Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has come out with his latest project; 18 hours trying to explain the Vietnam war. One early review I read suggested that nothing is really ever explained, understood or concluded in the series, much like a snake eating it’s own tail.
One of the most strident criticisms comes from Douglas Valentine, author of “The Phoenix Program”, detailing the CIA’s interrogation and assassination teams that terrorized the Vietnamese population. Valentine also wrote “The CIA As Organized Crime”, which I am reading now and will review soon.
In the short video below, my friends at “Our Hidden History” interview Valentine regarding what he expects the documentary to distort or leave out. Valentine speaks powerfully about the war being one gigantic psychological operation, against the Vietnamese people and more importantly against the American population at home. He describes how the CIA ran the operation from 1948 to 1965, when the Pentagon sent troops in – and even more strongly from ’67 on when the Phoenix Program began it’s dirty work. Valentine also suggests using sources like the despicable Donald Gregg from the CIA is sure to lead to disinformation in the narrative.
Valentine lands some heavy body blows on Burns, and promises to do a return interview after the series gets underway. Please watch the interview below, and visit the links to see more from “Our Hidden History” .
“Our Hidden History” Youtube Channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfzszfxZr4qmeZjZ_3R_Pw
Audio archive
https://archive.org/details/@altviewstv-fanclub?and[]=mediatype%3A%22audio%22
“Our Hidden History.org” Website
http://ourhiddenhistory.org/
There they were in Vietnam
a sorry adventure by the liars in Congress and in the Pentagon
There was the military in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos
so the slaughter went on and on
Over there we saw American soldiers falling to the ground
you know a hundred here some more over there
Hamburger Hill
Over here they flew the flags and partied on
Over there Bob Hope said hey now we support ya
then Raquel Welsh danced on stage and the soldiers watched
as she showed her ass under those red cute panties
all right guys get your sorry selves back to the rice patties
get you some wounds and kill more people and get ‘Charlie’
there ‘brave’ ‘men’ like McCain dropped bombs from the air
and I was asking hey coward how many children and families did you kill today
it’s like a game hey hey
over there there were some American troops that sincerely thought that they were defending America
so I asked hey hey see any armies threatening America no way
no but the cold war military-industrial complex said who cares
what the hell I said didn’t Ike warn ya
there in Vietnam we had the village of My Lai where dozens of American soldiers raped young girls and killed over 300 villagers
there in Vietnam there were other villages burned with murder of children their mothers and the elders
Over there American planes dropped chemical/poison agent orange and others to kill plants crops and that also gave the Vietnamese people diseases
what type of humans think of these things don’t you have a conscience but then
over there there was a hero that was helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson who flew over My Lai saw the U.S. soldiers slaughtering the villagers children and old woman and said to the head criminals Captain Ernest Medina and 2nd Lieutenant William Calley
that basically you stop the murders or my helicopter gunners will stop you now
Over there the end came in 1975 and it was get outta Dodge bye
but did anyone say to the Vietnamese we destroyed much of your country and brought you misery and killed you by the hundred’s of thousands sorry
no no sorry no money for rebuilding bye we’re in a hurry
ah but back home in the good ‘ol USA it was shitheads McCain and the politicians and the military Brass enjoying cocktails and bimbo bitches and fat checks
so see ya later ‘Charlie’ and you ‘Gooks’
-‘Charlie’ was a name used by the Americans for the Vietnamese Viet Cong fighters and ‘Gook’ was a derogatory term for the Vietnamese people-
And remember there were genuine hero’s like Hugh Thompson and I would have been honored if I could have shaken his hand and said “good man, Thank You.”