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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (9498)	12/30/2006 3:30:23 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

The Vietnam War was a big fat lie and hoax. How dare you smear a great honiest American like Walter Cronkite simply for trying to tell the truth. I suppose you would hgave preferd some kind of Nazi propaganda minister who tells the people "we're winning and we are undefeatable!" The reason we failed there was the same reason we've failed in Iraq. Because the Presidents (LBJ then Nixon and now Bush) either believed in a deluded reality or outright lied to the American people. Or both. Because all three definitely lied. Vietnam was a civil war, and a country halfway around the world we didn't understand. It was a hostile environment where we couldn't tell friend from foe. Our friends were very corrupt and our enemies learned how to defeat us using guerilla warfare. The war was pushed politically by war profiteers like Halliburton as well as far rightwing war mongers who believed in some kind of sadistic imperial USA fantasy. There was no "defeatist" movement, that is ridiculous. There was no way we could have ever won that war. We dropped more bombs on that poor country than in all of WWII. We killed something like 2 million people. We spent 55,000 of our own men and in today's dollars trillions of bucks down the drain. But it made no difference because it was a totally flawed war to begin with. We could hgave killed 5 million and they still would have kept fighting. Watch the film "Fog Of War" where Robert McNamara one of the architects of the Vietnam debacle admits it was all a big lie and a huge mistake. He admits now that it just a civil war we had no business being in the middle of, and that the Soviets and Chinese had nothing to do with it either. The whole domino theory was a fraud, and the Gulk Of Tonkin "attack on US warships" never even happened. If you want to lose a war, make up a bunch of lies then send our troops into someone else's civil war in a hostile environment. We will lose those fiascos every single time.