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America's credibility and the torture scandal

Indian Country Today (Lakota Times),  June, 2004  by Mohawk, John

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Mohawk, John Indian Country Today (Lakota Times) 06-09-2004 The lessons of Vietnam seem lost in the story of the second Iraq war. In Hanoi stands an institution with a title that translates roughly to the American war crimes against the Vietnamese Museum. Inside are walls of grisly photographs of the massacre at My Lai and pictures of American soldiers torturing and otherwise abusing Vietnamese prisoners.

The pictures bear an uncomfortable resemblance to recent photos of the goings-on in Abu Ghraib Prison in Iraq. In the first instance, the American leadership expressed a fear ...

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