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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (73365)	11/5/2006 9:32:32 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Respond to of 93284

After Nixon and Kissinger took over, more than 20,000 US soldiers died in Vietnam. You call that "getting us out of Vietnam", idiot?!

To: steve harris who wrote (73365)	11/5/2006 9:34:52 AM
From: sea_biscuit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"President Richard Nixon announced the first withdrawal of American soldiers from South Vietnam in late 1969 and their replacement by South Vietnamese troops. The new policy was dubbed Vietnamization by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird and hailed as the beginning of the end of America's war in that land. But the North Vietnamese leadership in Hanoi wasn't fooled for a minute. The communists believed Vietnamization was intended only to de-Americanize the war, not to end it. Hanoi was right, more right than anybody at the time could have imagined. In the five-plus years of war after Nixon's first inauguration in January 1969, more than 20,000 American soldiers would die; Nixon would actually widen the war by invading both Cambodia and Laos; and brutal American bombing campaigns would kill more than a million more Indochinese. In fact, more Indochinese and Americans would be killed or wounded during the Vietnamization years than in the war before 1970. "