[Ridgeway]

Nope. The thing that brought an end to our just cause in Vietnam to protect South-East Asia formdemocidal communists was topped by misreporting by the emdia for political reasons and Nixon and Kissinger's own "de'ente" crap.

The fact is we started and continually did pull out troops in 69'. We started the Vietnamazation process in 69' too to replace us when we finally left. We left entirely in 73'.

The Cambodia invaison was long overdue. The Commies ahd prepared something called Tet 68', Tet 69', Tet 70'. 3 major offensives launched each year. In 1970 we invaded Cambodia,most of the troops were ARVN. We ran 20km into Cambodia then ran out,all because of leftist political pressure coming from the campus, media, and Democratic party. We cleared out 20km of their sancuarary, that Sihanouak made possible and that Lon Nol tried to stop.

Even during the offensive we were pulling out! Just that the ARVN was strating more and more to runt he show. In 73' in fact we had no divisional forces in Vietnam only 20,000 advisors and around 1,000+ air-craft.

The Kent State massacre was an isolated incident involving trigger happy National Guardsmen. But if we stayed and cleared out allthe Communist forces, 2-3 million could have been saved form Pol Pot's murderous tyranny, which we tried to stopby bombing only because the political pressure was so immense we were not allowed to invade Cambodia again.

Don't bring up the Hayden 68' DNC riot. Hayden and his gang of SDS terrorists incited that damn thing. The police ahd eveyr rightto bash their heads in.

"I want the Black Panthers to become America's Viet Cong..."-Hayden

[Houmatt]

While we could debate what brought an end to our involvement into the Vietnam War, I am sure you would agree that while the cause may have been just, our own government who sent our boys out there did not want them to win, and so they had their a$$es handed to them.