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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (311515)	11/21/2006 2:32:08 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1576880

"The boys who fought and died in Vietnam were mostly drafted. The liberals' finest hour, i.e. the defeat of America." Just out of curiosity, what are you trying to say here? That if they were volunteers, we would have won? The people I know who served in Vietnam weren't screwoffs. If you were in a position to see combat, being a slacker meant you and/or your buddies were going to die. It didn't matter if you are a gung ho believer in the mission, or thought the whole idea was screwed. If you were there, you did your best. You still might wind up with a punji stick driven through your boot or gotten shot as you manned the door gun on a Huey, but if you slacked off, you certainly were going to die. I think it is pretty low to put down the men who fought and died in Vietnam. Yeah, they didn't win. But it wasn't their fault. We weren't winning in Vietnam. We weren't losing either. Much like Iraq, we were holed up in our firebases and were in danger for every moment we ventured out. It just isn't possible to win under those circumstances. Given that we are doing exactly the same in Iraq, we can't win there either. It just isn't possible.

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