http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/northvietnam/ en-us Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:06:07 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098200/posts Sarah Palin has accused presidential candidate Barack Obama of "palling around" with terrorists - referring to his acquaintance with a former member of the Weather Underground. So who were the Weather Underground? Embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, with many of the grievances of the civil-rights movement still unanswered, the US government was facing widespread protests in the late 1960s. Often those who rebelled were rich in idealism but unable or unwilling to take concrete action. On 8 October 1969, all that changed. A newly-formed group of left-wing extremists, dubbed the Weathermen, went on the rampage in a well-planned... BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098200/posts#comment Sun, 5 Oct 2008 22:06:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts Brainchild of the KGB As Ion Mihai Pacepa, onetime director of the Romanian espionage service (DIE), later explained, the PLO was conceived at a time when the KGB was creating “liberation front” organizations throughout the Third world. Others included the National Liberation Army of Bolivia, created in 1964 with help from Ernesto “Che” Guevara, and the National Liberation Army of Colombia, created in 1965 with help from Fidel Castro. But the PLO was the KGB’s most enduring achievement. In 1964, the first PLO Council, consisting of 422 Palestinian representatives handpicked by the KGB, approved the Soviet blueprint for a Palestinian... FrontPageMag http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1944599/posts#comment Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:32:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868539/posts Bush is no rocket scientist by any stretch, but if there was ever a doubt why Kerry didn't get elected it is moments like this. Wow. BreitBart TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1868539/posts#comment Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851090/posts Vietnamese leader Nong Duc Manh was on his way home last Monday after a three-day visit to Cuba that featured a meeting with ailing President Fidel Castro and a joint oil-exploration agreement. Cuba was the final stop of his nine-day visit to Latin America, which also included Chile, Brazil and Venezuela. Beside visiting with Cuba’s interim president, Raul Castro, who took over after his brother had gastrointestinal surgery in late July of last year, Manh also met with Vice-President Ricardo Lage. But it was an unannounced two-hour meeting early Sunday with Fidel Castro, 80, at the hospital where he is... Monday Morning, Lebanon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851090/posts#comment Sat, 16 Jun 2007 00:34:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676066/posts Globalization: Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is having a grand time cavorting around the world on his Axis Of Evil tour. But we notice he's disgusting as many countries as he's wooing. Vietnam is the most interesting. Chavez blew into Hanoi on Monday and right away began praising Vietnam's government in exactly the way it didn't want: by hailing communism. "Vietnam, with its valor, defeated imperialism not only on the battlefield, but also has maintained socialism in the ideological arena," the South American dictator intoned. Uh-huh. To Vietnam's officials, who've been trying diligently to integrate their nation into the world economy, that's... Investor's Business Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1676066/posts#comment Wed, 2 Aug 2006 00:30:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544120/posts The Legacy of Tet By J.R.DunnDecember 20th, 2005 It was with Tet '68 that the American media first knew sin. Anyone seeking to understand the character of consistently negative media coverage of the Global War on Terror must understand Tet. The Tet offensive of February 1968 is widely regarded as one of the turning points of the Vietnam War – though not for the customary military reasons. Tet had its origins in the plans of North Vietnamese commander Vo Nguyen Giap, a competent general given to flights of overconfidence. Giap decided to throw all available assets, both PAVN (People's Army... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1544120/posts#comment Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:48:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts Last week, John Walker Lindh  petitioned the president to commute his 20-year sentence for fighting with the Taliban, imposed in 2002.  It’s a shame that this pampered child of Marin County is sitting in a cell for something as trivial as treason. Under a plea bargain, Walker Lindh (AKA: Abdul Hamid, AKA: Sulayman Al-Lindh) pleaded guilty to supplying services to the Taliban regime and carrying explosives for  Afghanistan’s former rulers.Which is like to saying that Benedict Arnold supplied services to George III. Johnny Jihad trained in an al-Qaeda camp – where he learned to fire an AK-47 and rubbed elbows... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1234582/posts#comment Mon, 4 Oct 2004 08:55:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1447317/posts Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. .................................................................. .................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should... Vietnam Magazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1447317/posts#comment Thu, 21 Jul 2005 04:37:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts An American Traitor: Guilty As Charged By Henry Mark Holzer and Erika HolzerFrontPageMagazine.com | June 10, 2005For three decades Jane Fonda obfuscated, distorted and lied about virtually everything connected with her wartime trip to North Vietnam: her motive, her acts, her intent, and her contribution to the Communists’ war effort.  With the aid of clever handlers, she so successfully suppressed and spun her conduct in Hanoi that many Americans didn’t know what she had done there, and, more important, the legal significance. Three years ago, our book, “Aid and Comfort”: Jane Fonda in North Vietnam (McFarland & Co.), laid bare... Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1420218/posts#comment Fri, 10 Jun 2005 12:48:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376849/posts MIDI - THE TWELFTH OF NEVER You're asking for forgiveness for things you've done But there's no way that you will be fooling anyone Your pictures with the commies are for all time There will be no forgiveness...Jane Fonda, you are slime Rot in hell...Fonda, rot in hell We don't believe phony words you try to sell We know that as an actress you cry on cue To get us to believe you, there's nothing you can do Your pictures with the commies are for all time There will be no forgiveness...Jane Fonda, you are slime There can be... DFU SONGS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1376849/posts#comment Mon, 4 Apr 2005 04:31:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331696/posts <p>What did the North Vietnamese leadership think of the American antiwar movement? What was the purpose of the Tet Offensive? How could the U.S. have been more successful in fighting the Vietnam War? Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese army, answers these questions in the following excerpts from an interview conducted by Stephen Young, a Minnesota attorney and human-rights activist. Bui Tin, who served on the general staff of North Vietnam's army, received the unconditional surrender of South Vietnam on April 30, 1975. He later became editor of the People's Daily, the official newspaper of Vietnam. He now lives in Paris, where he immigrated after becoming disillusioned with the fruits of Vietnamese communism.</p> The Franklin County Veterans Memorial Educational Site of Ottawa, Kansas http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1331696/posts#comment Sun, 30 Jan 2005 05:32:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266191/posts In singular moments in our history, the security of the United States hinged on a single presidential election.... Today's vote determines how the United States finishes the present war against terrorists, and, indeed, whether we continue to defeat Islamic fascism.... John Kerry sees our struggle as an unending law enforcement problem, akin to gambling and prostitution. Thus the terrorist attacks of the 1990s were not deadly precursors to 9/11, but belong to a now nostalgic era of "nuisance." In contrast, George W. Bush envisioned September 11 as real war.... Most of Sen. Kerry's allegations about this war ring false or... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1266191/posts#comment Tue, 2 Nov 2004 13:22:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263706/posts Can any one tell me more information on North Vietnam Hall of Hero with a picture of John Kerry? The information below was post at http://usspower.com/dicussion/_disc1/00000087.htm  and I was looking for more information about Kerry and the North Vietnam Hall of Hero. Thanks ed The Kerry Photograph has been removed from the museum for reasons of "Political abuse and misinformation" by the museum staff. It seems that the placard that was below Kerry before this election year showed him as a war criminal there, and was subsequentialy changed to show him as a war hero after he won the democratic... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1263706/posts#comment Sun, 31 Oct 2004 16:12:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262577/posts Guided by hidden hands? By Linda Chavez The media are too busy repackaging old Iraq news in an October offensive against President Bush's re-election to investigate truly startling evidence unearthed this week that the Communist Party may have been directing John Kerry's anti-war activities in the early 1970s. The evidence, contained in captured communist records on file at the Vietnam Center at Texas Tech University, shows a well-coordinated effort by the Communist Party to recruit U.S. servicemen to become part of the American anti-war movement. The objective was to organize high-profile activities to undermine support for the Vietnam War, including... Washintgon Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1262577/posts#comment Sat, 30 Oct 2004 13:57:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257282/posts John Kerry and the VVAW: Hanoi's American Puppets? Newly discovered documents link Vietnam Veterans Against the War to Vietnamese communists Two recently discovered documents captured from the Vietnamese communists during the Vietnam War strongly support the contention that a close link existed between the Hanoi regime and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) while John Kerry served as the group's leading national spokesman. The Circular: International Coordination of Antiwar Propaganda The first document is a 1971 "Circular" distributed by the Vietnamese communists within Vietnam. It discusses strategies to coordinate their national propaganda effort with their orchestration of the activities... WinterSoldier.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1257282/posts#comment Tue, 26 Oct 2004 13:44:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256997/posts The first documentary evidence that Vietnamese communists were directly steering John Kerry's antiwar group Vietnam Veterans Against the War has been discovered in a U.S. archive, according to a researcher who spoke with WorldNetDaily. One freshly unearthed document, captured by the U.S. from Vietnamese communists in 1971, indicates the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese delegations to the Paris peace talks that year were used as the communications link to direct the activities of Kerry and other antiwar activists who attended. Kerry insists he attended the talks only because he happened to be in France on his honeymoon and maintains he... Worldnetdaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1256997/posts#comment Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:11:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209300/posts "Hanoi Hanna" was screeching away on the awful squawk box in my four-walled POW stench. She was directing her babble to servicemen who were still engaged in the conflict. "GIs lay down your weapons and revolt. Do not be the last soldier to die for a cause that Americans think is unjust." This is a paraphrase