1. Nie znam państwa które nagłaśniało by swoje zbrodnie.

Nikaragui i każdego innego państwa na świecie w historii. Gdyby naparwdę Amerykanie chcieli skutecznie wyciszyć sporawę w My Lai, nikt by się o tym nie dowiedział.

A My Lai jest powszechnie znane bardziej niż jakikolwiek inny epizod wojny w Wietnamie. I nawet dziecko wie że  w My Lai "Amerykańcy zamordowali cywilów"

2. Oczywiście że jest to pokrętne wytłumaczenie, ale jest. Nie oznacza ono jednak iż Amerykanie byli krwiożerczymi bestiami, ani nie oznacza iż byli aniołkami, byli ludźmi.

Poza tym My Lai mimo wszystko było wyjątkiem.

Absolutnie nie było moją intencją usprawiedliwianie sprawców masakry.

3. Kilka lat spędził w więzieniu, kilka w areszcie domowym, brak mi wiedzy o przesłankach jego zwolnienia. Karę jednak poniósł i świat dowiedział się iż My Lai było jego sprawką. Trezeba by jego zapytać jak żyje mu się z tą świadomością.

W moich postach staram się tylko zaznaczyć jedno. Generalnie wojna wietnamska rozpatrywana jest w kategoriach "huzia na józia" albo wszyscy jedziemy po złych, imperialistycznych amerykanach, albo po złych, internacjonalistycznych komuchach.

Rozmawiamy o USA i plamach w historii tego kraju, bo takie plamy są na generalnie jasnej tkaninie. O Wietnamie Północnym nie ma w ogóle co rozmawiać - to były wykolejone potwory a zbrodnie wojenne były ich rutynowym sposobem postępowania. I tyle, po rozmowie.

Oliver Stone is closing a deal with United Artists to finance Pinkville, where he will direct the Vietnam War drama about the investigation of the 1968 My Lai massacre, according to Variety. The film would be distributed through MGM.

Bruce Willis and Channing Tatum will star. Mikko Alanne wrote the script.

A UA commitment could be finalized this week, putting the picture into production by early next year, with a budget of roughly $40 million.

It marks the fourth time Stone has directed a film in the backdrop of the Vietnam War. Pinkville also reunites the director with Tom Cruise, who with partner Paula Wagner is a co-owner of UA, and who starred in Stone's Born on the 4th of July.

Willis will play Army General William R. Peers, who supervised the investigation into the massacre by U.S. soldiers of as many as 500 My Lai villagers, most of them unarmed women, children and elderly.

Tatum will play Hugh Thompson, a helicopter pilot who, upon realizing what was happening below, put a stop to the killing by placing his craft between gunmen and the few villagers who were left, and telling his two shipmates to fire on the soldiers if they shot any more people. They airlifted the survivors and reported the carnage to superiors.

Pinkville is the description on a military map for the region where My Lai is.

Over 14 weeks, Lt General William Peers and his panel took statements from 403 witnesses: soldiers, senior officers, chaplains, journalists and Vietnamese. The findings of the investigation were so uncomfortable for the US Military they were suppressed. Some 400 hours of tape were recorded - and classified. Until now.

The accounts are shocking:

"The first shot hit a baby in the head and I turned around and (was) sick" - one soldier. Another: "Most people in our company didn't consider the Vietnamese human…..A guy would just grab one of the girls there and ….they shot the girls when they got done."

The tapes of the Peers Inquiry prove that US soldiers raped and killed hundreds of civilians in not just one but three villages that day. They prove that two companies - not only the infamous Charlie Company - were involved. They show how badly trained and ignorant of the laws of war many of the young soldiers were. These tapes also prove that the orders "to leave nothing alive" came from senior officers.

Documentary evidence from US Army archives shows, however, that the Peers report misrepresented a key directive from the top commander in Vietnam, General William C Westmoreland, describing it as calling for a blanket policy of humane treatment of civilians in villages controlled by the communist movement.

The directive in question, a copy of which has been obtained by Inter Press Service, makes it clear that the policy of humane treatment did not extend to civilians in areas which had been under long-term communist rule, as was the case with My Lai. That revelation would have placed the responsibility for the orders on the My Lai operation squarely on Westmoreland's shoulders.