I Was Just Following Orders???

In Vietnam, on 16 March 1968, a Company of US Army soldiers killed between 347 and 504 civilians, almost all women, children, and elderly men (no one is sure of the exact number) at My Lai.

The US soldiers said they'd been in a fierce fight with the Viet Cong, but in November, 1969, Seymore Hersh wrote that the Company of US soldiers had killed unarmed civilians who were no threat to the soldiers. 

After most accepted the Hersh version as accurate, the US Army declared this a war crime and held a few men responsible. Twenty six were tried, but only Lieutenant Calley was found guilty, sentenced to Life in Prison, held (more or less) under House Arrest for three and a half years, then released after his sentence was commuted.

US soldiers are now taught that they must never obey illegal orders, like the one given to kill those unarmed Vietnamese civilians.

Raising the question: have US servicemen been given illegal orders to kill unarmed fishermen off the coast of Latin America?

Officially, the answer is, 'Not at all. Those are heavily armed drug dealers, carrying cargoes of illegal drugs that kill millions of Americans every year, and they must be stopped. Since we have irrefutable proof that they are heavily armed drug traffickers, orders to kill them are legal orders that must be obeyed!'

Some ask, 'Can we see the proof that they are heavily armed drug traffickers?' Obviously, a ridiculous question, all that information is Classified TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR, so it can never be revealed to anyone without a TS/SCI/NOFORN/BBR Clearance and a Need to Know. And all those people say they have seen the proof and it is irrefutable, so those orders were absolutely legal and must be obeyed.

Those who have not seen that Classified Proof keep saying those men might have been just fishermen, there is no proof they were armed or carrying illegal drugs, and even if they were armed and carrying illegal drugs, the appropriate action would have been to stop the boats (an armoured military vessel could have approached the boats without risking the lives of the sailors inside the vessel), then, from inside the armoured boat, demanded to see if the men on the boats had any weapons, and, if they had weapons and refused to throw all weapons overboard, then it would have been legal to kill them all, but not to kill them all by bombing or shelling them without any inspection, but that's not how the US military, the most advanced and reliable and law-abiding military the world has ever seen, deals with heavily armed terrorists carrying drugs that kill millions of Americans every year.

And everyone should know that the American military would never tell a lie about having irrefutable proof that all those killed were all heavily armed terrorists carrying tonnes of illegal drugs that kill millions of Americans every year.

More to the point, of course, is that in 1999, Hugo Chávez stole all the American oil in Venezuela and squandered the money on the ordinary Venezuelan people (the US had been paying the government of Venezuela a lot of money to let US oil and banana companies take all the oil and bananas they wanted). Venezuelan oil is very sour, and the only refineries that could process it were in the US, plus one set up by a US firm in Venezuela. Of course, after Chávez stole the oil, the US stopped refining it or maintaining the refinery in Venezuela, which soon stopped working.

In 2002, the US overthrew the illegal Chávez regime for two whole days, until the Venezuelan military freed Chávez and restored him to power until his death in 2013, after which Maduro took over as Dictator of Venezuela and continued to claim that all that American oil belonged to the Venezuelan people.

As it happens, there are now two countries that can process Venezuelan crude, and, for reasons that escape us all, a third country, Russia, say they are allied with Venezuela, so both Russia and the nation that is buying and refining just about all the Venezuelan oil (and paying for it) are in egregious violation of the Monroe Doctrine, and both must be stopped.

The US plan to make the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize the legal Venezuelan Head of State and she got her Peace Prize for saying that every drop of oil in Venezuela belongs to the rightful owners, US oiligarchs.

So all decent people hope she becomes the Venezuelan Head of State ASAP.