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How U.S. allies nearly won Vietnam War
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| August 17, 2009
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Posted on 08/15/2009 7:34:58 PM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters
Bookmarking this one. Looking forward to reading the comments. Thanks for the post RobinMasters.
To: RobinMasters
This 'Nam vet will buy it! We were kickin' @$$ when I left, whatever Uncle Walter said!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:42:50 PM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: RobinMasters
My research tells me that we should have won the Vietnam War in 1968 when the USA kicked their butts around and chased them back to the north during the TET offensive.
Our military was so much better than theirs. It was equal to a game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the TCU horned frogs,
but politicians wouldn’t let our guys win the war,
am I right ?
To: LuvFreeRepublic
To: ConorMacNessa
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:48:16 PM PDT
by
doc1019
(Obama? Not so much.)
To: RobinMasters; Neil E. Wright; dcwusmc
Click the 'Bump' Graphic
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:48:48 PM PDT
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Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: RobinMasters
Great picture! It’s going on my Facebook page, if you don’t mind.
To: ConorMacNessa
A Vietnam vet friend, who recently passed away, had a bumper sticker on his truck that said, “We Were Winning When I Left.”
Joe’s finances were a mess when he died. He owed everybody money and his Polish girlfriend didn’t want him to be buried at Lincoln National Cemetery near Joliet, IL (she can’t drive). Thankfully, Catholic Charities came through with a burial plot. I was able to contribute about 20% and an American flag from OIF Marines. I thought that was a nice touch - new veterans saluting a past veteran.
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:52:54 PM PDT
by
12Gauge687
(Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice)
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
My dad was a Thud pilot July 67 - May 68 and I have done a lot of research on what these pilots were able to do and not do. If the government hadn't tied the Thud pilots hands behind their backs, we would have seen a different result in Vietnam. Those pilots could have completely cut off the troops and supplies moving south and with what you are saying about kicking butts and moving them north, it would have been a different story. God bless our Military, the greatest in the world, then, now and in the future.
To: se_ohio_young_conservative
You are correct! When the VC were wiped out during the Tet, North Vietnam had no choice but to use their own army. If we had continued supporting South Vietnam especially with air power, the South would be free today.
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:56:13 PM PDT
by
meatloaf
(Obama, Obozo ... what's the difference?)
To: 12Gauge687
Good job, 12gauge!
Lamh Foistenach Abu!
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:56:24 PM PDT
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ConorMacNessa
(HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines, RVN 1969. St. Michael the Archangel defend us in battle!)
To: 12Gauge687
Very nice on your part.
I think LBJ’s major interest was line his pockets with his fence company, his part ownersship in KBR that did all the construction and TX defense companies.
Nixon and Gen. Creighton Abrams almost turn the tide except the scum left with connections to the Viet Cong in Canada sabatoged the effort. That scum included Kerry, Teddy Kennedy, Jane Fonda, Cronkite and other vermin.
Vietnam was JFK/LBJ’s war but our guys were out to win and so was Nixon.
LBJ left office the second wealthiest President in history. H Washington was a billionaire adjusted for inflation. Nixon was broke when he left office. He never made nickel off the war.
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posted on
08/15/2009 7:59:21 PM PDT
by
Frantzie
(Lou Dobbs - American Hero! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
To: LuvFreeRepublic
Please feel free to do so. :-)
To: RobinMasters
"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 were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!"-often attributed to General Giap, North Vietnam
To: LuvFreeRepublic
dead on the money LVR. I saw a history channel(?) program not to long ago with quite a few interviews/discussions with some of those brave pilots that made it back and what they described regarding quite a few of their orders and what they were allowed, (and not allowed) to do was nothing short of complete insanity imho. It made me furious to listen to what those men went thru, talk about your hands being tied is right. sure there were concerns of the USSR and escalation fears involved but DAMN...........your father has my thanks for his service those many years ago.
To: RobinMasters
In the same vein, I'd recommend Lewis Sorley's
A Better War. It chronicles the war as conducted by the late Gen. Creighton Abrams, and documents its best-kept secret: we won. By 1973 we had utterly destroyed the Vietcong, and had neutralized the NVA's ability to conduct offensive warfare. On top of our battlefield success, Nixon's '72 Linebacker raids caused deep damage to the communist regime leaving Hanoi "on the ropes". Thus, the '73 accords.
The loss of Vietnam came only later, after we had essentially left the field and ceased to support the RVN logistically. Given that support, it's entirely possible that the RVN might still exist. If only Watergate hadn't happened...
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posted on
08/15/2009 8:19:59 PM PDT
by
B-Chan
(Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
To: smoothsailing
How many died because the media were helping them and the idiots in DC were preventing our military from getting the job done? UGH!
To: B-Chan
Always remember who was responsible that monumental betrayal of our soldiers and our allies, one of the worst in human history: the media-industrial complex and its political arm, the Democrat Party.
Never forget, never forgive.
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posted on
08/15/2009 8:25:54 PM PDT
by
atomic conspiracy
(Victory in Iraq: Worst defeat for activist media since Goebbels shot himself.)
To: bobby.223
Thanks for your kind words about my dad. Just before my dad got to Vietnam, they calculated that a Thud pilot had zero chance of completing his 100 missions and going home. The odds got better and my dad beat the odds. Unbelievable what they were up against. And they knew about the fears of escalation with USSR and China before they committed our military. Absolute BS and we need to make sure it never happens again.
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