gallons of agent orange which contains the lethal chemical dioxin on vietnam cambodia laos and thailand not just jungles were sprayed three thousand one hundred eighty one villages and as many as two million people were also directly sprayed this spring continued long after the in the east and american doctors began reporting the destructive effects on humans and for nearly two hundred years after american scientists proved the agent orange connection to birth defects general william westmoreland was picked to run the war. i can say categorically that he never and the history of warfare certainly never in this trail of the use of american arms. as more attention then given to the thought it's a civilian casualty is the way did it not. from the top down the orders came

and then the body count became the most important statistic of the war and search and destroy became the operational method for increasing it. if a battalion commander or a company commander figures cade we're told that everybody's enemy. and we can get this big body count which was the number one career enhanced meant statistic in vietnam. for example we get this report of a v.c. . or we don't have any evidence that it was at the scene no weapon no equipment no nothing you know just a suspicious situation if it's just counted which it is counted and condoned then there are elements of people.

down at that level that would figure hey that's an easy way to get a body count. testimony at the winter soldier hearing in one thousand nine hundred seventy one revealed some of the atrocities this policy led to. some testimony here on the burning of villages cutting off a tree not with colleen artillery on villages for games women raped napalm on villages could you go into just a few of these to let the people know how you treat to be enemy civilians. the calling of artillery for games the way it was work would be the mortar forward observers would call in art and we'd pick out certain houses and villages fairly quickly and border forward observers would call in force until they are in that house and then that artillery forward observer would call it artillery until he destroyed another house and whoever used the least amount of artillery they were

going to get back some would have to buy some real fear. in this video we used testimony from many sources to bring home the ground truth of the war in vietnam this is what it was like on the receiving end of an artillery game. how they directed artillery fire into the area where i live the. yeah absolutely they call all the houses and trees were destroyed and that. i am. not also to the. homes of. peace kerosene and gasoline and so their homes first into flames when they were hit by the rockets the yellow but some. do not. yet. old folks children and pregnant women who could not sleep in their home.

heating pad two. you must tax dollars went directly to increasing the body count to the vietnamese and became the currency of the kill sky king some most emaciated scary looking individual i think i've ever seen in my life. he was a mercenary and. they got paid by the years that they produced peers of yours as a navy seal p.r. you advisor makes clear these rules were set from the top p.r. you was the in-force mint on the phoenix program and the phoenix program was the cia organized program of assassination and terror in vietnam among other things americans on these teams would often carry out operations while dressed to look

like the vietcong they brought back a gun they got paid for it if they brought back a prisoner they got paid for. bringing back the whole prisoner they used to get paid for bringing back identifiable parts ok i didn't set these rules up this is the rules that they're that they played by when you try to change those rules you're going to resistance i didn't want people bringing me back years and me having to pay for it. i don't want to live people dead people. here's a story from a cia agent in vain long. i was sitting in there and we had an old french villa we. were these irregulars came in with the district girl as she just you know. just come back from a battle they had five or six weapons and they threw the weapons down and they were

just discussing with the whole situation they were going to prove something came up through a bag on the table and the bag had eleven ears on it and he just looked at us and said you don't need to. well. the winter soldier hearings looked into the treatment of these p.o.w.'s. the episode prisoners. i've never seen and john are. behind me but. we had a couple of guys. from philadelphia. used to blindfold the guys with safety wire and pull. out the light. and bite. and i used

a contest to see if they could throw the bodies out of the airplane and throw out a surprise and. the american soldiers they took care of p.o.w.'s in vietnam like to take pictures so the winter soldier hearings involved a few slides. ok there is an interrogation going on here it's a big production and these are all the marines sitting around giving the various. this man here is a warrant officer. typical. that these are national field police this man came over. and put a. ten spoon is a vietnamese spoon and he put it in my fire and he's burning the skin off the back of the man's neck. and finally the man in fear of his i admitted that one time he had given text to the v.c.

but you can't prove that i heard earlier today that they used to be swell marines used about a c. s. this particular man wouldn't come out of the hole and they threw two c. s. going either i personally scored in this man back to division and he died gas doesn't kill i don't know it killed him. to serve in the us did you really want to show. the first slide you're going to see. shows a prisoner of war and the way that they try to get him to talk. is by making him stand in front of a pile of economy by that we picked up the same p.o.w.'s forced to sit. for probably from six to eight hours by this pile of bodies in the hot sun. shadow of five or six g.i.'s going through the body looking for souvenirs in this

picture there is a lieutenant in a captain overlooking what's going on at. all first there's were present at all times yes the old great officers were present were present. and the next slide is a slide of myself. i'm dreaming shameful of and i'm showing and hope the new people never been involved ever let this happen to you don't let every let your government do this to you come. to. the slaughter was organized from the top you. can't defend a place like that by setting on your daddy box you've got to get out and aggressively patrol and that's what our people are doing and one thing i am precise tell them all i was out there was to find these the congo and tell.

