Calley Apologizes for 1968 My Lai Massacre. Democracy Now 8/24/09 

The fact he was not executed is a disgrace.

Yeah. This bastard is a disgrace to humanity and should have never been let go. I don't know how could Nixon and Ford just let him go like that.

Michael Ninethousand His karma will take care of him real good in hell. No need to kill that turd.

@@cnn787-i9e lucifer really like to have this guy down there

@@blockmaster7777 he deserves it.

Concepts like hell are perhaps comforting, but it's a delusion. Regardless, if you're talking about Christian hell, he wouldn't be going there if he repented/was-forgiven (which doesn't take much at all; that's one of the hooks people use to get people into Christianity). There's only one unforgivable sin, and it's not that (it's blasphemy against the holy spirit). The lack of such realms is exactly why humans should be dealt with while they are living on this "material" world (the only known world). That said, people should not be punished much or at all out of vengeance, but rather rehabilitated (although if they re-offend or make no progress in rehabilitation it makes sense for them to outright be killed)

Hes still alive

To be fair, often times the VC & NVA used villagers both old and young to plant traps and spy under fear of death. The Taliban does the same thing even now. It doesn’t make what happened acceptable, but it is what it is.

Kaitlin Willoughby Look, I get where you’re coming from (vulgar as your discourse may be), and I’m not saying that any of this is good or acceptable, but it happened and it happened for a multitude of reasons. This type of behavior has happened as long as war has been around. The Japanese in Nanking, the Nazis in Russia, the Russians in Germany. Hell, look at the Mongol empire under Genghis Khan! The NVA and the VC absolutely used civilian women and children to set traps, that is without question. Did all the civilians (men women and children) deserve the atrocities they suffered...of course not. I stand by what I said, this is a part of history and it is what it is. Sorry if that’s not good enough for you.

Kaitlin Willoughby Jesus Christ lady, I’m not trying to justify anything about it, simply to demonstrate that it has happened during wars throughout the entire history of mankind. War is bad, people do bad things. It’s always been like that and it always will be like that.

@@Dumpweed971 And what happened to those nazi and Japanese. The allies Hung them dead. Should of Hung this fool too if you want to be consistent in your argument.

@@martymcfly5423 It is not acceptable to use the defence - I was following orders. That was discredited at Nuremberg trials. Murder by soldiers is never defensible. The soldiers were responsible no one else

Calley was sentenced to serve 20 years of something (prison or labour) but only served bloody 3

@@deedee9992 And receive a bloody presidential pardon

Oh no, did Hugh Thompson die of cancer aged 67? The hero pilot who saved so many?

@@deedee9992 He was only in prison for 3 DAYS, the 3 years of his sentence that he served were in house arrest. Hell is truly too good for this piece of shit.

@@deedee9992 I may be mistaken, but it may have been 3 month's rather than years.

+TruthSeekingMissile Yeah he still goes with the "just following orders" argument. Utter bullshit. People watched as he shot old men, women and children. He doesn't give a fuck

Calley's apology appears to have been in the passive voice. He's sorry for 'what happened' not for what he did.

Oh yeah all of them was explaining by they just did their duty and what was the command. I think the german soldiers did the same in ww2 what is the problem then?

Unless anyone has been in a similar situation you can not speak of what you would have done. Of all the soldiers involved why was he the only one charged. In my opinion used him as a scapegoat to feed the lust of the anti-war groups in America at the time.

press were not allowed in with cameras. supposedly, one reporter secretly took notes. We will never know the truth

President Nixon pardoned him

Bondi Trump recently pardoned war criminals who killed civilians in Afghanistan. This is what happens in unjust wars.

Bondi they shouldn’t. Article 2 of the constitution mentions that presidents “shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offenses against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment.” But war crimes are crimes against humanity, not the United States. Just another example of how corrupt our country has become.

pavelthehirimb2331 Here's another question: Why are you such a hypocrite?

@The Texan You mean the guy I was speaking of? That's a rhetorical question. You're talking like one act of hypocrisy is okay, ("capitol punishment"), as long as a lot of babies were murdered. It isn't; hypocrisy is hypocrisy and it's an abomination unto God.

@Chun Chung Chau Exactly. I want to see a President run with arresting this man in their platform. Every President since Nixon has let this man escape the consequences for his actions.

