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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas M. who wrote (24472)	5/28/2003 6:01:15 AM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

Created by the CIA in Saigon in 1967, Phoenix was a program aimed at "neutralizing"—through assassination, kidnapping, and systematic torture—the civilian infrastructure that supported the Viet Cong insurgency in South Vietnam . . . >>> Thomas.. The Soviets and North Vietnamese created, armed, supplied, and directed the Viet Cong... Was that not imperialism on THEIR PART?? Phoenix was the controversial program aimed at destroying the Viet Cong's political infrastructure. But after the 1968 Tet offensive, the Viet Cong practically ceased to exist as an effective fighting force and it then became a direct struggle between North and South.. Hawk