Baby Killers & Collateral Damage: Part 2

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 01:55 AM 4/26/01 -0400, Yoshie quoted:
>*****   New York Times 25 April 2001
>25-year-old lieutenant, Kerrey led a commando team on a raid of an 
>isolated peasant hamlet called Thanh Phong in Vietnam's eastern 
>Mekong Delta. While witnesses and official records give varying 
>accounts of exactly what happened, one thing is certain: around 
>midnight on Feb. 25, 1969, Kerrey and his men killed at least 13 
>unarmed women and children. The operation was brutal; for months 
>afterward, Kerrey says, he feared going to sleep because of the 
>terrible nightmares that haunted him.


>Kerrey -- who left the Senate in January and is now president of the 
>New School University in New York -- says he has spent the last three 

Yet another peculiar American institution: being a war criminal err..
"hero" is a requisite of being a political leader and the president of a
liberal academic institution.  A role model for the New School New
Democrats, indeed.  But hey, liberal pop-psychology is an excellelent
coping tool - it can whitewash and exonerare *aynthing*.

BTW, is it just me, or the louse sounds as if he was answering questions in
a congressional hearing: "i do not remember," "i have no recollection?"  

wojtek