Hugh Thompson is no longer here but he is. It really makes you sad. This guy is literally in charge for the destruction of a village of innocent defenseless civilians but still gets to live life normally.

It was not a harmless village

@@peter455sd Oh really, how do you know that ?

@@peter455sd Yes all those children under 3yrs old were a threat to all those love starved soldiers. Rape and murder went down there.....own it

Blind Patriotism

Who DID

more like where he will get executed(which he deserved much worse than that)

Absolutely. Germans have been tried for far less. Let the Vietnamese have the bastard.

Exactly, We still extradite Nazi War criminals who are in their 90s for the Holocaust, send his ass back to Vietnam

Elite Dota Pro and they were raped

Elite Dota Pro some of them had Viet Cong ties

+stitch piana Yes. they were brutally raped and tortured.

Really Kenshin1998? That's fascinating. Which of those toddlers had "Viet Cong ties" -- you stupid POS?

Elite Dota Pro ooh well!! Collateral damage dumbass! Its combat!

War creates monsters of us all.

Some were pedophiles who got there chance and excuse to act on there urges. 7 year old girls getting raped then shot in the head point blank.

@roger murtaugh i do not doubt some where, i think not all would of been though.

they should have been executed. that proves how dirty that government is: they covered them up.

@@MusMasi only few become monsters. others are already before it happen and the majority becomes just used to fighting (not massacring). even heroic veterans of ww2 of all sides would be disgusted with this.

We’ve been a lot more accountable during the GWOT thankfully, but the fact that past massacres like this have never been formally apologized for is absolutely disgusting. Truth be told, our way of fighting war - bombing the fuck out of civilian and military targets alike - is despicable yet it happens all the time, which is why our leaders are so eager to sweep unjust civilian deaths like this under the rug.

The TRUTH that you'll never be told is that you cannot blur the lines between actual combat where civilian casualties may occur (like happened a LOT during WWII), and a free fire massacre like My Lai. There are distinctions that happen, lines that get crossed, and just general confusion about what the hell is going on among those in combat and the effectiveness of the operation keeps blurring and coming back into focus. General war and massacres are never really known until the outcome.

They protect their own.

Because the high Brass doesn't want to hear it!!

they killed little girls and boys, babies, mothers with babies and old ladies... WC deserves hell...

when we die we will just jump up and down to get him deeper.

Andrea B. what are you even talking about? waiting where? Are you assuming people are such hypocrites, that they can't find forgiveness within their hearts? Stop being such a virtue-signalling, negative-Nancy.

@@danielcalvi500 That's for God to decide, isn't it? Do you even know if he has repented for this? Do you even know what kind of living-hell he's been in, dealing with it. No, you don't so stop being a hypocrite, lest you end up in Hell yourself. God hates hypocrites. Love what God loves and hate what God hates.

A mix of politics, the fog of battle and extenuating circumstances ... but mostly politics.

Seán Quinn he was sentenced to life in prison, but the sentenced kept getting reduced until it was just three years of house arrest, and Nixon gave him a presidential pardon.

Seán Quinn because you know, war, and he didn't kill americans, and he received orders, all bullshit like that.

Seán Quinn "NIXON"

Seán Quinn I'm not saying it was aliens but it was aliens.

Oh, it was a lot more than 102. A lot more.

Yeah - I thought it was at first, then I saw a pic of a monument at the site claiming 102. More reading has given a figure of up to 500. Terrible and unexcusable action.

It was 507 people they killed

lol jh lay down that crack pipe the viets where never going to invade the USA they were never any threat to the freedom of the US. Jim Fortaleza the USA does nothing to the war criminals because no other human nation would do the same, you are like the rest of us, but we howl for the blood of anyone who ever committed a perceived slight against own own. Thats humanity

Correct

16-12-2019 you can see war only doesn't bring evil...simply humans are evil.

U dont seem to understand buddy, I actually want war atrocities to happen. Why? Because then I have a good excuse to do the exact same thing right back. An eye for an eye they say. In this day and age unfortunately we have to look like the victim to justify our horrific actions. In reality the VC were happy that My lai happened, because then they looked more justified to commit some of the most HORRIFIC atrocities known to man. I WANT war crimes to happen because then I would be able to justify my actions in the name of Justice, when in reality its just a front to hide my deep, dark, sadistic, sickening human urges. I want to blow people's brains out and burn them alive inside a house and disembowel them and skin them alive and hang them and tryout all different types of methods and ways of killing, ALL in the name of Justice.

