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To: longnshort who wrote (346948)	8/16/2007 7:44:58 AM
From: Taro	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574616

Read "No More Vietnams" by Richard Nixon. One of his better books, quite solid. Besides the events he also writes about about "How the war was won - and how we lost the peace". The bad guys really got bombed back to the stone ages. It took Ho a full 2 years to re deploy until his troops could again attack the South. All of that in open violation of the peace with nobody bothering. The media rules the US back then. Now they are at it again. Now I know all our dear libs will fall over me for defending this book and it's contents. None of same dear libs, however, is likely to have read same book, nor do they ever plan on reading it. Ignorance is a virtue in that camp as long as one only ignores the "right" things. Taro

To: longnshort who wrote (346948)	9/4/2007 12:59:24 AM
From: Thomas M.	Respond to of 1574616

I am aware that we killed many people, but that wasn't the mission in Vietnam. The mission was to win the support of the people. I don't even see an empty, unsupported claim to that effect in your articles (which were plagiarized from God knows where). The internal discussions by the American leadership throughout the war agreed that we never made any progress. The only debate was how harshly to punish the yellow gooks (as LBJ, Nixon, etc referred to them) for disobeying us. Some wanted to commit total genocide with nukes (Nixon, Lemay, you), others merely wanted them to suffer a bit from chemical weapons (JFK and the doves). Tom