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To: Robe
Check the history of the billions pumped into the infamous Viet Nam era "Military-Industrial Complex."

We're seeing it again.

DUH! Go to the secret wars in Laos & Cambodia with the all-too-familiar heroin connection.

Viet Nam was about off-shore oil.
4 posted on 11/30/2001 9:13:27 PM PST by fliberman
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To: fliberman
Check the history of the billions pumped into the infamous Vietnam era "Military-Industrial Complex," ... to the secret wars in Laos & Cambodia with the all-too-familiar heroin connection.

Vietnam was about off-shore oil.

True enough. But it also was about freedom, and stopping communism.

What the above article does not tell you, is that Johnson was wrong. The Viet Cong were defeated. The last of them were mopped up in 1969. From then on, it was a different war, against a different enemy. That second war, easier to win, and was being won hands down. But victories were reversed politically, in the United States.


17 posted on 12/01/2001 12:33:23 AM PST by jackbob
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