[robowombat]

Since the left is busy trying to repeat with Iraq its stab in the back performance in Viet Nam this article is of some interest in reprising how US armed forces did not lose that unhappy conflict but decisons by the national command authority and the actions of communist sympathizers did.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Great post!

[2banana]

Myth #8. Minorites fought and died in higher proportions than the population of America as a whole. That it was a "white man's war" fought by black men.

[Killborn]

MYth 7 Is the saddest.

We have the capabillities. We should go back and liberate the POWS.

[Robert A Cook PE]

Sobering.

And timely.

[R. Scott]

This should be required reading in all schools – high schools as well as collages, and comprise an entire semester for Journalism Majors.

[ElkGroveDan]

I highly recomend Richard Nixon's book "No More Vietnams" It's in paperback and its an easy read. He makes most of these points and substantiates it all with good facts and arguments.

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=2WI4BZFQUM&isbn=0877957266&itm=32

[Steely Glint]

All those myths are indeded myths, but with one elaboration: there was a religious element to the VC. A number of the VC fought because a significant persentage of the French-educated and French-trained leaders of the Republic of Viet Nam were Catholics, while the mass of the peasants were Buddhists. A number of Buddhist VC's gave that as a significant reason when asked why they were fighting.

It's so sad to see the anti-American Left trying telling the same kind of lies that they used in Viet Nam to try to get us to run away from Iraq.

The anti-American Left has no shame. None.

[RLK]

The article: A breath of fresh air and a step in the right direction.

[LiteKeeper]

SPOTREP

LiteKeeper
Chaplain, US Army, retired
VN - Nov67-Jun69

[RightWhale]

Once the bombing of Hanoi had begun, the war could have been finished off in 3 weeks. In any case it was the beginning of the end of Communist expansionism. In that sense, the Vietnam War was a success even if it wasn't America's war. Too bad about Cambodia, that would not have happened if America had finished the job rather than withdrawing.

[hosepipe]

Good article.. saved....Thanks...

[Mr. Thorne]

bump

[Gunner Mike]

Thanks so much for the information to logically destroy Liberals in place.

[GrandEagle]

Great article!
Kinda of interesting though....the last time I suggested some of the things that this article states, seemed like people came out of "the woodwork" to accuse me of being anti-American.
Nice to see people still interested in the truth.

[Rummyfan]

Bump for later read.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Nice piece, thanks for the post.

Seems to me the whole thing boils down to Landsdale (sp?) backed the wrong horse. 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?

[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.

[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..

[Tailgunner Joe]

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