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To: PapaNew

Nixon negotiated with the North Vietnamese and arranged a POW swap. It is hard to argue Obama can’t do the same.


7 posted on 05/31/2014 2:53:48 PM PDT by Soul of the South (Yesterday is gone. Today will be what we make of it.)
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To: Soul of the South

Did Nixon do it without the knowledge of Congress or at least the Armed Services Committees?


10 posted on 05/31/2014 2:56:30 PM PDT by jazusamo (Sometimes I think that this is an era when sanity has become controversial: Thomas Sowell)
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To: Soul of the South
That was after NV was forced to sign peace accords and the war was, for all intents and purposes won. It was done from a position of strength with an eye toward reconciliation.

soetoro did it from a position of weakness after surrendering with an eye toward appeasement.

51 posted on 05/31/2014 6:43:42 PM PDT by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where?)
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