“One thing Sheikh Sattar keeps saying is he wants al-Anbar to be like Germany and Japan and South Korea were after their respective wars, with a long-term American presence helping ... put them back together,” MacFarland said. “The negative example he cites is Vietnam. He says, yeah, so, Vietnam beat the Americans, and what did it get them? You know, 30 years later, they’re still living in poverty.”
http://alphabetcity.blogspot.com/2007/02/ramadi-shaykhs-in-no-hurry-to-see.html
Sattar: “The time for dictatorship is gone, and we are welcoming the new dawn of democracy and freedom here. I expect the future to be much better for the next generation for they will live in a better world than we do today.”
http://alphabetcity.blogspot.com/2007/03/video-shaykh-abdul-sattar-abureeshah.html
A minor point, and I don't expect him to be real accurate on the nuances of what really happened with Viet Nam, but this sentence is somewhat erroneous:
He says, yeah, so, Vietnam beat the Americans, and what did it get them?We won every battle in Viet Nam, we did not lose one.
Kerry and Fonda (traitors both) beat the Americans. And they are trying to win the War (On Terror) for the enemies at this time also. Along with the traitorous Liberals, in and out of Congress