To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (36010 ) 7/12/2005 7:22:30 AM From: AuBug Read Replies (2) | Respond to Well, gee, apparently you don't remember it THAT WELL. The French fled in 1954 after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam was partitioned into N and S at that time, with the North going to the Commies. Oh, BY THE WAY, Eisenhower, a Republican, was President in 1954. He slipped in the first "advisors" shortly after the frog defeat. JFK increased their numbers.Yes, you're right, a Republican president got us in that mess. My point was that both parties got us in deeper and deeper and neither party had the solution to win. We lost. We cannot win a guerilla war. The Dominoe Theory has morphed into stopping the spread of terrorism instead of communism. Just another boogeyman to justify US military imperialism. Makes one wonder why bush has 680 people from 43 countries imprisoned in his concentration camp in Cuba. No where as many as died under Truman and his 2 atomic bombs dropped on cities filled with civilians. Depends on whether you count the night carpet bombing by the British. If you say so. They were certainly heated or the pilots would freeze to death at that altitude, that's conditioning too. WWII bombers like the one my dad flew on even had open windows so he could fire his 50 cals side gun. My dad was chief instructor of cockpit electronics for the F4H Phantom while stationed at Miramar Naval Air Station and I happen to have a copy of the 1961 McDonnel Aircraft F4H Plane Captains Handbook here and on page 53 it says that when starting or stopping the pod engine the refrigeration should be turned off. Why would they have refrigeration if they don't have AC? Yep, guerillas who disappear into the civilian population. Same old same old. A guerilla war that cannot be won by invaders. Are you saying we intend to make Iraq the 51st state of the union? It would have been better to have made Japan the 51st, Germany the 52nd and Italy the 53rd. Or maybe they are given that we have so many military bases in their countries 60 years after WWII ended. Especially to immoral leaders like bush. sad, is that the best you can do to insult an independent?
