[vbmoneyspender]

I am not following you. When did we pull our troops out -- didn't that occur at the beginning of 1973 after the South Vietnamese and the North Vietnamese had signed the Paris Peace Accord, which resulted in the return of our POWS? And didn't that, in turn, give Nixon more of a free hand to provide the South Vietnamese with the military supplies they needed?

[U S Army EOD]

Kerry made the speech on 10 Jan 72. The North Vietnamese attacked in force during Easter of 72. The South Vietnamese were never given all the supplies they were promised. In fact we never even replentish all the ammunition they fired up in the 1972 Easter Offensive. I talked to one Vietnamese Captain I knew who was trying to hold a bridge just north of Saigon in 1975. He only had about 30 rounds of 5.56 mm ammunition for his entire company, not per man but for the entire company. We totally sold the Vietnamese out. We had promised them air support if they were attacked again. It never came.