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CALIFORNIA’S VIETNAM WAR
Frontpagemag ^ | 09/22/2017 | Lloyd Billingsley

Posted on 09/22/2017 4:42:51 AM PDT by DFG

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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Good points All,
I might add that some refugees kept
Their communist beliefs as they
joined the boat people coming to
America.


21 posted on 09/22/2017 7:14:44 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Like the Cuban refugees are mostly republican and CA. Tell you the horrors of communism. Unfortunately their children went to our public schools and that generation is turning democrat.


22 posted on 09/22/2017 7:16:03 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Like the Cuban refugees are mostly republican and CA. Tell you the horrors of communism. Unfortunately their children went to our public schools and that generation is turning democrat.


23 posted on 09/22/2017 7:17:25 AM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: DFG

“Future episodes will deal with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973, which paved the way for the victory of the Soviet-backed North Vietnamese Communists in 1975.”

WRONG!

It was the Dems refusing to fulfill our promise to continue to arm the South.


24 posted on 09/22/2017 7:30:59 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: BradtotheBone

When he asked the best way to accommodate the influx he was told “full English immersion”, by the very advisors who refused to do the same for Hispanics.


25 posted on 09/22/2017 7:34:06 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: All

Althought the US media (particularly Walter Crankcase) portrayed it as a defeat for the US, the ‘68 Tet offensive was a major disaster for the NVA. Soviet Premier Nikita Kruschev convened a Politburo meeting for the unstated purpose of finding a patsy to blame for the failure. During this meeting, KGB Director (and future Premier) Yuri Andropov stood up and told the assembly (words to the effect that) “We don’t have to win the war in Vietnam because we’re winning the war on the American college campus.”

RE: The Burns documentary (with Peter Coyote as narrator, no less), I watched the first episode, fully expecting to switch it off after 10 minutes in disgust with all the Anti-American and anti-conservative propaganda. To my shock and surprise, he pretty much drove the ball straight down the middle of the fairway. So I kept watching. Thus far I’ve seen the first three episodes and the people who’ve received the roughest treatment all were Democrats. He’s pretty much roasts JFK and LBJ on a spit for their roles. And of the five presidents featured in those first three episodes, even Harry Truman got harsher treatment than Eisenhower. Ike, in fact, comes out looking pretty good for noting in his personal journals “...[T]hat no military victory is possible in this theater,” and refusing to act unilaterally (after the Brits refused to contribute) to aid the French when they took a shellacking at Dien Ben Phu in ‘54.


26 posted on 09/22/2017 7:58:37 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: Paal Gulli

“Althought the US media (particularly Walter Crankcase) portrayed it as a defeat for the US, the ‘68 Tet offensive was a major disaster for the NVA.”

Any serious scholar of the TET offensive would come to the exact same conclusion.


27 posted on 09/22/2017 8:17:17 AM PDT by Rik0Shay
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To: onedoug

ping


28 posted on 09/22/2017 9:55:17 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: DFG; windcliff

Political cynicism.

Brown knew that those who’d fled communism would be more conservative in their politics once allowed to thrive in relative freedom.

After all, he’d had lots of indoctrination being a commie himself.


29 posted on 09/22/2017 10:07:46 AM PDT by onedoug
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