[WHBates]

"I remember his actual broadcasts."

So do I and many joined the fight after those broadcast. The actual defeat (U.S withdraw) didn't occur until 1975??? I think many things happened in the intervening time.

[brazzaville]

Good afternoon.

Our forces were gone by 1973. American aviation units helped stop the NVA offensive in 1972, using the TOW missile in combat for the first time to kill NVA armor, but most American forces were gone by then. The ARVN also put up a good fight, killing enough communists that it took the bad guys another three years to build up enough force to launch the final offensive.

Democrats in Congress and media icons like Cronkite ensured a commie victory in the end by cutting off all material support for the South Vietnamese. I don't think our president and our military will allow that to happen in Iraq.

The next few hours should be very exciting.

Good luck to our forces and the people of Iraq.

Michael Frazier