My Lai Redeaux?

My Lai Redeaux?

I was listening to Julie Budd on Canadian radio this evening and she may have opened the door to a new revelation that could blow a lot of socks off in coming days. And if it plays, it could constitute the last hand in the end game. .
Listen up. This is what has managed to leak out.
This happened in November and is only coming to light now.

Take one marine on a maneuver outside of Baghdad who is killed by either a bomb or mortar round. After the explosion of the bomb that killed the GI, a second bomb was described by the reconnoitering marine unit. 15 Iraqi’s were reported killed!.

However, those familiar with what happened could not get the facts to balance out.
Something was fishy with the story being handed out by our side.

Word eventually got toTime magazine's Baghdad bureau.. And the chief reporter for Time looked into it. What he came up with caused him to look deeper. He met with the families affected, the doctor who examined the dead at the morgue and others and concluded that it could never have happened the way the marine unit had reported.

According to the doctor who did the post mortems, he said that the results of the examinations did not show signs that shrapnel caused the deaths of so many which would have been consistent with a bomb. In fact, the dead died as a results of shootings; the doctor, upon closer examination, found bullets lodged in their bodies. The dead included women and children and even one old grandfather who was crippled.

On closer examination, the Time senior correspondent said that according to his interviews, the most likely scenario was that the marines, angered by the death of one of their own, went on a killing spree going from household to household and firing automatically without thinking into the houses in seeking revenge and used the second bomb to explain all of the resulting dead..

When asked whether Time had spoken to the marines, he said that he was prevented from so doing when the local commandant learned of the incident and forbid his people to speak to the media.

If the above is true, and the Time senior reporter and his staff feel that it is, how can we not be reminded of My Lai. This sounds like a text book repeat of what happened all those years ago when a US patrol flipped out and unleashed a barrage of fire and destruction among innocents. My Lai, as many of us who were stationed in Asia will recall, helped bring about a whole new way of looking at a war that was being reported clinically by the government while it was tearing us apart as a nation. Attempts at covering up My Lai eventually failed and the story of the attrocities leaked out.

Listening to the whole argument, I was surprised that we’ve heard nothing about this unexplained incident here in the States and I cannot help but remember how the media helped blow the cover on the story then. Will it happen now? Will editors and reporters of good will resurrect honest and objective reporting? Will all of us come out of this feeling good to be an American. Or will we sink deeper into the abyss.

Even the extreme right has to be affected by the unwarranted deaths of innocents!
With My Lai, it woke us up as a nation; will this incident, if it proves true, have the same impact? Who can say but it will force us to revisit the moral grounds for our incursion into a land that did not attack us and had no connection with the terrorists of 9/11..


Les Aaron
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