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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

So do I... and not only for this, but for his comments in his autobiography, where he stated that they KNEW going in that we could never actually WIN in Vietnam, but they decided to keep that from the President and go to war ANYWAY.

I equally loathe Henry Kissinger... for writing off over 2000 men missing in action, many of whom WERE YET ALIVE, just so he could get his nobel peace prize.

58,000-PLUS of my generation killed and scores of thousands more injured and maimed to NO LEGITIMATE PURPOSE. And a goodly number of them were killed because McNamara pushed that POS M-16 on us that kept jamming in the field and folks found dead after the battle, with their rifles apart, trying to clear jams. You BET I loathe the pair of them.

57 posted on 06/07/2008 7:52:21 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)

And a goodly number of them were killed because McNamara pushed that POS M-16 on us that kept jamming in the field and folks found dead after the battle, with their rifles apart, trying to clear jams.

Yep, we should've stayed with the .308 M-14, which was a damned fine rifle.

60 posted on 06/07/2008 8:05:54 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner ("We must not forget that there is a war on and our troops are in the thick of it!"--Duncan Hunter)

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