Oliver Stone will focus on My Lia Massacre

[Jasman0717 9]

I wonder who will play Medina

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Hollywood director Oliver Stone arrived in Vietnam to research his next film about the Vietnam War, which will focus on the My Lai massacre, local media reported Thursday.

Stone arrived in the central city of Da Nang on Wednesday afternoon and went straight to the site of the 1968 massacre in Quang Ngai province, where U.S. troops killed more than 300 Vietnamese civilians, including many apparently unarmed women and children, Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reported.

The incident provoked international outrage and undermined U.S. support for the war.

Stone, a Vietnam veteran and multiple Oscar winner, has produced three previous movies on the Vietnam War, including Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth.

Stone was accompanied by producer Nicholas Simon, Tuoi Tre reported. "We came to survey the field as part of the preparations for our new movie project, Pinkville," the newspaper quoted Simon as saying.

[almaty 19]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

[garya505 2]

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

[Jasman0717 9]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

[almaty 19]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

[Jasman0717 9]

I don't mind another movie on Viet Nam, I am just pretty much burnt out on Oliver Stone's opinion on just about everything

[garya505 2]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

Isn't it about time for him to do a movie about Iraq? I think Sean Penn is available.

Edited September 6, 2007 by garya505

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

Isn't it about time for him to do a movie about Iraq? I think Sean Penn is available.

[almaty 19]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

Isn't it about time for him to do a movie about Iraq? I think Sean Penn is available.

relevant...

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. - Three high-ranking Marines were given censures, the military's most severe administrative punishment, for their roles in investigating the deaths of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha, the Marine Corps said.

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Maj. Gen. Richard A. Huck, former commanding general of the 2nd Marine Division, received a letter of censure from the secretary of the Navy for the "actions he took and failed to take" in response to the killings, according to a Marine Corps statement issued Wednesday.

The statement did not elaborate, but a senior Marine official said that no investigation was initiated immediately after the killings. The official noted the first probe didn't start until media reported on the killings, but also said "there was no evidence of an intentional coverup."

Huck, the top general in charge of Marines in Iraq's Al Anbar province at the time, testified in May that he knew about the deaths the day they occurred but considered them simply a "truly unfortunate" consequence of war. He said he only later learned of allegations that the civilians had been targeted.

Huck's chief of staff, Col. Robert G. Sokoloski, also received a censure, for unsatisfactory performance of his duties. Col. Stephen W. Davis was given a censure for failure to take action. Maj. Gen. Stephen T. Johnson, former commanding general of II Marine Expeditionary Force, was fully exonerated, the statement said.

"Accountability and responsibility are the foundation of all we do as Marines," said Gen. James T. Conway, commandant of the Marine Corps.

"While these three officers have served their country and corps exceedingly well for decades, their actions, inactions and decisions in the aftermath of the Haditha incident did not meet the high standards we expect of Marine senior officer leadership," Conway said.

Twenty-four civilians, including women and children, were killed by a Marine squad in Haditha on Nov. 19, 2005, after a roadside bomb killed a Marine. Four enlisted Marines were charged with murder, and four officers were charged with dereliction of duty for failing to investigate; charges against two of the enlisted men and one officer have since been dropped.

Wednesday's three disciplinary actions, all less severe than criminal charges, came as a preliminary hearing continued to determine if one of the enlisted men, Staff. Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 27, of Meriden, Conn., should face a court-martial on charges of unpremeditated murder.

Wuterich has acknowledged shooting five men near the scene of the bomb blast but claims he did so because they were running from the site of the explosion. Combat rules at the time allowed Marines to shoot at people fleeing the scene of an attack.

Capt. Alfonso Capers, to whom Wuterich reported for about two years before the killings, struggled for an answer in military court when Lt. Col. Paul Ware asked how Marines are trained to confront mixed crowds of enemies and civilians.

"Is there a schoolbook answer?" Ware asked.

"There's not," Capers replied.

Capers acknowledged some limits on tactics in such situations.

"Shoot first, ask questions later means everyone's expendable," Capers said. "You can't do that."

Prosecutors are focusing on how the five men died because they have a witness, Sgt. Sanick Dela Cruz, who claims the men were not running and had their hands in the air when he saw Wuterich shoot them. Dela Cruz was initially charged with murdering the men, but the charges were dismissed and he was given immunity to testify against Wuterich.

Wuterich's lead civilian attorney said Dela Cruz's account was false.

The preliminary hearing was set to conclude Thursday, Ware said. He will eventually make a recommendation on whether Wuterich should be court-martialed. Lt. Gen. James Mattis, the general overseeing the case, makes the final decision.

In Washington, the senior Marine official who briefed Pentagon reporters on the Wednesday's disciplinary actions against the three officers said that having the censure on their records would make it difficult for the three to receive future promotions and could result in a reduction in rank for the purpose of calculating retirement benefits.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity so he could speak freely about the personnel matter, declined to release the text of the letters.

There is no appeal to a letter of censure, but the three officers can write rebuttal statements that will be put into their records. The officers have five days to acknowledge the notification and then 15 days to submit any rebuttal statement.

Phone messages seeking comment from the three were not immediately returned

yeah, make one about that instead

[Jasman0717 9]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

Isn't it about time for him to do a movie about Iraq? I think Sean Penn is available.

I think he is still working on the grassy knoll theory so Iraq will have to line up behind all the other controversies

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

there's three careers that just came to an abrupt halt. next assignment will be retirement.

[Nagishkaw 510]

My ex, the old Indian man, used to guard Lt. William Callie when he was awaiting trial.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

i always thoguht there would be a movie made about the massacre..

Medina was from Montrose Colorado, about 20 miles from where I grew up

wow..a wonder if he is still there?

Do we really need another movie about Vietnam?

yes, the topic is relevant today as it was when it happen

Isn't it about time for him to do a movie about Iraq? I think Sean Penn is available.

Probably getting close. There are two movies coming out in the next few months: The Kingdom, a thriller about FBI agents in Saudi Arabia, and In the valley of Elah, where Tommy Lee Jones goes to Iraq to find his missing USMC son. Paul Haggis is doing that one - if nothing else he's actually a rather good screenwriter. Still - dealing with the political dimensions of an ongoing world event is dicey. That said, if anyone can pull it off - Haggis probably could.

[Jasman0717 9]

My ex, the old Indian man, used to guard Lt. William Callie when he was awaiting trial.

scapegoat.....was all Westmorland's fault

[Nagishkaw 510]

My ex, the old Indian man, used to guard Lt. William Callie when he was awaiting trial.

scapegoat.....was all Westmorland's fault

Westmorland is dead and gone. I did not feel bad when he passed away. There was an awful lot of blood on his hands that he will answer for.