Comment on YSK: The US massacred hundreds & raped children as young as 12 in one day. Only one perpetrator was convicted - later commuted by President Nixon.

dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And that is the very few we know of, the more you learn about these, the more clear it becomes they cover them up unless they definitively can’t. What we know barely scratches the surface of American terrorism and atrocities.

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I have a rule of “the stuff we know is never as bad as the stuff we don’t, and we’ll never know most of the stuff we already don’t” for things like this.

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• RaoulDuke85@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The military had a sex trafficking and drug trade during the Iraq war.

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  • bearboiblake@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That sounds like something that We Should Know

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    • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Read The Fort Bragg Cartel if you want more info on this.

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      • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Why do I have that feeling that they’ll do it in Iran as well…

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      • hyperencabulator@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Is that what the Denzel Washington-Russel Crowe movie, American Gangster was based on?

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    • RaoulDuke85@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sorry trying to find article. I think it was US contractors doing it. Either way.

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