The Worst Noel

Dec 22, 2010 13:40

"The villages that I have seen raided in the last six months may or may not have harbored VC before we raided them; they all did by the time we had finished."--A GI's letter published in the newsletter of Contra Costa, California Citizens Against the War in Vietnam, February 1967, quoted in Michael Parenti, The Anti-Communist Impulse
"A sardonic saying favored by the Saigon police was: 'If they are innocent beat them until they become guilty.'"--Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism: The Political Economy of Human Rights: Volume I

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