[FlyVet]

Supposedly, one of the reasons we held back in VN was because the Soviets threatened to launch if we went at the war too hard.

After Linebacker II Giap admitted he was ready to quit. Imagine if we had called the Soviets on their bluff (?) in the early 60's, and leveled Hanoi and Haiphong mercilessly. What if Reagan had been President at that time? Would he have called the Soviets out? I guess we'll never now.

[rlmorel]

"...Americans neither understood nor appreciated our actual battlefield successes in TET..."

No doubt due to this man: Walter Cronkite advocates an America that relinquishes its sovreignty to a world government

This guy is the God of liberals, especially those in the media. They think he walks on water. And they are trying to do the same thing to our troops today.

[Judges Gone Wild]

The U.S. won the Vietnam War on the ground but lost the propaganda war to the “useful idiots” in the media. The same thing is happening now in re Iraq.

[ken21]

that’s how the american left and the soviets dovetailed together.

but many american tv viewers were to dim witted to admit it.

[Eagles6]

Abandoning South Vietnam to slaughter and slavery was one of the darkpoints in our history. Funny thing is that the dems and the left want to relive it in Iraq.

[Intolerant in NJ]

...And the Vietnam War — though it would continue for a few more years — was for all intent and purposes, lost...wrong - as Michael Barone stated recently on C-Span, the book "A Better War" details how when General Abrams took over from Westmoreland and initiated the tactic of clearing and holding areas contested by the enemy (apparently similar to the tactic we are finally applying in Iraq), our progress in the war became dramatic to the point that the South probably could have held out against the North - until Democrat senators refused to provide the funding and equipment which had been promised - the war was thrown away, not lost, by the 'rats......

[1COUNTER-MORTER-68]

Giap lost his whole army,,,near 100,000 VC/NVA dead,,, that's what couldn't get away...the MSM "spin" took our 1500 KIA in the first week and called it defeat...And,,, Their trying to do it again SAT CONG...

[DakotaRed]

Americans neither understood nor appreciated our actual battlefield successes in TET

Could that be because all they were fed were how we lost it and were losers?

[Bender2]

Following Korea came Vietnam where liberal Democratic politics forced us to accept a defeat we never suffered on the battlefield. Now we have Iraq and a War on Terror where once again liberal Democrats are trying to force another defeat down the throat of America. They have the same cohorts with the Mainstream Media and elite East Cost newspapers and their allies now are not the Communists of North Vietnam and the Soviet Union, but instead the very Islamic terrorists that flatten the World Trade Center and beheaded our POWs.

-snip-

I was born before the Korean War and lived through the disgrace of Vietnam. The first Gulf War seemed to erase the defeat legacy our military suffered in Vietnam, but once more, the Whores & Hounds of Hell are nipping at our heels lead by the Clintons, Pelosi, Ried, Obama, Edwards, Kerry, Ted Kennedy and the other lice ridden vermin that call themselves Democrats.

more at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868189/posts

Deja vu all over again, eh?

[Viet Vet in Augusta GA]

I’ve got a lapel pin that shows a GI in front of a map of Vietnam and says “We Were Winning When I Left”. True. US military never lost a battle; war was not lost but abandoned in Washington DC. Sad to see same thing happening to our troops today.