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To: stockman_scott who wrote (167800)7/30/2005 8:32:38 PM
From: bentway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 281500
 
Peace with Honor in Iraq? We should at least have learned enouogh to avoid the shameful "helicopters off the roof of the embassy" photos!

Nixon's "Peace with Honor" bugout announcement:

watergate.info

Good evening. I have asked for this radio and television time tonight for the purpose of announcing that we today have concluded an agreement to end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam and in Southeast Asia.

The following statement is being issued at this moment in Washington and Hanoi:

At 12:30 Paris time today [Tuesday], January 23, 1973, the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam was initialed by Dr. Henry Kissinger on behalf of the United States, and Special Adviser Le Duc Tho on behalf of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

The agreement will be formally signed by the parties participating in the Paris Conference on Vietnam on January 27, 1973, at the International Conference Center in Paris.

The cease-fire will take effect at 2400 Greenwich Mean Time, January 27, 1973. The United States and the Democratic Republic of Vietnam express the hope that this agreement will insure stable peace in Vietnam and contribute to the preservation of lasting peace in Indochina and Southeast Asia.

That concludes the formal statement.

Throughout the years of negotiations, we have insisted on peace with honor. In my addresses to the Nation from this room of January 25 and May 8, [1972] I set forth the goals that we considered essential for peace with honor.

In the settlement that has now been agreed to, all the conditions that I laid down then have been met. A cease-fire, internationally supervised, will begin at 7 p.m., this Saturday, January 27, Washington time. Within 60 days from this Saturday, all Americans held prisoners of war throughout Indochina will be released. There will be the fullest possible accounting for all of those who are missing in action.

During the same 60-day period, all American forces will be withdrawn from South Vietnam.

The people of South Vietnam have been guaranteed the right to determine their own future, without outside interference.

<More, incl. audio @ link>
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To: stockman_scott who wrote (167800)7/30/2005 8:47:10 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
Yessum, those calling for more troops have been drowned out by those leaking the trial balloons from the US and UK gov'ts. Balloons (looking too much like surrender flags) saying we're getting out because we have run out of troops because we had zero idea about what we were getting into and because we were too stupid and arrogant to plan a dang thing.