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To: HPilot who wrote (247328)	4/25/2008 9:10:51 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793800

Ford's relevance to Vietnam is virtually nil. I don't want oil prices to jeopardize the Iraq War. * * *

To: HPilot who wrote (247328)	4/25/2008 9:28:30 AM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793800

Actually we lost the Vietnam war because Ford was stupid! I was always under the impression we ultimately lost because Congress defunded operations.

To: HPilot who wrote (247328)	4/25/2008 3:28:39 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793800

The Democrat controlled Congress did it~~ In August 1973 the Congress passed the Fulbright-Aiken amendment which cutoff all funding for US military forces in or over or from the shore of North Vietnam, South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia yaleglobal.yale.edu Compared with 1972, the quantity of supplies was nine times as high, including six times as high in weapons and ammunition, three times the quantity of rice, and twenty-seven times the quantity of fuel and petroleum products.” 8 The communist victory was almost guaranteed when, following the Fulbright-Aiken amendment which had cut off funding for all direct or indirect American support activities in the war zone, the U.S. Congress appropriated only $700 million for South Vietnamese defense for the year ending 30 June 1975, down from $1 billion that had been authorized and less than half of $1.47 billion requested by the Nixon administration. “In a nakedly mean-spirited act, provisions were inserted prohibiting even the purchase of fertilizer for South Vietnam in FY 1975.” 9 Frustrated by this breach of faith, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker observed “Had we made good on our commitments, it could well have been a different story