Seven Myths About the Vietnam War

The New American ^ | March 25, 2002 | William F. Jasper

[taxed2death]

No, he recommended abandoning them.

[Killborn]

Anything else he did?

[onedoug]

The Vietnam War is still going on, economically, socially and politically, and we are winning it to the undying glory of all those Americans who lost their lives, bodies and family members there.

Whether or not we ultimately succeed of course, turns on not being intimitated as then by the same left trying to do the same thing to our resolve in Iraq, where if we lose, the whole world - including what would be left of America - will descend into chaos.

[RLK]

Myth # 9: Once we propped up Diem, we were doomed. When Ho
was busy fighting the Japanese, Diem was picking daisies in Paris. If
you're a peasant Vietnamese, which one are you going to listen to?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Is this your way of dismissing my opinion?

[RLK]

You bought into a left wing fabrication that has become a tytpe of urban myth.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

I see. So in your opinion, Sheehan's Pulitzer Prize-winning A Bright Shining Lie was in fact itself a bright, shining lie?

[RLK]

I'm not responsible to what other people think or writr, their stupidity, or the mistakes they make. There are Pullitzer prizes that have been retracted. There are people who have been awarded Pulitzers who should not be walking the streets. Please don't quote other people's garbage to me.

[winker]

I have to refute your Myth # 5. I was stationed on guam in the Air Force. I was on break one day and I noticed a large contingent of media types who turned out to be a CBS News Crew headed to Vietnam. Morely Safer was among the group being whisked aboard a plane headed for Vietnam.

I returned to my duties and some time past until rotated out on a TDY assignment to return to my base in Plattsburgh New York. I turned on the TV to catch some news one night before returning to Guam where I was stationed. He was interviewing a motley anti-American gathering at a remote location and they were smoking dope .. Hash, I think or something out of a shotgun barrel. The conversation was all about how they despised being there and wanted to leave. One discussion centered around how when in the heat of a battle an officer was "accidentally" fragged by someone, it was sickening. CBS was doing its usual mantra of Traitorous diatribes playing up the Anti-American aspects that "all" the Managed News Media is known for and particularly back then. I am sorry to explode your Myth # 5 but I was there and saw him on his way to produce his shamful acts of Treason and Treachery. The Archived documentaries exist somewhere and they should be resurected to alert the unsuspecting as to their Treason all these many years later. This and many more instances work to prove truth is stranger than fiction. This is the Gospel truth; I was there and saw it set in motion and it continued for the duration of "MY" war. #5 needs some modification The Managed News Media would not recognize the truth if it reared up and bit them in the BUTT!

[hosepipe]

bump..

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Please don't quote other people's garbage to me.

Thing is, I'm not. I suggested supporting Diem was a mistake; you suggested otherwise. I'd like to hear why you think putting Diem in a position of power was the right thing to do.

[Tailgunner Joe]

BTTT

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[Diva Betsy Ross]

Good post

[Kaslin]

So he said there are no POWs?

I never forget when he said that there were no POW and all had been returned. I thought to myself how could that be, the war had just ended

[Killborn]

Is Vietnam the only conflict where our POWs are unaccounted for?

[CIBvet]

But this article is from the JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY ... how can any of it be true, I ask??

[Coleus]

Because it is.

[Tailgunner Joe]

bttt

[Turret Gunner A20]

I think it’s about time we all review this information.