“Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam”
By Moyers & Company, a weekly public television series. Aired February 2013.
Journalist Nick Turse describes his unprecedented efforts to compile a complete and compelling account of the Vietnam War’s horror as experienced by all sides, including innocent civilians who were sucked into its violent vortex.
Turse, who devoted 12 years to tracking down the true story of Vietnam, unlocked secret troves of documents, interviewed officials and veterans — including many accused of war atrocities — and traveled throughout the Vietnamese countryside talking with eyewitnesses to create his book, Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam.
“American culture has never fully come to grips with Vietnam,” Turse tells Bill, referring to “hidden and forbidden histories that just haven’t been fully engaged.”
Nick Turse’s exceptional book is a service to the public, but he was blocked from seeing hidden US consul reports from Viet Nam 1889–1954. They are buried in the US National Archives. Thousands of these reports show US colonial corporate operations, enabled by French murder. And, a 1943 State Dept report calls for a post-World War II attack to seize Viet Nam to re-establish “Colonial Relationships.”
Thus the real reason for the 1960s war was to seize Viet Nam to resume the corporate thefts enabled by violence. The US public and soldiers never know.
From decades of research in the US & Viet Nam, this real story is available at briandroesch.com. On Amazon, it is Roesch, B. (2021). Corporate Tsunami in Countryside Paradise: 1875–1900 Origin of US War in Viet Nam, First Edition Revised. Voter Knowledge Press.