04-01-2011, 08:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-01-2011, 09:17 PM by Jim DiEugenio.)
I am sure everyone missed you Phil.
BTW, if you are using the online version of Valentine's book, which you said you were, then you are wrong. He sources his material to Hersh's book specifically.
He does not name Hersh as the author of those newspaper pieces.
You did not even know that Hersh wrote two books on the subject. I like the way you try and excuse that. You were out of country at the time. Phil, the book is 40 years old. You could not pick it up in a library? I did. If I am going to use a guy as controversial as Hersh to smear JFK, then I want to know if he is credible. You did not seem to care.
And you ignore the long quote I used to show that he was still trying to have it both ways, even in his second book. Even though it was now strongly suspected that the Phoenix Program was behind the massacre. See, what Hersh does in Cover Up is quite clever. And its the only way to reconcile that long quote, which you avoid, with his mentioning of Phoenix. See, he could not avoid the issue now. So he tried to say that Quang Ngai province--which happened later-- was actually a result of Phoenix. But he wants to to keep My Lai in question. Which is why he writes, "There was no conspiracy to destroy the village of My Lai 4..." (p. 97, Cover Up) When in fact, if it was a Phoenix operation, it had to be. Especially in light of the massive cover up which happened afterwards, which resulted in no jail time for anyone.
Dead wrong about the two months also. Take a look when the letter by Ridenhouer went out and how long Hersh took to write his first book.
And keep on ignoring what else I wrote about Hersh Phil: Watergate, KAL OO7, Loomis and when he started the Dark Side of Camelot.
If I were you I would do the same.
BTW, if you are using the online version of Valentine's book, which you said you were, then you are wrong. He sources his material to Hersh's book specifically.
He does not name Hersh as the author of those newspaper pieces.
You did not even know that Hersh wrote two books on the subject. I like the way you try and excuse that. You were out of country at the time. Phil, the book is 40 years old. You could not pick it up in a library? I did. If I am going to use a guy as controversial as Hersh to smear JFK, then I want to know if he is credible. You did not seem to care.
And you ignore the long quote I used to show that he was still trying to have it both ways, even in his second book. Even though it was now strongly suspected that the Phoenix Program was behind the massacre. See, what Hersh does in Cover Up is quite clever. And its the only way to reconcile that long quote, which you avoid, with his mentioning of Phoenix. See, he could not avoid the issue now. So he tried to say that Quang Ngai province--which happened later-- was actually a result of Phoenix. But he wants to to keep My Lai in question. Which is why he writes, "There was no conspiracy to destroy the village of My Lai 4..." (p. 97, Cover Up) When in fact, if it was a Phoenix operation, it had to be. Especially in light of the massive cover up which happened afterwards, which resulted in no jail time for anyone.
Dead wrong about the two months also. Take a look when the letter by Ridenhouer went out and how long Hersh took to write his first book.
And keep on ignoring what else I wrote about Hersh Phil: Watergate, KAL OO7, Loomis and when he started the Dark Side of Camelot.
If I were you I would do the same.