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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (182355)	2/13/2012 7:40:53 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 544177

The thesis of the protest was never the strategy. It was what in the hell were we doing there at all. Killing all those people and destroying their country with agent orange? For what? To save the French colonization (being defeated at Din Bin Phu)! That and the right wings paranoia about the domino effect-pre bush's pre emtive war shit! Same philosophy neo cons have been sellign for a long time. Good for MIC. These right wing clowns had it in their mine to defoliate an entire country to win a war they had no business even being in. Destroying a country for the people. Really?? We hippies all saw it and defeated LBJ because of his insanity. It was full blown fucking insanity! That is why LBJ stays in the doghouse of history as far as I am concerned! <<I have books packed away written by people who interviewed Theiu who said the same thing--that they knew they could stall their way to a win. It's been so long though that I can't remember who wrote them and the title. The Vietnamese Communists played out desire for "peace settlement' like a virtuoso violinist wooing his true love. They knew they could wait us out as all they had to do was read American Newspapers to see how the public wanted us out of there. So despite Nixon's bombing campaign's they didn't give in to peace offers as they knew if were just patient enough all would be well. Somewhere around here I can probably find Kissinger's Memoirs on the thing.