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To: shrinkermd

Democrat Congress defunded South Vietnam, and it fell.


3 posted on 07/22/2008 4:29:58 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bernanke is a Monetary Slut!)
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To: Uncle Miltie
An embittered and tearful President Thieu resigned on the same day, declaring that the United States had betrayed South Vietnam. In a scathing attack on the US, he suggested U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had tricked him into signing the Paris peace agreement two years ago, promising military aid which then failed to materialise.

"At the time of the peace agreement the United States agreed to replace equipment on a one-by-one basis," he said. "But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?" He continued, "The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."[121]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War

7 posted on 07/22/2008 4:32:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Bernanke is a Monetary Slut!)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Give the man a cigar—as long as it’s not a Cuban cigar.


19 posted on 07/22/2008 4:42:24 PM PDT by KrisKrinkle
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