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Originally Posted by Dave Lane
It showing a general summarily executing a handcuffed prisoner without trial because he was a "bad dude."
Yeah the reporter definitely was at fault.
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Here are the photographer's words:
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The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, "What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?"
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And then after the general died of cancer:
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The guy was a hero. America should be crying. I just hate to see him go this way, without people knowing anything about him.
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