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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: tonto who wrote (71903)7/10/2006 8:11:41 PM
From: Cautious_Optimist  Read Replies (1) of 173976
 
Tonto,
I try to be open minded in a non partisan manner to heated historical references whether from the right, left or subterranean . I've personally visited the war museums in Saigon/HCMC and Hanoi, and did not hear or see anything like this. Right or wrong depending on your views, the war was seen by the eventual victors as (another) one of defense against a series of outside invaders including the Chinese, the Japanese, the French, the US, and even the Khmer Rouge after we came home. Just as Robert McNamara pretty much concluded in "The Fog of War". I'm convinced that your reference is an urban legend that exists only in the minds of NewsMax and ratings driven incendiary talk shows that don't fact check when the lie or mega spin helps their case.

(1) vvaw.org

(2) washingtondispatch.com

"A few weeks ago in a column about Kerry, I referred to what has turned out to be an "urban legend." Specifically, based on a "news" item that appeared on NewsMax.com, I repeated a reference to a volume of memoirs supposedly published by North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap in 1985 as the source of an assertion by Colonel Oliver North. After a reader requested a reference to Giap's 1985 "Memoirs," I did research that convinced me no such volume exists. For that matter, I haven't been able to verify through Fox News that Colonel North actually made the comments he is said to have made and which I repeated. My apologies to Colonel North and to WashingtonDispatch.com readers for including inadequately verified material in my piece on Kerry."
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