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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (1506)	11/21/2003 11:40:39 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

I wasn't just talking about American troops. If you got that impression I understand where you're coming from. The war in Vietnam ended in 1975. The American part of the war largely ended in 1973. Thanks to the peace movement and US public opinion primarily. And the most meaningful members of the peace movement were the vets themselves, and especially their leader John Kerry, whom even Nixon was worried about per his Watergate tapes. Got to give the man credit for saving thousands of lives. If the war had gone on longer, many thousands more would have died. Not just American deaths, but human deaths, children, women, innocents as well as combatants. That war should have ended years before, but at least public presure brought it an end when it did. The wounds of that war we still feel today. And we ask ourselves, what was it for? Unfortunately, we have few answers.