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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (239895)	8/26/2007 7:57:48 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) of 281500

If America hadn't been involved, it would have been only Vietnamese killing millions of Vietnamese with the backing of the USSR - and we all know that you don't give a damn about those people! Nobody dies in your book unless America gets involved. Not really. The French deadenders who we supported in the south wouldn't have stood a ghost of a chance against the vast majority of Vietnamese who supported Ho. That was why the US decided the "cancel" the elections that had been acheduled to take place under the Geneva Accords of 1954 and pretend that the South was actually a "country"--everyone knew that Ho would win a countrywide with 3/4 of the vote. Yes, there probably would have been some deaths and imprisonments in any case, but without US support, it would have been over pretty quickly and nowhere near the amount of killing that took place over the ext 25-30 years. And if there had been a sane American administration, Ho wouldn't even have necessarily been a Soviet ally (and certainly would not have been a Chinese ally). He more plausibly would have been a neutral, trying to get support from both sides. And, if the US hadn't intervened, Cambodia and Laos wouuldn't have been savaged either.

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