[Rummyfan]

The Dems and the lefists executed the abandonment of Vietnam. They will not be allowed to do the same to Iraq.

[ClaireSolt]

I hope you are right about that. The truth about Vietnem is slow coming out, but the lies have paralyzed many in my generation and some of them are reaching out to imposse the same template on Iraq war vets. But it could go the other way. The truth could set many free and discredit and retire guy like Kennedy and Kerry.

[Zeppelin]

from Wikipedia South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Vãn Thiệu appealed to Nixon for continued financial aid. Nixon was sympathetic but the U.S. Congress was not, and the move was blocked. At its peak, U.S. aid to South Vietnam had reached $30 billion a year. By 1974 it had fallen to $1 billion. Starved of funds, Thiệu's government had difficulty even paying the wages of its army and desertions became a problem. On the other side, PAVN received billions of dollars in new equipment from the Soviet Union.