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To: TimF who wrote (134269)	5/24/2004 10:13:32 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

True they said that but that didn't stop them from in fact creating two countries. You can write anything down on paper, but reality often doesn't follow the written plan. For heaven's sake, this argument is very old, but.... The "them" that wasn't stopped "from in fact creating two countries" were the Dulles brothers, Eisenhauer and the US military. It was "them" that decided to back some Catholics from the south who didn't want Ho in power, and Ho was certain to win the election. So they stopped the election and pretended that "South" Vietnam was a real country. It wasn't. That was the beginning of the mess. Or at least the beginning of the culpable US part of the mess, the mess itself predates that time by a number of decades, the French take the honors there. It is the failure to recognize the fiction that was elevated into "fact" that is the cause of a good many dumb arguments about who invaded whom in Vietnam. If one takes the Geneva Accords seriously, there can be no argument. The US was wrong. End of story.