one time i went there to the headquarters for some reason and they had all these boards drawn up are showing the kill ratios in each brigade and seems to me like this. and i'm going on your horn or something and the. search terms people that you were going to keep the territory and he was trying to find them. and kill him and listen to him from the train and i commend our allies for some errors. back in. good numbers the first big hill a copy of the war and that's how much of the killing was done. i was a helicopter. a cobra gunships pilot. i worked with another aircraft at all times in what is called a hundred killer team. i was told. by the other pilots in the unit how to tell a v.c. from a civilian. because they're running they were v.c.

they were standing there they were well just well disciplined v.c. shooter many. people told me that when we were flying over a village or near a village if people started to leave the village civilians. those beside us there were v.c. in the area for that they were expecting a fight. all speaking with those with my boots for me she says when american helicopters come through people run they think they're going to be killed. so you put these two things together and see you know civilians are in kind of a bad spot. the emphasis probably helicopter support. the temperatures ninety five inside to the air conditioned the music is all the states.

in november of sixty eight in an area called the wagon wheel which is northwest of saigon went on a routine search and destroy mission gunships were to be providing security and cover for us in case we had any contact or circling overhead no contact was made and the gunships got bored. so they made a gun run on a coach with many guns and rockets out when they left the area we found. one dead baby which was a young child. very young in its mother's arms and we. we found a baby girl about three years old they were dead. some people fell in love with the technology and. the prisoners that.

we get you are having as you say it is the most feared weapon is that if you do. not have an issue we carry a. little bit of time we can say a station. as many u.s. soldiers in vietnam were infantry their main mission was search and destroy we were given orders whenever we moved into a builders to reconnoitre by prior this means to the we step into ability to fire upon our houses anything to our discretion it looks like there may be someone hiding behind behind or under well sometimes when we come to a village there will be a demeter going out of the bomb shelter you know put fear of being caught so consequently this surprise would start out of any individual and they would automatically turn to fire thereby uselessly killing civilians but i'll give an

image before he opposed the iraq war in the u.s. senate jim webb was a combat marine in vietnam people would flash you have really good people and one individual who was a terrific marine who. we were once one operation and his best friend was killed and we made a sweep two days later through a village and this guy. a civilian was paid back in his own mind he was sort of justifying it and one village we won't. women and kids going into the village and we got in there. and we got in the village i mean another guy we were treating two unconscious babies babies like five six year old kid and a woman lying in a hammock and i told ten of these people have to be evacuated because it's not evacuated this lady had shrapnel on and the kids had shrapnel on them they were unconscious they've been evacuated on to die he said well forget it doctor i have

time to stay and wait they went up on the hill right about this same village and we fired down on this village the next day while people trying to bury the dead we fired down on the village at the people while they were doing their a burial ceremony and we and they killed another face they ran obviously but another of perth in the village. also on we went down that same that same day to get some water and there were two little boys playing on a dice and one sergeant of police and sticks to the shop where the other boy tried to run. it so that. he shot the little boy up. and going to ground kicking i'm going to make sure it's dead. many of the refugees created ended up in the squalor of saigon where morning safer open the c.b.s. news bureau in one nine hundred sixty five. first appeared that the marines had

been snipe gas and that a few houses were made to pay shortly after an officer told me he had orders to go in and leveled a string of hamlets that surrounds needs village and all around the common paddy field that cedes these hamlets. five hundred fifty homes were leveled in retaliation for a burst of gunfire. on the first operation that i was on and country. went into a village called five fingers and it was a typical koran in search which is you surround a village and then you sweep through it and hopefully when you're sweeping if anybody is running from you they're going to run into the of course the surrounding troops on the other side and they get wiped out but we received fire as we walked into the village and we took no casualties but we did end up with

a body count no weapons were found so apparently they were civilians the next day in the morning should i say they rounded up the entire village. all of them. and marched them out you were all prisoners of war all of them men women children made no difference we built to do some apps they were just relocated man just moved away. i have hardly ever heard the term vietnamese they were always. there is no difference between a good one and a bad one except the good one at the time is no weapon but he still fair game. the games that some of the marines in my outfit played myself included would be to find the older papa sound with the long whiskers and which i guess was a symbol of his identity in their culture and they would just be cut they would be

