Posted on 10/04/2013 7:01:23 AM PDT by Borges
Edited on 10/04/2013 7:05:01 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Vo Nguyen Giap, the brilliant and ruthless self-taught general who drove the French out of Vietnam to free it from colonial rule and later forced the Americans to abandon their grueling effort to save the country from communism, has died. At age 102, he was the last of Vietnam's old-guard revolutionaries.
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Red bastard.
Good.
Will Obama order flags to half staff?
The media will give this guy better treatment than Reagan got I bet
And today Vietnam is asking OUR help because they’re being bullied by their fellow Commies, China. Burn in hell, Giap.
Secretary of State Kerry (he served in Vietnam, you know) is on his way to Hanoi at this moment, carrying a large blanket of roses for the casket.
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Oh my God. ABC news is making Giap out to be George Washington. He killed Americans. He liked killing Americans. Unfortunately, he was good at it. And ABC News writes a glowing obituary? What’s next from ABC?
HITLER: HE COULD REALLY DANCE!!!!!
Hitler liked dogs and children as well.
Giap didn’t defeat the USA alone. He had help with the left here. people like Ted Kennedy, Jane Fonda and John Kerry have as much blood on their hands as Giap.
If the USA was united, the NVA would have never succeded.
A brilliant military tactician.
What a pity he did not choose to lead Vietnam to freedom, instead of slavery.
Think what you will of this ruthless commie, he was one tough em eff.
These military figures from dictatorial regimes really have an advantage don’t they? It’s much easier to succeed when you are willing to sacrifice so many lives of your own troops to do it. Giap and Stalin had this mindset.
“He regularly accepted heavy combat losses to achieve his goals.”
Josef Stalin
Georgi Zhukov
Ivan Konev
Nikolai Vatutin
Mao Zedong
Chou En Lai
Peng Dehuai
Pol Pot
In an atheistic political system, denial that men have souls means they are nothing but pieces of meat to be disposed of as the state sees fit. Never forget that it’s the cornerstone of every communist nation.
So typical of ABC-Socialist/Communist news.
RIH
He was able to sacrifice half a million North Vietnamese soldiers without being removed from command.
His victory was based on taking ten casualties for every single French or American casualty.
His greatest victory, at Dien Bien Phu, was based on doing something no Western general would have been allowed to do without being relieved of command and court-martialed.
He sent men out into an open field of fire to emplace artillery, and as they were cut down he sent in more and more until it was emplaced.
His strategy was to simply throw corpses at his enemies until they were smothered.
The good die young.
I wonder if John Kerry will attend his funeral, since he’s flying to Asia anyway now?
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