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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: d.taggart who wrote (122377)	1/17/2001 10:22:47 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 769667

The kids that were killed and scarred spanned the spectrum of politics. Most just poor kids doing what they were told.

To: d.taggart who wrote (122377)	1/18/2001 1:16:51 AM
From: iandiareii	Respond to of 769667

In the fall of 1968, Richard Nixon and some of his emissaries set out to sabotage the Paris peace negotiations on Vietnam. The means they chose were simple: they privately assured the South Vietnamese military rulers that an incoming Republican regime would offer them a better deal than would a Democratic one. In this way, they undercut both the talks themselves and the election strategy of Vice President Hubert Humphrey. The tactic 'worked,' in that the South Vietnamese junta withdrew from the talks on the eve of the election, thereby destroying the peace initiative on which the Democrats had based their campaign. In another way, it did not 'work' because four years later the Nixon Administration tried to conclude the war on the same terms that had been on offer in Paris. The reason for the dead silence that still surrounds the question is that in those intervening years some 20,000 Americans and an uncalculated number of Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians lost their lives. From "The Case Against Henry Kissinger," by Christopher Hitchens, in the February 2001 issue of Harper's Magazine. As yet unavailable online, but check your news stand or this site: harpers.org The Clinton-hating Hitchens makes a well-documented case. Plenty of bullshit to go around for Vietnam -- too much bullshit, in fact, for "poor Dick Nixon" to be anything other than an obscenity.