@@Jareers-ef8hp go to hell

@@catherine8327 Looks like someone's triggered, I dont regret what I said

@@Jareers-ef8hp what the fuck is this shit

For them to say they relive it every day.... it isn't enough. What would these "soldiers" , from high ranks down to the grunts that did this, what would they say if their families, children, grandchildren were all huddled together into a ditch and treated the same, while they watched. That's one for them to chew on.

yeah yeah by himself he killed 500+ people ...no problem. look at the photos they were not all in a ditch where they were killed...they were scattered around the village, some had been raped - you can see in the pictures - and the video has disappeared....cause there was a video done by Ronald Haeberle; read about him he says he couldn't share it. how atrocious could it be!?!??

David Woodley you don't know what you're talking about. It had nothing to do with terrorists. It was about young soldiers in a jungle environment they could not relate to or understand who didn't have a clue who they were fighting, no team jerseys, irratic direction from the higher ups, in a nightmare they couldn't find their way out of. It was a sick and twisted war that was, again, based on oil and was started by the French who somehow we were obligated to support after the North Vietnamese sank a boat carrying 6 people; the very notion that it was about "fighting communism" is the same kind of bullshit that was fed to the American people about the Iraq war being about searching for WMDs that they never found, but swore were there....it's about lies and deception, using kids from blue collar families as cannon fodder to symbolically throw the weight of the US Army in the face of a country the size of Pennsylvania under the guise of "fighting Communism." To me, the Viet Nam war was one of the worst mistakes, the worst travesties this country ever committed. Don't get me wrong--I have ultimate respect for our brilliant, dedicated troops and how they operate under stress and pressure, but when they are sent on errands of those who have never seen battle and risk their lives for absolutely NOTHING but the whims of those who think it's a good idea, it is a sick and abusive waste of their dedication and worth as soldiers. . The Tonkin Gulf Resolution illustrates all of this. It is complete and total bullshit. Another fine example of all of this is illustrated in the documentary film about the War in Afghanistan, "Restrepo." Watch it. Pay close attention. Take notes. I could only watch it once, it broke my heart and I cried for days. Beautiful marines being sent to their death for absolutely no good reason. And it is the cause of our present day situation with ISIS. But Viet Nam had nothing to do with that. This is not to say that Calley had a right to do what he did--he was in no posiiton to lead, and what he did is a sick reflection of that.

Stephen Pasko ...they gang raped 13 year old vietnamese girls before killing them in my lai. what necessitated that dummy?

Shadman Ahmed you missed my point. You are comparing apples to oranges. What caused the formation of ISIS has absolutely zero to do with what soldiers did during the My Lai massacre. I've read about it in depth. Have you? That's like comparing Nazi criminals to ISIS, like My Lai, both are about heinous crimes against innocent people, but one has nothing to do with the other. And I'm not taking the bait by you calling me "dummy." Grow up and read a book.

Stephen Pasko Odds are I am more educated than you. I did not mention ISIS in my comment at all. You try to justify the heinous acts committed in My Lai by saying that they did not know who they were fighting and it was the jungle environment. I wanted to assert the gang rapes since gang rapes cannot be justified in war.

Stephen Pasko

Everyone knew about the massacre fifty years ago. Weak point.

@@peteswafflemeyer5620 What is YOUR point?? Everyone knew about it 50 years ago...and?

Hell has a special place for him.

sadly there is no god so he has gone scot free for these war crimes.

Always question things

Yeah, try being in the Army in a foreign country and question your CO. You might be the one that ends up dead by one of your own guys. No thanks. Shoot first, ask questions later, that's how it's done. Doesn't make it right, but in the military it's your job to do what you're told no matter what, and you will do it or face being shot in the back or fragged some night when you're asleep.

When you realise it is your "job" to kill (innocent) people, you might want to switch jobs...

Ben Zielke Can't be called a soldier and a hero at the same time. There are no heroes of war.

Actually there are. The guy who pulls you out of a firefight after your hit and your down and cant move and your dead meat if you dont get the hell out of there and he puts his ass on the line to pull you out of there is a hero in my book.

we shouldn't be shocked by the lies our govt pedals in all arenas to serve their self interest. imagine how many atrocities were covered up.

