Winter Soldier on Sundance right now

[Opusnone]

Highly recommended if you have not seen it.
1972- Vietnam veterans give emotional testimony of alleged war crimes that they either committed or witnessed in a powerful documentary.
Very topical and heart-wrenching.
Including, I believe, John Kerry.

[Monkeyman]

1. Some of us are here on the DU shhhh

[Opusnone]

2. I'll bite

What is the shhhhh?

[Monkeyman]

4. Don't tell Veterans For Truth we are on the DU

[fairfaxvadem]

3. I'm recording it right now.

I wish someone could burn 1,000 dvds of this and hand them out to our troops in Iraq. This is what we'll be hearing from them in a few years. They need to know that another generation has already told the stories that they are next to tell.

[EVDebs]

5. Maybe PBS can replay Stanley Karnow's "Vietnam: A Television History"

Or DUers can read the book (couple hundred pages but well worth it, and it's got pictures too !).

Gut wrenching conclusion with interviews that butress the Winter Soldier testimonies.

Also, someone from PBS should show Bush the Powell Doctrine

""Essentially, the Doctrine expresses that military action should be used only as a last resort and only if there is a clear risk to national security by the intended target; the force, when used, should be overwhelming and disproportionate to the force used by the enemy; there must be strong support for the campaign by the general public; and there must be a clear exit strategy from the conflict in which the military is engaged.""

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/teachers/lessonplans/iraq/powelldoctrine_short.html