Posted on 12/19/2007 6:59:14 AM PST by april15Bendovr
I heard recently on the Rush Limbaugh show this quote.
"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 was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!"
After I used this quote I have been informed that this memoir is listed as a Urban Legend.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_general_giap.htm
Can anyone help me prove that this "False status" in itself is an urban legend?
Same as it ever was, same as it ever was.
There is a reason that the 9-11 truthers are so adamant that the US government flew remote control planes into the WTC building and shot a missile into the Pentagon.
Most notably was the spy who wrote for Time Magazine while supporting the North Vietnamese.
Time has an Australian reporter embedded with the “insurgents” in the current war.
Same as it ever was.
The names may change, but they are still our enemy.
Michael Frazier
It wasnt Gen Giap, it was col Tin.
That's beyond disgusting. Of course, if the bastard gets shot/bombed ...
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Yep, you guessed it...
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IT'S ALL BOOOOOOSHE'S FAULT!!!!!!!!
Just spoke to an ex-pat regarding Gen. Giap whom he met after the war. Said the man respected our troops immensely and made "suggesting" comments he thought they'd( N 'nam) lost a couple times. This is not to say the quotation was correct but you know, our country did a horrible disservice to every vet in that war and the South Vietnamese. I graduated HS when Vietnam collapsed, and when I turned 18 about six months later I joined the Navy. All the hippies and negative commie nellies made me puke. Chose to go to college instead for a few years but I served....as for all those soldiers dead and wounded for life I salute you with all my heart.
You might be interested in reading “The Palace File” which has a great documentation on this time line from a S. Vietnamese insider.
Yep! Your Jan. 14, 1975 statement about the US not keeping its commitment is supported.
There was also a congressional committee to see what we should do in the last days. Rep. John Murtha was on it. Never have read what he actually did while there or what he said when he got back. Committee did recommend no further funding.
I got the timeline from here.It is the best I have seen.
Thanks for the info on the book. I'll check it out.
I didnt know if this guy on the bottom of the page at this link was the same guy?
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/honor/sfeature/sf_forum_participants.html
The photo at this link looks the same. I believe they’re the same person?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4491193.stm
ACTUALLY Rush actually states he is "almost always right 98% of the time, and he has pointed out that this is close to meaningless.
That sounds about right.
One of the more interesting quotes was at the end of the war between 2 military commanders, where the US military guy claimed to have won all of the battles and the vietnamese general said, “Yes, but that’s irrelevant.”
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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts
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Vietnam’s hero still grateful to anti-war Americans
http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/index.html?siteSect=143&sid=4905841
http://tinyurl.com/296ul9
By Christina Toh-Pantin
April 30, 2004
excerpts:
[HANOI (Reuters) - Twenty-nine years after the end of the Vietnam war, communist military mastermind General Vo Nguyen Giap remains grateful to the Americans who opposed it.]
[”I would like to thank them,” the 93-year-old veteran said on Friday of those Americans who opposed the war.]
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I don’t know of others were or not but I do know I transited SFO in 1967 and 1969 in uniform and was never spit on or accosted in any way.
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