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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (173740)	10/31/2005 5:03:07 PM
From: Suma	Respond to of 281500

This message is copied and pasted from a Viet Nam Vet. I wonder what your reply to him would be predicated on this post you made here.. See Cynndwllr..(Ed) re: Leahy's words lighted up a deep, dark secret that this nation would rather forget. Defeat in Vietnam was a catastrophe for the U.S., a body-slam to the nation's self-confidence. It was far worse for Southeast Asians, who were exiled, imprisoned, tortured and murdered by their vicious communist conquerors. What an idiot that op ed writer is. It was a "catastrophe" to lose in Vietnam? It was "far worse" for the SE Asians? And no discussion of the cost of the alternative of "staying the course? It doesn't get any more stupid than that. Let me help you out. We spent hundreds of billions of dollars in S Vietnam, we lost almost 60,000 American soldiers DEAD, and hundreds of thousands injured. MILLIONS of Vietnamese died, some say 6 million while others say 2-3 million. Most of the dead Vietnamese were civilians. AND IT WAS GETTING WORSE, NOT BETTER, WHEN WE ESCALATED THE CONFLICT. The only frigging catastrophe was starting it and then not stopping it when we should have realized we were doing more harm than good there. I'm getting tired of responding to your shotgun drivel. It's foolish to try to discuss any important issue with someone who can't stay on topic and keeps changing the subject from one bankrupt notion to another. Ed