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Vanity: Am I the only one upset by this...
Me | May 23, 2016 | HarleyLady27

Posted on 05/23/2016 8:53:04 AM PDT by HarleyLady27

This to me, is a total disgrace to America and our Veterans that served during Viet Nam.

We have a wall with names of fallen Veterans that served this Country for it's freedoms and making it safe, and this President goes there and offers them weapons and other things...

Maybe I am upset because a lot of people I knew served there, people I grew up with, boys that I dated, men that I rode with, that never came back home...

I was privledged to see the "Viet Nam Wall" when I went with the Rolling Thunder out of PA. This was very hard for me as I found the names of my friends and have them today...

This worthless POS does not respect America nor does he respect our Military or our Veterans...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: thewall; veterans; vietnam; vietnamvets; war
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To: faucetman

Vietnam was a battle in the larger Cold War, which we inevitably won. The deaths were not in vain.


61 posted on 05/23/2016 10:32:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: DesertRhino

I get your point.
Socialist regulation has this country in a stranglehold on entrepreneurs, no doubt.

However, there are other considerations that weigh in how “free” a country is, other than economic freedom.

Vietnam’s political and human rights status is awful.
That country has inserted language into the TPP which forbids any expression of government criticism by All TPP signatories.
Catering to capitalist cloaked communist Vietnam’s TPP demands will eventually result in further erosion of our very own political and civil rights.
That onerous provision is one of the reasons why TPP disclosure’s were hidden from the public.

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2015/vietnam

Freedom in the World
Vietnam
Freedom in the World 2015
2015 Scores
Status
Not Free
Freedom Rating
(1 = best, 7 = worst)
6.0
Civil Liberties
(1 = best, 7 = worst)
5
Political Rights
(1 = best, 7 = worst)
7
Overview:
In 2014, Vietnam continued to suppress freedom of expression online, in print, and through public demonstrations. The state enacted Decree 174 to institute harsh new penalties for certain types of speech in blogs and social media, expanding upon government powers to censor internet and social media usage in place under a previous decree. Several high-profile internet writers and bloggers were arrested, while the trials of other prominent activists proceeded despite international pressure for their release.


62 posted on 05/23/2016 10:46:14 AM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: chajin

Clinton began it already. It was the only good thing he did not under duress from the Republicans who were then an opposition party.


63 posted on 05/23/2016 11:09:34 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i libeThere are no moderate Moslems. There are Moslems who arsrali soli o feccia.)
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To: HarleyLady27

The DiC is a commie. Why be surprised

And yes it angers me


64 posted on 05/23/2016 11:15:53 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: MarchonDC09122009

That same list for press freedom shows the UK, USA, and German press as free. All three, including us, are prosecuting and imprisoning journalists. You are free as hell to say what they like, or to be a gadfly. If you are actually causing them discomfort, you will be silenced by arrest, surveillance, and harassment.
Even here, everyone fully assumes that every word we say is collected an analyzed,
You’re on a mission. Give it up.


65 posted on 05/23/2016 11:21:04 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: HarleyLady27

For nine years running, my husband and I rode our Harleys from Boston to attend Rolling Thunder...from ‘91 to ‘99.

I am so appalled by this treasonous pResident.


66 posted on 05/23/2016 11:37:16 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: HarleyLady27
Germany and Japan are our close allies now. It's the way of the world, always has been. Your enemies today could very well be your allies tomorrow. France and England were enemies for hundreds of years. Thank God they were during the American revolution. Without France's help, we don't beat Britain. We both have a true enemy in the region, China. We need as many allies as we can get against them (Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, Philippines)...
67 posted on 05/23/2016 12:11:07 PM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: al_c
Yeah … as if it’s okay to give weapons to foreign countries, but it’s not okay to be a Christian CHL holder in this country.

Well...I don't think we'll be giving weapons to Vietnam. They will pay. A lot.

68 posted on 05/23/2016 12:43:13 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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To: Purdue77; BenLurkin; DesertRhino; Hawthorne

I don’t know why, but this whole thing makes me want to laugh.

I think it is the infuriating absurdity of it. Who would have thought, in our lifetimes, we would be having discussions like this?????

That our President would go to Cuba and have the stupidity to stand grinning and holding hands with communists under the visage of a mass murderer, and do the same thing with a communist in Vietnam.

Damn, I know they are old and toothless communists (except for their own citizens they continue to gum to death) but...they are still communists.

And the absurdity is that we are here talking about the finer points of it!


69 posted on 05/23/2016 12:50:16 PM PDT by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

And that’s probably what it’s all about … money.


70 posted on 05/23/2016 12:55:08 PM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: BenLurkin; Purdue77

Sometimes you do things because they are in your interest. Not because you like doing them.

Vietnam is an historic foe of China. That, and access to Cam Ranh Bay, is in our interest.


71 posted on 05/23/2016 3:20:44 PM PDT by Pelham (Trump/Tsoukalos 2016 - vote the great hair ticket)
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To: HarleyLady27

I dunno, I don’t see much difference between what he did and what Jane Fonda did.


72 posted on 05/23/2016 6:39:32 PM PDT by Fast Moving Angel (It is no more than a dream remembered, a Civilization gone with the wind.)
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To: Fast Moving Angel

Hanoi Jane and John...two peas in a pod with the Kenyan in the center...


73 posted on 05/23/2016 6:42:51 PM PDT by HarleyLady27 ('THE FORCE AWAKENS!!!' Trump; Trump; Trump; Trump; 100%)
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To: HarleyLady27

I guess the same argument could have been made against Germany and Japan, but now they are some our stronger allies!


74 posted on 05/23/2016 8:35:30 PM PDT by longhorn too
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To: HarleyLady27

I don’t love it but I do think its a move to counter what China is doing in the Spratley Islands just a hop, skip and jump from Cam Rahn Bay.


75 posted on 05/23/2016 8:40:58 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: BuffaloJack

“We should have normalized relations with Vietnam 30 years ago, so that we could trade with them and build factories there.”

You understand the only reason to build factories in these places is because they can work their slaves in conditions we would never allow here? That is a big factor in why wages are so low. Is that worth hollowing out our manufacturing? It certainly surrenders any moral high ground.


76 posted on 05/24/2016 3:35:06 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: HarleyLady27
There are no permanent friends or enemies, only permanent national interests

The Vietnam war was a mistake because the communists there had successfully taken on the role of anti-colonialists. The d***** French, instead of wrapping up their colonies nicely at the end of WWII, tried to keep them and the USA ended up looking like we supported colonizers.

77 posted on 06/06/2016 6:43:13 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: dfwgator; Little Ray

well, the vietnamese have a reason to hate the chinese — the chinese dominated them for two long periods in their history


78 posted on 06/06/2016 6:45:07 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: Seruzawa

That wasn’t done for altruistic reasons — the Vietnamese were afraid of encirclement by China (The Cambodians, strangely enough, were and are Chinese allies)


79 posted on 06/06/2016 6:47:46 AM PDT by Cronos (Obama's dislike of Assad is not based on his brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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To: HarleyLady27

Perhaps, but they stopped the Khmer rouge anyhow when no one else would.


80 posted on 06/06/2016 9:24:11 AM PDT by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost, like tears in rain.)
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