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To: GST who wrote (109780)8/4/2003 8:04:55 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Apparently Ho Chi Minh is a personal hero of yours.

I think your statement would have been more accurate if you'd said Ho was willing to fight to the last man, woman, and child. North VN was not exactly a democracy.



To: GST who wrote (109780)8/4/2003 1:42:56 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
The US cannot afford to be seen as a conquering power with an army of occupation. It blows the cover off the whole operation.


But the US is a conquering power with an army of occupation. It just cannot afford to be seen as an army of permanent occupation.