AMERICA IS BETTER OFF For LOSING VIETNAM WAR (More Tom Henderson Baloney)

Lewiston Morning Tribune (Idaho) ^ | 05/15/2005 | Tom Henderson

[thelastvirgil]

Sit down to a steaming bowl of pho on a bustling Hanoi boulevard. Kick back on a languorous boat ride down the Mekong Delta. Swim at a secluded highlands waterfall. Welcome to Vietnam.

This is from a travel brochure from 2005. It's certainly not from an Army recruiting poster from 1965.

[thelastvirgil]

I posted an editorial from this crapweasel, earlier this week. I don't know where he gets his numbers or his twisted view of history, but he writes similar inane pieces daily. Just wanted to share another example of lefty stupidity.

[MikefromOhio]

The war in Vietnam cost 211,471 American lives. Yet we lost.

Anyone know where he got that number?

[Sidebar Moderator]

Do you have a link for this?

Thanks,
SB

[ElkGroveDan]

AMERICA IS BETTER OFF For LOSING VIETNAM WAR

Except that we didn't lose, we conceded. There's a big difference.

Anyone interested in the history of the whys and wherefores of the Vietnam War should read Richard Nixon's book "No More Vietnams."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I would recommend Bright Shining Lie by Paul Vann.

[thelastvirgil]

I would have posted a link, but it is a pay-per-view rag. You can find the earlier editorial at http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1400643/posts go to comment #12 for the entire article. I am new to posting, and wasn't sure if I could post the entire article, but finally got it in.

[Nyboe]

LOL anyone who thinks we lost the war is an idiot, we could have won it any day we liked, the leadership at the time just didn't have the balls to do what was necessary.

[Interesting Times]

Conspicuously absent from this "analysis" is the communist genocide that followed our withdrawal from Southeast Asia...

[Joe Bonforte]

Anyone know where he got that number?

Yes, but I don't wish to post the scatological reference that would answer your question.

[JoeDetweiler]

211,471 is the total number of American casualties in Vietnam. I'm not sure if John Kerry counts as one "lost life' or three "lost lives."

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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VIETNAM is definately NOT better off.


See:

Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts

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[Buffalo Head]

"Except that we didn't lose, we conceded."

We did neither. We won. We left. The war ended. Two years later, the North disregarded the peace treaty and overran the South while our Democrat congress watched and refused to reengage.

[tet68]

I'm not sure if John Kerry counts as one "lost life' or three "lost lives."



Didn't Kerry lose one of those lives in Cambodia, I
remember it was seared, SEARED into his memory.

[dighton]

Sit down to a steaming bowl of pho . . .

Another kind of steaming item comes to mind.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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And then there's...

Vietnam's war orphans set to return 30 years later (operation baby lift)

http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403483/posts

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[Mr. C]

Good Book!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

It made me cry. We telegraphed our every move to the enemy.
And, I'm not sure the country of South Viet Nam ever really existed...

[SteveMcKing]

This sh--head should be dragged here screaming, and then forced to read his piece aloud.

[StonyBurk]

got that number - I suppose by application of what we called "Beer math" when I was on active duty. OR maybe he
added in all those who have died since plus those whose lives were affected by them SE Asain war Games -- or maybe he got th enumber from Hanoi Jane -and is really taking about the number of Viet Cong,NVA, and Chi-coms killled.
a whole world of possabilities if one is talking to an America-HATER.

[StonyBurk]

Add War in the Shadows ,by Robert Asprey; Kiss the Boys Goodby,Monika Jensen-Stevenson;In the Jaws of History,
Bui Diem; and "the Palace File ,Nguyen Tien Hung & Jerrold
Schecter-IMO