Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: rich4eagle who wrote (167885)	8/6/2001 1:25:52 AM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

TILT! Haven't you been saying Communists are rightists? Now they're leftist? When did they switch? How'd they do it? those in power get absolute power and absolute power corrupts absolutely, thus creating a very hard right agenda usually N. Vietnam was not a dictatorship? STOP THE PRESSES! Richie has news! Look, even Hanoi's SUPPORTERS did not deny it was a dictatorship like every other Communist regime on the planet. You really need to work on your crap, richie. This stuff is ludicrous. You need more gymnastics practice, boy. You think N. Vietnam was democratic? Did you notice what happened to all those Communist dictatorships in eastern Europe when the people finally really did get a say?

To: rich4eagle who wrote (167885)	8/6/2001 2:31:29 AM
From: Nikole Wollerstein	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

An unjust cause … We had a Vietnamese Ph.D. student in the lab 2 years ago His parents escaped from Communists on the small boat He was 3 years old at this time. They have been lost in the fog and have been rescued by Philippine fishermen several days after they ran out of food and water. His relatives perished in the labor camps. An unjust cause….. When on the party some American mention that they to their parents have been demonstrating against the war in Vietnam, I like too tell them that they are responsible to the mass killings in the Vietnamese labor camps. I am such a party pooper.

To: rich4eagle who wrote (167885)	8/6/2001 12:38:54 PM
From: Les H	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

The U.S. erred in handing over Vietnam to the colonialist French after WW II. We could've helped develop Vietnam as an independent nation, but in retrospect, the U.S. had its hands full and appeared to have dropped the ball. The U.S. didn't invade Vietnam. After the French were kicked out, Vietnam was in a civil war in which external forces from U.S.S.R., China, and the U.S. were assisting the two sides. I remember seeing a program where the rebels asked the U.S. for assistance.