Command problem

You got that right.The entire Americal chain of command knew what had happened and transferred the guilty troops to other units to hide them from the press.I was at LZ Dottie and watched as the coverup took place.I'm heartsick to this day and feel shame and revulsion at being a silent bystander

According to another article, he has no remorse. He just wants people off his back, the poor, poor, guy.

doesn’t surprise me! When the majority of white America, at that time praised Jim Crow laws and segregation, as well as hating on Asians, in general, it doesn’t surprise me That they would defend a murderer.

It wasn't until relatively recently that Korean War massacres of civilian refugees came to light.

NOT REAGAN, NOT NIXON, IN THIS DAYS THE PRESIDENT OF UNETED STATES WAS LINDON-B-JOHNSON.

@@migueltorres6026 Pardon?

Shouldn't surprise you America has always protected white men

Correct.

Nah. It's buried too deep in him. It's in there, but too deep to appear. He's one of the most repressed souls of modern history.

I really wonder why...maybe because i don't live in the US....

Americans are an exception. "America is an exceptional nation" was constantly being mouthed by Barrack Obama. So the common rules of sensitivity, decency and fair play doesn't apply to them.

He served 3 years. He was sentenced to life.

Deena McCarthy You are correct, they wanted to hang Calley, literally. The truth to them was fairness, if you hang Calley, that means many more should also be hung. God will deal with them. It was tragic but leaders decided to pardon him. How many other Calleys came back? Thousands, Warpigs or MIC millitary idustrial complex is more to blame it seems. Why kill Asians for freedoms blacks dont even have was the argument.

Fuck you punk boy you took lives you had no right beaing in command because I know

The one who uncovered it right then and there was the helicopter pilot, while this guy stood and clicked.

Correct. Totally hosed. This has been going on since WAR has been recorded.

He was not a scapegoat. I know.

That’s understandable. It was an awful war.

@@capncake8837There is no excuse for killing women and children.

So where was the quality leadership? Sitting out this war.

I hope to God the US military has learned from this and prosecuted better after. SHAMEFUL !!!!

I looked up the numbers... 1.35m died in the Vietnam war... including hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese civilians.

Pretty much, I am a Vietnam veteran. That war was a great crime see Dell Wright's comment.

I certainly understand the psychological aspect of the situation, but it doesn't justify killing innocent men, women and children. I understand why it happened, but it doesn't make it right.

Shut up

He was thinking about politics and votes, which was the main thing he thought about. Calley has a very large number of supporters in the U.S.A. in 1971 in states important to Nixon's re-election campaign -- Ohio, Pennsylvania, etc. Such was the confusion of the times.

+goldenboy 85 what's the deal with the caps and its war don't expect good shit to come from it like come on war has been happening since the beginning of time you'd think by now everyone can just expect that things happen and people die if you can't accept it then you need help cause your future is ducked if you keep thinking like that

You are right, however that does not excuse the actions of those at My Lai

Yeah of course. but it doesnt mean people can label the whole US and all the soldiers with that brush. Over 2 million people served in vietnam and 99 % had nothing to do with those crimes.

My lai My lai My lai ....after most of us returned and were spat on and abused we hadnt even heard of what went on there. my lai is what alot of people label vietnam it was a decade long war ffs.

Budha Misapa My Lai was symptomatic of a much wider disease, which is white USican racism. When you invaded the Phlls you committed a genocide that killed 3 million people (which is nothing compared to what you did to the people who actually own the land you live on). you have no busness being in Vietnam tt all and you deliberately faked a reason to engage in war there. You seriously imagine you would have done that in Norway? Ireland? No because the people who live there are white. But it's quite all right to kill as many people who are not white as you like. Calley, and his men, should have died in prison. Instead Nixon released Caller, the only one who was charged -- and that only when the story came out, after a year of being suppressed. Today you are doing the exact same thing in Syria. You destroyed Libya. You destroyed Iraq. You don't care who you kill if they are not white, and you don't care how many. And then you have the fucking gall to say that Europe should deal with the refugee crises that YOUR GENOCIDES have caused. The day white USicans begin to disregard the colour of other people's skins, you might start to heal. But see no evidence of that happening. Don't try to claim victim status here. Your country is a disgrace. Accept your guilt like a man.

Where do you stop it? The night before? The morning of? When getting off the choppers? After the first shot? Were there no adults in charge?