They blamed the Veterans then just like...
Two reasons:
1. The Dems wanted to weaken Nixon.
2. The Dems wanted to get their hands on the war money (remember revenue sharing with the states which followed immediately?)
Some of the key Hanoi Lobbyists who helped bring about the congressional cut in aid to So. Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos in the face of Hanoi’ all-out invasion, are in DC this week at a Kroc Center/NYU Institute conference about the war.
Speaking or scheduled to speak are the top Hanoi operatives including
Tom Hayden - the brains behind the Aid cut program, acting on, by his own admission in October, 1973, Hanoi’s directions given to him in Paris in mid-October.
Cora Weiss (nee Rubin, as in Soviet asset and listed Communist Party USA elector, Samuel Rubin/Foundation), longtime leader of the apparently CPUSA founded/dominated Women Strike for Peace (i.e. Pauline Rosen),of the POW family literally blackmail operation known as COLIFAM (join the antiwar protests or no mail from their relatives in Hanoi), and her German-born refugee husband, Peter Weiss, one of the top Marxist-aligned lawyers (a partner of the late William Kunstler and Morton Stavis/CPUSA).
Ron Young - Of the various Mobilization Committees to end the War in Vietnam, then against Israel as a pro-Palestinian activist
Charles Clements- a doctor who aided the FLMN Marxist guerrillas in El Salvador. Former Air Force officer. Now works on “human rights” projects.
Daniel Ellsberg - of the Pentagon Papers affairs. Turned on US policy after having been a hawk. Blamed it on the PP papers which he knew was only part of the story. His late partner on the project, Anthony Russo, was an out and out vocal supporter of the communists in Hanoi.
Marilyn Young - NYU professor and founder of the maoist-oriented Committee of Concerned Asian Scholars. A nice person but still a hardcore red (see some info on her at www.keywiki.org, search under her name).
And there are more Marxist, or just hate-America radicals there in the audience or on stage, such as Phyllis Bennis, Marxist from Crossroads, Institute for Policy Studies, and the Vietnamese-American Friendship group during the war. A real anti-Israel wackjob, but slick as a greased pig.
The conference was taped by CSPAN and should appear after it ends on Friday.
There is a red stench in DC this week because the number of traitors who have gathered in one place.