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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (65994)	8/28/2005 7:12:42 PM
From: Richnorth	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You wrote: Also once you realize you're in a quagmire, don't dig in deeper, get out. Cut your losses fast. Wouldn't it have been great if we had "cut and ran" in 1968 instead of 1973? You are absolutely right! In case some folks have forgotten it or they were born during or after the Vietnam War, they will do well to note that first, President Johnson, and then President Nixon, refused to pull out of the Vietnam War when each had a chance to do so because neither of them wanted to be the first president in US history to lose a war! So, it was stupid pride that got America quagmired in Vietnam until July 1973. As I recall, the turning point of the war occurred in 1968 when the Vietnamese assumed the initiative after their successful Tet offensives that occurred simultaneously in various cities. From 1969 to early 1973 Americans were told again and again that the US was winning the war and that victory was in sight. All that came from Nixon, the infamous Republican crook and liar! To be sure, we are seeing shades of Nixon in Bush, now a well-known liar.

To: American Spirit who wrote (65994)	8/28/2005 11:03:10 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

You say I lie, but don't identify one. LOL. Swell, if pretty hard to defend against, LOL! Vietnam taught me that some folks don't realize the that the spread of communism was a real threat to America and Average Joes the world over, and don't see that we could be experiencing far more communism yonder had we not stood in Vietnan as long as we did(in short, it might have been very terrible if we'd cut and run so soon as '68 in 'Nam, the results in terms of human life were horrendous enough in '73 with a weakened enemy). Dan B.