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To: Thomas M. who wrote (685)	9/28/2002 12:10:55 PM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 1293

<<< Army planners had estimated in 1950 that 80 percent of Vietnamese supported Ho Chi Minh, and of those, 80 percent were not Communists, an assessment that did not change. US government studies of VC defectors and prisoners 15 years later found that "few of them considered themselves Communists or could give a definition of Communism," >>> General David Shoup, Marine Commandant through the Kennedy years and known as Kennedy's "favorite service chief": "I believe that if we had and would keep our dirty, bloody, dollar-crooked fingers out of the business of these nations so full of depressed, exploited people, they will arrive at a solution of their own. That they design and want. That they fight and work for. [Not one] crammed down their throats by Americans." zmag.org