but the theme was repeated often late in my internment in the 1970s. I could not recollect it at the time but I found out after my repatriation that these same words were the hallmark of John Kerry's 1971 testimony before the Fulbright Committee:... Naples Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1209300/posts#comment Tue, 7 Sep 2004 17:10:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201386/posts Vietnam Veterans Against the War, the organization Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry helped lead in the early '70s after returning from his four-month tour of duty, decided to take down the U.S. flag that hung above the door of its Washington office after it caused "bad feelings." The minutes of a July 1971 staff meeting at VVAW include the following item under the heading "Washington office." WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1201386/posts#comment Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:09:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199616/posts A website for the documentary "Stolen Honor" “Stolen Honor” investigates how John Kerry’s actions during the Vietnam era impacted the treatment of American soldiers and POWs. Using John Kerry’s own words, the documentary juxtaposes John Kerry’s actions with the words of veterans who were still in Vietnam when John Kerry was leading the anti-war movement. Currently in the final stages of production, Stolen Honor will be available for broadcast and on DVD and VHS video. In addition, you will be able to view excerpts from the program on this web site. “In other wars, captured Americans subjected to the hell... Stolen Honor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1199616/posts#comment Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:09:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197451/posts THIS IS A REPOST FROM WINTERSOLDIER - GO TO ARTICLE FOR PICTURES. In the Vietnamese Communist War Remnants Museum (formerly known as the "War Crimes Museum") in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), a photograph of John Kerry hangs in a room dedicated to the anti-war activists who helped the Vietnamese Communists win the Vietnam War. The photograph shows Senator Kerry being greeted by the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, Comrade Do Muoi. Jeffrey M. Epstein of Vietnam Vets for the Truth acquired the photograph over the Memorial Day weekend as America was commemorating its military heroes. Epstein's... wintersoldier.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1197451/posts#comment Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:25:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1197107/posts In this 1990 8-page interview with Stanley Karnow, author of "Vietnam: A History", Communist North Vietnamese General Von Nguyen Giap cites the faltering will of the American government and the rise of the anti-war movement at a critical time as crucial factors in the eventual ascent of the Communist forces in Vietnam. ************************************************************************************ ..."We were not strong enough to drive out a half million troops, but that was not our aim"... "Our intention was to break the will of the American Government to continue the war. We were waging a "peoples war" - a la maniere vietnamienne". ....By late 1967,... New York Times Archives [NO LINK] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1197107/posts#comment Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:34:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196940/posts Can anyone prove or refute this? "Gen. Giap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S. The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him achieve victory. In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North. [¶] That's why, he predicted on Tuesday, the... http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/10/222651.shtml http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196940/posts#comment Sun, 22 Aug 2004 18:52:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196954/posts Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2004 10:25 p.m. EST Gen. Giap: Kerry's Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S.The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him achieve victory. In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it weren't for organizations like Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North.That's why, he predicted on Tuesday, the Vietnam War... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1196954/posts#comment Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:14:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177438/posts Even the stomach of the liberal-left Village Voice has turned at John Kerry's role as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs in covering up the substantial body of evidence that captured American servicemen were held back by the North Vietnamese to assure U.S. performance on peace agreements. On Sept. 21, 1992, former CIA director and secretary of defense James Schlesinger told the Kerry committee flatly that Americans were left behind in Vietnam. The precise numbers were a matter of record. Sworn affidavits say that Kerry gave orders on or before April 9, 1992, to shred intelligence... Insight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177438/posts#comment Sat, 24 Jul 2004 01:09:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139025/posts (CNSNews.com) - The 1970 meeting that current Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry conducted with North Vietnamese communists may have violated several U.S. laws, according to an author and researcher who has studied the issue. Kerry met with representatives from "both delegations" of the Vietnamese peace process in Paris in 1970, according to Kerry's own testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on April 22, 1971. But Kerry's meetings with the Vietnamese delegations were in direct violation of laws which forbade private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers, according to researcher and author Jerry Corsi, who began studying the anti-war movement... CNSNEWS.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1139025/posts#comment Thu, 20 May 2004 10:14:05 GMT