Bumping a 2006 thread.
Let sleeping dogs lie, Travis.
I do not have a single good word to say about this man, I don’t need to say anything bad either.
Folks expect the enemy to look like some creature from the lost lagoon — however; most look “respectable and human” like Kennedy, Clinton, McCain, Reid, Durban, etc, etc.....
I never observed an NVA/VC corpse or prisoner who looked dangerous or a threat...
They appeared as "normal" in every observable respect.
It was their ACTIONS prior to becoming a corpse that made them dangerous and a threat.
Such an enemy was Kennedy....
One day - I hope the entire nation can see the scope of his betrayals...
There will be months of media blast telling us of all the wonderful works of Kennedy -— with hardly a mention of the devastation his positions have cause abroad and at home...
Kennedy was CORRECT to scoff at the 100,000 deaths if we abandoned Vietnam.... The actual toll was approximately 10x higher....and encouraged subsequent enemies of America -- both external and internal.
Making the figures worse — is that those killed by the Communists were our allies, including many Catholics... The devastation wrought on our loyal ethnic hill people allies, was the most heartbreaking.
Many fought on for decades after we abandoned them..
* Rummel
o Vietnamese democide: 1,040,000 (1975-87)
+ Executions: 100,000
+ Camp Deaths: 95,000
+ Forced Labor: 48,000
+ Democides in Cambodia: 460,000
+ Democides in Laos: 87,000
+ Boat People: 500,000 deaths (50% not blamed on the Vietnamese govt.)
* ANALYSIS: I'd say the most likely total would be 430,000. That's 65,000 executions + 165,000 camp deaths + 200,000 boat people. It's unlikely that VN alone caused 460+87T democides in Cambodia + Laos since estimates of the total deaths in these conflicts only run to a half million or so.