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Even though, as we lost about 60,000 men and killed 2,500,000 of theirs, the left communist in the press and in our government have convinced some of us that we lost.

Where did this guy come up with that number? He must have been one of those guys that gave body count numbers to the press each week and we know how inflated they were. A more accurate count of North Vietnamese regular troops and Viet Cong killed during the war is about 600,000.

LBJ did a lot more lying to us then the press ever did during the war.

Vietnam was before my time but I've read up quite a bit on the MIA issue. It is one of the strangest stories I've ever heard. There is incontrovertible evidence that indeed some 600-700 living POWs were not repatriated at Operation Homecoming (a number of at least 367 is irrefutable). It is amazing, and strange, that the general public seems to know little if anything about this evidence. After mulling over it for years, and reading and researching it for just as long, I've concluded that the U.S. government indeed sold them out for "national security" reasons. The evidence for that is also VERY strong.

The U.S. politicos were afraid that if ANY credence were given to non-repatriated living POWs the families of these POWs, and lobbyist groups for them, would have undue influence on U.S. foreign policy and that this was unacceptable. This basic tenet, I now know for a fact, was held to as late as the Clinton Administration. POWs from the Korean conflict and WWII (in staggering numbers) were also not repatriated as Communist nations claimed.

Failure to repatriate a soldier after a conflict is one of the most inhumane and insidious crimes a government can commit. It is unbelievable, but that is Communist thinking for you. Genuine spies are another story, but N. Vietnam tried to claim that the U.S. servicemembers were spies (especially if captured outside of S. Vietnam) or "petty criminals", which was ludicrous. I'm just wondering if we'll ever get a Pres with the 'you know what' to step up to the plate, forget about 'economic trade' and "normalization of relations", and get these guys accounted for.