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1 posted on 07/16/2009 9:24:22 AM PDT by seanmerc
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you suck


58 posted on 07/16/2009 10:53:39 AM PDT by BJClinton (One Big Ass Mistake America)
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[. . .(Gen.)Westmoreland . . .who kept escalating the troop numbers after the 1967 Tet offensive in Vietnam. His strategy produced a debacle for us.]

Tet began Jan. 30, 1968. It resulted in the death of about 50,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops. The U.S. lost around 1,500 troops (KIA) and the South Vietnamese forces less than 3,000. North Vietnamese Gen. Giap tried to apply a strategy, used by Mao in China and Castro in Cuba, that predicted urban populations would revolt and turn against the South Vietnamese government when the NVA and VC attacked the cities. But most South Vietnamese had an opposite reaction and the offensive was a defeat for Giap. However, the U.S. news media immediately began to spin the Tet Offensive as a communist victory. Instead of exploiting the crippling losses suffered by the NVA President Lyndon Johnson threw in the towel. He suspended U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese logistics centers and the supply lines that would be used to slowly rebuild the NVA presence in the South.

The real “debacle” took place in 1975 when a cabal of Democrat traitors—including Church, McGovern, and Kennedy—led Congress in cutting all funding and U.S. military support to South Vietnam. After beating back two massive North Vietnamese offensives, the South was finally overrun by the North which was equipped and supplied by the Soviets. This led to systematic genocide and a huge refugee flood out of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Two Democrat presidents, a Democrat Congress, and their ignorant enablers in the news media, like Thomas, authored this debacle.

63 posted on 07/16/2009 11:37:55 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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“The Face That Sank A Thousand Ships”


64 posted on 07/16/2009 2:48:47 PM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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Seems as though Hellen is continuing to hold a grudge. Journalists should be ashamed that this is one of the most hard-hitting articles Obama has had to face- and it’s pretty weak sauce!


65 posted on 07/16/2009 5:51:14 PM PDT by Melian ("Now, Y'all without sin can cast the first stone." ~H.I. McDunnough)
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Don’t tell me even Helen Thomas is turning against Obortion Obama.


67 posted on 07/16/2009 9:17:48 PM PDT by Salvation (With God all things are possible.)
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