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This just goes to show how confused facts become. As was the case with Viet Nam...as will be the case about 9/11, Iraq and this whole anti-terrorist initiative when George Bush is long out of office. Unfortunately most of the American public has a short memory about past wars and major, life-changing historical events. They really didn't understand all that was happening in the first place, and it is simply easier to condem the actions of their own country than try to research for the truth. Most fall victim to some short, well-written accounts of past wars, that have some aspects of truth but,in essence, are more inaccurate than fact-filled.

This is why we rarely agree on what really took place, when, how, and why. The scary thing is what is in today's "history" books in schools. So many things written in these classroom books about our nation's past are twisted, innacurate - or just blatent lies - and usually portray any American military action in a dark light. Try to tell today's youth the truth about something you remember clearly about WWII, the Korean war or Viet Nam...and they will argue the point because what they are learing in school is so opposite, at least when it comes to anything related to national defense.

How kids are being brainwashed by the liberals (who control education) in America to hate US agressive actions (based on emotionally charged writings geared to instill guilt, not patritosm and rather than present facts), is in some aspects, just like the children in the mid-East being spoonfed hatred of our culture in the clutch of Al Queda/terrorist leaders.