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To: Sam who wrote (119906)	11/18/2003 6:17:42 PM
From: Hawkmoon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

North Vietnam was never a "country". The Geneva Accords of 1954 defined the political situation in Southeast Asia following the pullout of the French. The text is reproduced below. You will not find reference to a "country" named "North Vietnam" or to one named "South Vietnam" either. This was a fiction created by the Dulles brothers in the US. Hmm.. just like the Palestinians are a fictitious "nationality", right? Is South Korea a country? They were partitioned just like North and South Vietnam were.. East and West Germany? Who's to say who a country is, or isn't? Do you have that right? Or should it be decided along the lines of which government was most accountable to the will of its people? S. Vietnam was certainly not a sparkling example of a democracy, but at least they held general elections. Do a websearch for N. Vietnam and Elections and see what you come up with... Nada.. Your version of history is a myth, dangerous mainly because it is common here in the US and is one of the things that makes us so damned self-righteous on the one hand and makes some of our citizens willing to allow our political leaders to use our remarkable military might far too often. That is what scares the rest of the world, not to mention quite a few US citizens as well. A myth? Are you even daring to assert that a merging of the two nations would have resulted in a democratically elected government in Vietnam? Look at the "democracy" that N. Vietnam inflicted upon the south (and its own people). Look at the aggression N. Vietnam pursued not only against the South, but Laos and Cambodia. There's a damn good reason that some 800,000 people fled from the north to the south. And a damn good reason there were NEVER open and fair elections, nor any intent to hold any, in N. Vietnam since it was established. They STILL HAVEN'T had a free and fair election. Nor is the current government representative of the will of the people, or elected by ANY kind of ballot (except that of the party elite). But hey.. I'll give you an B- for effort for trying to get us to believe your propaganda. It's the same kind of BS that people tried to feed us about the "intent" of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. They hi-jacked a middle class revolution and would up turning most of those folks into refugees. Hawk