LA Times Dumpster Diving Update
From August 8th:
LA Times Goes Dumpster Diving: Redux Vietnam
I guess the LAT’s hasn’t found enough to smear the Military with Iraq and Afghanistan. They’ve now gone dumpster hunting to dredge up new stories of horror from the Vietnam War. I’m sure if this gains any legs (which I doubt it will), there will be enough Veterans who will disprove the charges and anecdotal reports.
Well, Thunderrun has posted an update to this story. And guess what? The primary researcher for the story written by the LAT’s was…….
snip…… The only “news” presented in the article was that documents on file in the National Archives appear to support the claim of James Henry, then a 20-year old medic, to have witnessed a war crime in the province of Quang Nam.
Why would the Times make available 4,400 words of valuable space to allow a relatively obscure researcher to expound his theories about the Vietnam War? Because James Henry was one of the men who testified at the Vietnam Veterans Against the War’s signature “war crimes” propaganda effort, the “Winter Soldier Investigation,” held in Detroit in early 1971.
Henry’s own story predated the VVAW event, and was already being investigated by the Army at that time. snip….
Color me unsurprised that the LAT’s has another agenda driven “expose” on the military. Really, what good is truth and honesty or transparency in a story. How could that help the LAT’s smear Veterans, especially when the point of the story is to smear Veterans.
I encourage you to read the original story from August 8th and then read the follow up by Thunderrun.
