[marvlus]

They were against an unwinnable war, which was obvious to us at the time.

[donozark]

All wars are winnable. The VC had been defeated in 1968. Never again to attack in formations larger than Battalion-and only two of those.The North, while already in the war, was forced to enter en masse. They too lost so many men they fled to their sanctuaries in Laos/Cambodia and only attacked on their terms-much as Al Queda is doing from the "neutral" area of Paskistan.

Most of these guys had as much chance of ending up grunts as Corporal Klinton did.

[muawiyah]

It was only obvious to Lyndon Johnson and Robert McNamara. They were the two most important people in the war, and they didn't happen to have the moral fortitude or the will to win the war. - Or to lose it -

They preferred to just let it run on and on and on and kill off my buddies.

When McNamara built his present mansion, he had bricks custom-made with a special sand finish. When the job was done the brick contractor had several hundred left over. He sold them to me for 2 cents per brick.

I keep them in a patio. Sometimes we have beer parties. Those brick are quit handy for relieving one's self, although I do restrict that activity to a small section. No sense making a mess, eh?!

[Bogey78O]

Politics made it unwinnable.

[jonascord]

Odd that it was not so obvious to those of us who were there, unlike the slimy, filthy, sub-human, cowardly #$%^&&^*&%*^%#$&^%*()(*&*^%%$^ who "knew" better...

[Pushi]

It wasn't obvious to me. The war could have been won if we had not had a bunch of neo-politically correct pussies running things. I served.

[old school]

Hey, I was there and I didn't believe that the war was unwinnable! Had we had support for U.S. Soldiers instead of support for the enemy, (here at home), things might have been different!

[Kobyashi1942]

They were against an unwinnable war, which was obvious to us at the time.

No, any man who dodged he draft was a coward, pure and simple. We lost the war because the Communist were counting on the the anti-war crowd convincing America to get out of the war.

Any man who dodged the draft should have his nose cut off and thrown into a bag with a wild animal, than thrown into the Patomac River.