Ask any liberal who still believes that abandoning the Vietnamese was the right thing to do.
These pictures, if real, reinforce my belief that this is what we fought for.
K, Viet Nam 1968-69
Those are definitely N. Vietnamese helmets and uniforms. When the photos were taken, who knows.
That sort of thing coupled with the way the war was being prosecuted by our side pretty much killed any political support for the war in the US. A real war between the US and North Vietnam should last a year, tops. Moreover, there is no rational way anybody can ask draftees to fight in such a thing or draft the boy next door and tell him it's somehow or other his patriotic duty to go into harms way for something which clearly amounts to a geopolitical game with no semblence of a declaration of war or a real commitment.
That was the problem. Ronald Reagan finally figured out that you play geopolitical games with petty cash and a few handsfull of professional soldiers and soldiers of fortune, and not with vast sums of treasure and tens of thousands of draftees and, for that reason, unlike the presidencies of LBJ or Nixon, Reagan's presidency will go into the books as a success story.
AMEN!
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NEVER FORGET
A Freeper Vet goes to the Vietnam Wall
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1019769/posts
NEVER FORGET
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I worked with a couple of the people that were in the re-education camps. One of them spent 11 years and the other spent 15 years. These guys wound not say sh*t if they had a mouthfull and had to be told what to do. They performed every task as if they were robots. Sad.
Ask any liberal who still believes that abandoning the Vietnamese was the right thing to do.
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...and now those who fooled us into leaving the people of a then Free South Vietnam behind to their fate at the hands of godless bullies...
...are at it again against the people of a Free Iraq:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1581689/posts
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Oh, the times they are a-changin'...
ROVE says troops will remain in Iraq, despite calls for withdrawal
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1595174/posts
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And finally...
Vietnam War...
9/11...
Lifesaving hero RICK RESCORLA...
...is joyfully honored at...
...Ft. Benning's unveiling...
...of his own 'Follow Me' Statue:
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1608896/posts
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NEVER FORGET
And now we know...
KISSINGER: U.S. 'Accepted' Communist Vietnam
http://www.Newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/26/210038.shtml
NEVER FORGET
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Vietnam After All? (The only similiarity between Iraq and Vietnam is the sound of the critics)
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1646760/posts
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July 2, 2006 =
30th sad anniversary of Communist Vietnam's eliminating the word SAIGON from SAIGON City's name. Because they could.
NUTS.
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This is what John Kerry fought for!
Enjoy the show Kerry....
Yeah. It's just sickening all the havoc created by the hysterical media, then and now...
I can't stand liberal use of the word "unification" when they double talk about communism. They talk about "unifying" South Korea and North Korea, or China and Taiwain.
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CLARITY =
Is the Vietnam War dead as an ‘issue’
http://www.ArmchairGeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89484
(See Miss Saigon postings)
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