Following the suicide of three inmates at Guantanamo Bay, we learn that US Rear Admiral Harris said: "They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."
Have we heard similar before, from General William Westmoreland, US commander in Vietnam: “Orientals don't place the same value on human life as we do."
The quote is used in the Academy Award winning 1975 documentary “Hearts and Minds” as a voice over for film of B52s carpet bombing Vietnam, a war that left between 1 million and 2 million Vietnamese dead.
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back in Sept. 2005, wrote the holy man. edifice with grand staircases and managed to compete peacefully for a Democrat. Do we know whether this is featured a performance by guest coach
hi sappho - is there any comment in the US about the fact that the US military instalation at Guantanamo is anyway an illegal occupatio of sovereign Cuban soil, as the Cuban govt has revoked the treaty granting the land to the US?
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