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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (216828)	8/24/2007 8:27:40 AM
From: skinowski	Respond to of 793800

The Democrats’ obsession with .... pulling out almost all America’s 160,000 troops from Iraq has the whiff of the Vietnam days Absolutely... there is definitely an element of "echo-60's" up in the air. Boomers who are now professors, leading media people and Congressmen are regressing to their "progressive" youth. They are getting high on saving the world all over again. South East Asia was not the only place that paid a heavy price. ANGOLA. According to Kissinger, the U.S.S.R. since March has sent more than $200 million in military aid to the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola. In contrast, the U.S. had earmarked about $35 million in arms and equipment for two anti-Soviet factions before the Senate voted last month to ban further aid. time.com As i recall, at one point Angolans asked for $14 million for ammunition, feeling that this would be enough to crash the insurgency. Congress refused. I recall Kissinger's appeal to Congress - he said that this would be remembered as a day of shame in American history. He was wrong - no one remembers a darn thing about any of this. The rest is history - Communists running successful campaigns in Angola, the Cubans moved in, etc. etc. No one knows how many thousands of lives lives would be saved by those 14 mil.