrey himself admits as much. If, as Kerrey claims, his squad fired into to the village from several hundred yards outside it, how did the dead end up tightly grouped? Was everyone just standing around waiting to get shot?

Kerrey's squad member has testified that those people were ordered out of their hootches into the center of the village by Kerrey and his men after the squad entered the village. What happened next is open to debate, but the fact that the villagers all ended up dead is not. And Kerrey's claim of longrange fire is clearly false.

[angkor]

Only problem with your take on the Bob Kerrey incident is that the female witness in some vital respects has been corroborated by a member of Kerrey's own squad.

It doesn't matter. She is self-admitted VC. The whole village was VC. They weren't "collaborators," they were combatants. They weren't innocent, they were an actual fighting force arrayed against their fellow citizens of the RSVN to install a communist government.

I know a little about what the VC were and were not. My wife is Vietnamese.