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To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (38713)	8/19/2002 8:42:20 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Its amazing to me that despite millions of deaths following the fall of Vietnam, people still think it was a useless war.....

To: Nikole Wollerstein who wrote (38713)	8/19/2002 9:25:39 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

I believe there were nine or ten extra years of fighting. My neighbor still has shrapnel from his tour of duty with the Navy in VietNam in '64. We didn't officially withdraw until about 73 or 74. We illegally invaded Cambodia in 1970 to hunt down North Vietnamese who were launching attacks from there. Soldiers were told they were NOT in Cambodia. After our withdrawal, the US continued to support the war though our troops were gone. Between one and two million Cambodians were massacred between 73 and 75. Cambodia had wanted to remain neutral. AS I understand you think that USSR would have fallen sooner had we not fought in Viet Nam. I don't know if that's true, but they did have a presence in Viet Nam. I agree that we should not have gone into Viet Nam. It did no good, but it's been done. Hopefully sanity and reason will prevail and Bush will be deterred from striking Iraq. It will only serve to provoke more terrorist attacks.