To: RinaseaofDs
Viet Nam - started by Kennedy, exacerbated by Johnson, brought to the verge of victory by Westmoreland, lost by Cronkite, ended by Nixon.
You left out one small item. The Demorats defended Viet Nam just when things were turning around.
26 posted on
01/17/2011 12:14:10 PM PST by
mountainlion
(concerned conservative.)
To: mountainlion
No I didn’t. Westmoreland nearly pulled it off. He wiped out the VC during Tet. A senior VC general actually attested to this fact in lectures at several military academies.
We had literally won. The VC didn’t even have 30 days left by this general’s point of view.
Cronkite and Rather made sure we lost.
32 posted on
01/17/2011 12:33:04 PM PST by
RinaseaofDs
(Does beheading qualify as 'breaking my back', in the Jeffersonian sense of the expression?)
To: mountainlion
Viet Nam - started by Kennedy, exacerbated by Johnson, brought to the verge of victory by Westmoreland, lost by Cronkite, ended by Nixon. Vietnam was lost when we agreed to let France keep Indochina after WWII.
48 posted on
01/17/2011 1:53:35 PM PST by
dfwgator
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