[jveritas]

For the last 3 years we have been hearing from the liberal media about this “Tet Offensive” by the terrorists to occur this month or that month or the month after.

[jwpjr]

This will be a bit different in that the funding for the war will need to be renewed in September, so the stage is really set for them to do their thing. Although I must admit I don’t know how they will be able to present a more negative view of the war than they have been for the last three years. I play a little game as I peruse the FR postings. As soon as I see a positive, or at least not overtly negative, story about the war in Iraq I look to see whose story it is, MSM or one of the news services that work directly with the military. You can bet your bippy if the story has anything but the most negative information that it is not a wire story from the MSM.

This is going to be a very frustrating period as our guys and gals struggle to do what they do so well and the MSM struggles to do what it does so well. We need to gird ourselves for the battle and it won’t be pretty.

Batten down the hatches, there’s rough seas ahead!

[ishabibble]

Tet Offensive and General Giap and Uncle Walter:

>>By 1968, NVA morale was at it’s lowest point ever. The plans for “Tet” ‘68 was their last desperate attempt to achieve a success, in an effort to boost the NVA morale. When it was over, General Giap and the NVA viewed the Tet ‘68 offensive as a failure, they were on their knees and had prepared to negotiate a surrender.

At that time, there were fewer than 10,000 U.S. casualties, the Vietnam War was about to end, as the NVA was prepared to accept their defeat. Then, they heard Walter Cronkite (former CBS News anchor and correspondent) on TV proclaiming the success of the Tet ‘68 offensive by the communist NVA. They were completely and totally amazed at hearing that the US Embassy had been overrun. In reality, The NVA had not gained access to the Embassy—there were some VC who had been killed on the grassy lawn, but they hadn’t gained access. Further reports indicated the riots and protesting on the streets of America.

According to Giap, these distorted reports were inspirational to the NVA. They changed their plans from a negotiated surrender and decided instead, they only needed to persevere for one more hour, day, week, month, eventually the protesters in American would help them to achieve a victory they knew they could not win on the battlefield. Remember, this decision was made at a time when the U.S. casualties were fewer than 10,000, at the end of 1967, beginning of 1968.<<

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Camp/7624/Generals/giap.htm