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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (621)	9/8/2002 2:09:55 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

So where do you plan to begin your comprehensive history of our species - Tet? ... that was 1968, a great deal had happened before that point ... which was 22 years after Truman had started that leg of the wars over control of the vietnamese by handing them to the french with a wink and a nod ... here ya are, Chuck of Gaul, an entire people for your amusement, now try to work on your rudeness problem in the UN, and maybe a little harder than that even in those damn caff-ays around that tower of yours .... french lapped it up, really really wanted a colony, felt the possession of at least one to be de rigeur for the world-class nation they felt themselves to be, after a goodly portion of them had rolled over for the krauts ... never mind that others were twigging to the fact that colonies didn't work well anymore, if they had ever worked well, and were getting rid of them Did you know that ex-Waffen SS were in the FFL at Dien Bien Phu? ... more than a few ... just another little factoid you'd miss if you began all history in january of '68 .... you'd also miss around three millions casualties '46-'75 if you chose to count only 'post war' ones ..... [how can you have 'post war deaths'? ... wouldn't casualties suggest a rather warlike situation, epilogue to the main course if nothing else? ... but don't let me confuse you, it's your history] 'If the Amerikans had stood shoulder to shoulder' Ah, but some of them did, and they did it well, with great valour .... shoulder to shoulder down the street, cops to the right of them, rednecks to the left of them, they strode on to the goal, one step at a time .... hey hey LBJ how many kids did you kill today .... it was a serious question, only much later did we begin to get partial answers ... there are so many questions .... like, which is the greater crime - to burn a draft card with a match, or to burn human beings with napalm A few weeks ago i personally stood shoulder to shoulder with one of these amerikans, at a dance, a 'desertive' one ... he did two tours in Viet Nam as a marine, so you know he was no draftee, marines were all volunteer, clearly he was sucked right into the propaganda of it at the start ... well, eighteen years old or something, they are easy to twist then ... he was done with the second tour, back in San Diego, a few days to go until he was out, last day they were going to pin some medal on his chest ... but he was some distance away, on liberty, had better things to do, was no longer impressed at all with the power structure, decided to come north instead ... there was a young lady involved, she was here at the time and for some reason could not cross the border south ... more to the story too, anyway this was no potsmoking hippy, but a unique individual who had been there and done that and worked out his own truths about the whole thing ... he had a hard time getting the amnesty, being techically a deserter not a dodger, spent some time in gaol when he crossed south, after having been promised a simple signing of papers and a cordial handshake .... ended up, guess what, hanging out with the odd hippy ... and from time to time, at least one logger What if they had a war, and nobody came