[Bigun]

“What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media w as definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!”

General Vo Nguyen Giap in his memoirs

[mad_as_he$$]

Reading Giap’s book made me sick. We had them beat after Tet and we folded up and went home. Cost South Vietnam I do not know haw many lives.

[Katarina]

Thank you for that quote.

McNamara will NOT be mourned in our home, nor any of my fmailies.

[Right Wing Assault]

The Giap quote appears to ba an urban legend.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941710/posts?q=1&;page=51

While various Vietnamese may have said things things similar to parts of this quote, so far, no one has been able to find this quote in anything General Giap or Colonel Bui Tin (or anyone else) have said or written.