Since Roh insists the conflict is over, bring home our troops.
Regards
100 percent agree. SK funnels American cash and food aid to the NKs. If they want to call it a wrap; so be it.
As long as we are sure we never want to go back to Korea.
History shows that Murtha is wrong about the ease with which troops can be redeployed.
Truman abandoned a young and unstable S. Korea in 1949 (we had freed S. Korea from decades of Japanese occupation in 1945). Truman's Secretary of State, Acheson, stated that the US was no longer interested in protecting the Korean peninsula.
Then, after North Korea invaded the South in June, 1950, Truman changed his mind.
Truman decided to send troops back to S. Korea to fight "a police action" against "bandits."
(I guess we could say, "Truman lied and good men died," because the so-called "police action" against "bandits" resulted in the deaths of 30,000 Americans in 30 months. That's 10 times the number of US deaths per month in Iraq).
Those men would not have been killed if we had kept our troops in S. Korea in 1949.
"Most everyone agrees that had the U.S. troops remained, there would have been no war."
A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE KOREAN WAR, By Jack D. Walker
Ironically, a Democratic administration which had washed its hands of S. Korea in 1949 ended up imposing the severest wartime press censorship in memory and found it necessary to ramp up the military draft.