anybody who complained. we would move into a village and we would just step down we own the village while we're here these people would do what we told them or they wouldn't be allowed to stay in their own how are they would be beaten inside the house we were on our first operation and it was it was an operation so it just followed this procedure they were used to and we were just shown how you destroy a village and they just cried and carried on we don't know what happened to them that was the only pillage. immediate vicinity so we clear the area more or less everything is set on fire my squad leader personally ignited the first two and then just told us to take care of the rest. when we went out i would say fifty percent at least of the villages we passed through would be burned to the ground there was no difference between someone we burned and the ones we didn't burn it just put some we had time and we burn.

we came here today to begin an operation aimed at clearing this area and mopping up the viet cong to bring security to all of you. we understand that among you there are some who have naively listened to the viet cong propaganda and have joined the rebels among them are some of your husband's your brothers so please advise them to come back we are ready. during this pacification program to admit them back to society and to assist them. in ninety one children around as the a comic suspects. and the lieutenant around him. as call the caps on the radio and he asked what should be done with them the captain simply repeated the order that

came down from the colonel that morning the order came down the colonel that morning was killing the moves which you can take any way you want to take it and when the captain told lieutenant this then i rang off i got up and i started walking over to the captain thinking that the lieutenant just might do it because i'm going to put to him for a long time. as i started over there the captain i think the captain panicky thoughtfully damn i do it too and this was a little more atrocious and the other executions that our company participated in only because of the numbers. but the captain tried to call him up try to get him back on the horn and wouldn't he couldn't get a hold of him. and i was walking over to my turn i looked in the area i looked where the v.c.s. were supposed to be c.s. and two men are leading a young girl broccoli one thousand years old very pretty out of a hoot she had no clothes on so soon she had been raped which was pretty s.o.b.

and there i would stare operating procedure for civilians. and she was thrown around the pile over ninety women children and five men around the circle open up on full automatic with sixty. for every film that we see here for a railroad trestle illusion river on each side that is nearly currently very treacherous to late people really rarely side we just really really like the newspaper said operations to rake world war two movie theater we set up there with the movie we will show to. two million people who. are the americans well they burned and destroyed and killed. i didn't see anything real and. only barely.

when tells us that out of one hundred seven villages in this area. and six were burned to the ground some of them many times over. this area was a free fire zone. anything that moves could be shot. you saw a good stand ten feet away we got if. these people are aware of one of our soldiers doing so naturally they try to hide the young girls. we found one night in a bar shelter in sort of the basement of rouse. she was taken and raped by six or seven people in front of her family. every one of most of the villagers and. i was just this was in just one instance this is just the first one i can remember i know of thirteen or so i was in just as tense as at least i was really i mean for

goodness. oh. we didn't just call it a serial. all vietnamese and our slant eyes eps there and also there are there were. there are markets where we were a civilized. and out it we don't give a shit about those people. sadly most americans are not aware of how many of the in these were killed in the us in surveys men you put numbers at less than a hundred thousand the shameful facts are that between three and five million vietnamese were killed in that war and the vast majority of them were civilians. after the first gulf war george bush sr announced that vietnam syndrome was buried

in the desert sands of the arabian peninsula. to help us vietnam syndrome presidents reagan and bush. quick military victories against small countries in which thousands of civilians died in grenada panama nicaragua. and el salvador. in reality the vietnam syndrome is a code for the need to induce a kind of national and. about the true shoestring and facts of the vietnam. as with this debacle the iraq war has become we can see that they have been largely successful. and especially around the results in a million iraqis most of them civilians have been killed in the quagmire started with law school and motivated by greed. and the policies that created continue. those who refuse to remember their history are condemned to repeat.

this one must. disclose he must in for all time must not forget. we must learn from it and proceeds. damn. news.

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from russia and around the world this is an see was me thanks for joining us there's been more violence in cairo this time between opponents and supporters of president hosni mubarak for the first time while huge crowds continue to protests demanding his stance down again right now some observers in cairo have claimed those back again on the streets have been paid to show up aussies poulos near has the latest from the egyptian capital the focal point of those clashes came at around midday three thirty cairo time it's not clear who actually started the clashes whether it was pro mubarak demonstrators or anti will by demonstrators but both sides with whom stones of each other people were standing on there just picking up and throwing whatever they could at people down below they were they were instead incidents of people actually picking up road signs and using in the polls of the science to actually hit and strike and other people there are ambulances still on the scene there are mobile clinics that are still operating there treating the several.