Posted on 01/30/2014 5:28:07 AM PST by DJ Taylor
How soon we forget.
The Communist Party took over the Democratic Party in 1932 with the election of FDR.
The never could have pulled it off with Cronkite and CBS.
“All Communists are ends justify the means liars (period)”
The same goes with Muzzies. Collectivists and Muzzies are two peas in a pod.
The Democrats have the blood of at least a million on their hands Because of the deaths of those who tried to flee from the communists in Vietnam.
This link takes you to a Marxist website, “In Defense of Marxism”, not “Personal Experience”.
Thank you Walter Cronkite, you old leftwing quisling.
I was in Saigon recently. People as young as their twenties acknowledged to me that you, Sir, are a Hero. Evidentally the reeducation camps had failed. The truth always wins and is winning more and more everyday.
Today's Vietnamese government still considers itself Communism. It's a token more than anything these days. A a symbolic token that says "we beat the strongest nation in the world". Beyond that, their recent actions are proving more and more that the fight for their system of government was a mistake.
Recently the Viet Cong has placed the tourist industry and other industries under the control of the private sector admitting that government control has failed.
Everywhere you go in Saigon there are free markets on the streets, capitalism growing.
Sadly, while Vietnam moves more towards to what we once were, we are moving more towards what they were fighting against us to become. This is a bad message we are sending present and former communist governments of the world. This time, I hope they do realize it's stupidity on our part.
While there is still work to do in Vietnam, I can assure you that even today the people know your true intentions and they were good.
They may have won the political war, but their actions show that they have indeed lost the argument.
I thank you for your service and thank you on behalf of the many people I have met who were born long after you left that place called Vietnam I thank you.
I’m sorry that I confused you, but posting on FR requires a http:// source or your post won’t be accepted.
I tried N/A in the block requiring a source and FR wouldn’t accept it, so I used a website relevant to the subject.
Apparently, personal experience isn’t an acceptable source of information on FR.
A few lesser known details of the Tet Offensive.
At the head of the list, the Viet Cong really had no choice to carrying out the Tet Offensive, first because the at-the-time almost unknown Phoenix (counterinsurgency) Program, was devastating them, tearing them apart. They had only weeks or months left before they were annihilated.
The second reason was that they were ordered to carry out the Tet Offensive by the North Vietnamese Army, who had lost patience with the Viet Cong and wanted them to either win by overthrowing the southern government, or to die trying.
The bottom line is that despite their best efforts, after the Tet Offensive, the Viet Cong were effectively wiped out. While indeed caught off guard, the Americans and the South Vietnamese ARVN responded forcefully and effectively and destroyed the Viet Cong utterly.
My brother fought with the 1st Marine Division in Hue City. He had just returned from R&R the day before and his company was sent out from Phu Bai to relieve the MacV compound in Hue which was under siege.
They barely made it to the compound and the 2/5 was called in to assist and help clear the area south of the Perfume River. After they were decimated the 1/5 was brought in to clear the north side and the Citidel. The Marines were actually outnumbered by NVA regulars and placed under firepower restrictions early on so not to destroy the city. He rarely talks about it to this day.
I was in Viet Nam a year later but thanks to his council I stayed out of the Infantry and was in transportation. I was lucky enough to visit Hue then. It was called New Hue as it had been rebuilt with US tax dollars. I was only there for an afternoon but heard about the mass graves north of town where thousands of South Vietnamese, murdered by Communist Cadre when they took over the city, were being unearthed.
My older brother volunteered for the draft—and was a driver —of a ball-buster /Tank Hauler was there during TET. When I enlisted in 69 my brother came to see me off— and the US Army types ushering us into the system deferred to his experience —but seemed a bit upset that he had come -especially given his “what are they goin’ to do —Send me to ‘Nam” attitude.
Your link is interesting.
And the Communists erroneously thought that the Tet Offensive would trigger a general uprising of the South Vietnamese people who would rise up and throw out the Americans. They thought they would win and this would be their final offensive.
That is why they murdered with impunity over 3 thousand South Vietnamese civilians in Hue and buried them in mass graves north of town. Of course, no uprising happened and the local VC forces were decimated by our guys. But the mass murders at Hue were a sign of things to come later when the communists finally got control in 1975
I was at Camp Pendleton then, scheduled to end my enlistment in July....they were rushing troopies over there left and right, some with as little as three months remaining on their term.
Fascinating and well-written account.
Yes, Tet 1968 does mark the time that the Democrat party went from the party of JFK to the party of Bill Ayers.
There are a LOT of older democrats (my parents included) that still think that the democrats emmulate JFK. Obama has been an eye-opener for some of them, but not enough.
I remember seeing a 60 Minutes interview of a fellow who had been in the North Vietnamese Army. During the interview he said that all the men in North Vietnam had been sent to fight in South Vietnam. Chinese troops had taken their place in North Vietnam.
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