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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry

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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (65058)	8/7/2005 8:39:22 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) of 81568

We need to learn from the lesson of Vietnam. The reason that godawful waste of a war lasted so long was because the administrations of LBJ and Nixon kept saying "stay the source" and "victory is around the next corner", then "we can't cut and run", then "as soon as the South Vietnamese can take over", they finally they just bombed the hell out of the place to cover our exit. It was a tragic end, but could not be avoided. We had 550,000 men over there and still couldn't pacify the place. We spent by what today's standards would be trillions of dollars. All because of a lie and a big mistake way back in the beginning. Lesson, you can't win a war where you're in the wrong, the locals hate you and you're in the middle of a civil war where you can't tell friend from foe. That's the lesson. Plus, Vietnam was never any real threat to us to begin with. So yeah I say get ready to cut our losses. I'll bet as soon as we're gone the terrorism comes to a stop.

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