Gen. Giap Thanks Kerry & Co. for Anti-war Protests

NewsMax ^ | 5/1/04 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

Celebrating the 29th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, the North Vietnamese general who led his forces to victory said Friday he was grateful to leaders of the U.S. anti-war movement, one of whom was presidential candidate John Kerry.

"I would like to thank them," said Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, now 93, without mentioning Kerry by name. "Any forces that wish to impose their will on other nations will surely fail," he added.

Reuters, which first reported Giap's comments, suggested that the former enemy general was mindful of Kerry's role in leading some of the highest-profile anti-war protests of the entire Vietnam War.

Before the British wire service quoted Gen. Giap, it noted:

"The Vietnam War, known in Vietnam as the American War, has become a hot issue in the U.S. presidential race with Democrat John Kerry drawing attention to his service and President Bush's Republicans disparaging Kerry's later anti-war stand."

North Vietnamese Col. Bui Tin, who served under Gen. Giap on the general staff of the North Vietnamese army, received South Vietnam's unconditional surrender on April 30, 1975.

In an interview with the Wall Street Journal after his retirement, Col. Tin explicitly credited leaders of the U.S. anti-war movement, saying they were "essential to our strategy."

"Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar movement," Col. Tin told the Journal.

Visits to Hanoi by Kerry anti-war allies Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and others, he said, "gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."

"We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war," the North Vietnamese military man explained.

Kerry did much the same thing in widely covered speeches such as the one he delivered to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in April 1971.

"Through dissent and protest [America] lost the ability to mobilize a will to win," Col. Tin concluded.

[wagglebee]

Here's one of Kerry's foreign leader friends stepping forward with his support.

[Graybeard58]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1127894/posts

[samtheman]

Maybe some KGB folk can step up and thank him for being in favor of the nuclear freeze in the '80s.

And, of course, today he's got his UN oil-for-food pals to slap him on the back.

JFnK has a long history of overseas friendships.

We'll be safe with ol' JFnK at the helm.

[davisfh]

Thank you, thank you, thank you General Vo Nguyen Giap. You are an accidental patriot.

[laconic]

Why has Jane Fonda been allowed to keep her citizenship and to grow wealthy in this country? She should have been stripped of her citizenship and deported to a socialist paradise like Cuba.

[steplock]

We kept jimmy carter? and he's much worse than fonda ever thought of being.

[Noumenon]

There is so much blood on Kerry's hands alone that I cannot say here what justice demands.

The fact that this piece of filth - along with the likes of Tom Harkin and Jane Fonda - are still walking around alive and free says more than I care to think about how far down the road to the Fall of the Republic we've gone.

[facedown]

Fire for effect, or, time on target.

Your choice.

[SAMWolf]

Time on target for me. ;-)

[Intolerant in NJ]

Bump....

[Kudsman]

"Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9AM to follow the growth of the antiwar sedition movement," Col. Tin told the Journal.

[bushfamfan]

Didn't Tokyo Rose serve time in jail for her propaganda? Kerry is a scumbag traitor.

[Defender2]

kerry....post service....while improperly wearing his uniform(documented photographically proved)....accuses his fellow vets of war crimes....calls fear of communism false(basically sides with our enemies)....throws his awards away while in improper uniform....gets elected to Senate(must be a whole lot of enemy lovers up there)....votes against the U.S. military during a majority of his votes....questions President Bush's U.S. Air National Guard Service....while constantly shoving his in our faces while he fends off questions of his post service actions....Are we really supposed to trust this man(kerry) as a potential Commander in Chief????Are we supposed to trust the demoCommiecRAT party(which seems to like to side with our enemies) with U.S. National Defense????


I would not vote for kerry or any demoCommiecRAT for DOGCATCHER(with the exception of the Honorable Zell Miller)!!!!

[Publius6961]

Is there any longer a line between Treason and dissent?
How about between dissent and sedition?

Tolerance is one thing; national suicide something else entirely.

I fear that the answer to these questions will require direct, long-lasting and individual initiative. The civil war may begin quietly, but it will be quite explosive when it finally arrives. And let it be noted, that the anger and the mindlessness simmered among the ignorant, the "progressives", those passionate idiots who would make us all equal zombie slaves to the concept of "equality": all equally miserable.

[Defender2]

Very well said and very sad.

Wake up America, don't let the demoCommiecRATS lull you to sleep!!!!

[walford]

Let us not forget that America's enemies have gone to school on the Viet Nam War ever since. It is the essence of asymmetrical warfare between a free society and a dictatorship:

Use our freedom speech as a weapon against us, by exploiting a ready-made fifth column; the Left.

They have learned that if they kill enough of us, it will fan the flames of the 'peace' movement's influence, thus promising a political victory here that they couldn't possibly win on the battlefield.

The protesters cannot be allowed to escape from the fact that their actions lead directly to the loss of American lives.

http://utopia-unmasked.us/IraqNKorea.htm
"...Ho Chi Minh was encouraged by the increasingly numerous and grotesque displays of self-loathing on our streets. Having victory removed as an option from the start, the resultant war of attrition was to the enemy’s ultimate advantage..."