I have no doubt about that. Vietnam is far from paradise. My main complaint with this thread, and most of the people posting on it, is they completely trivialize Vietnam's real problems by inventing bogus atrocities. Stick to the facts and there are plenty of reasons to criticise Vietnam. Making up 'fake but accurate' lies wishing they were true simply cheapens the message and makes one into a fool.
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NEVER FORGET
I personally have had my fingers run down long deep scars that had long ago been put upon Vietnamese Americans now living in California's Little Saigon.
Both men & women, who suffered for many years at the hands of knife wielding Peoples Army Guards in Communist Vietnam's"Re-Education" Concentration Camps afer the Fall of Saigon ..after we had CUT & RUN.
Scars that run from the middle of their stomachs all the way down to their navels.
As I did so they all asked me, with tears runing down their faces...
.."Why did they do this to me?"
.."Because they COULD" was my answer.
These victims of Communist tyranny were eagerly registering to vote here in the 2004 Presidential Election ...to enthusiastically vote against a man they knew had killed Freedom for their homeland South Vietnam long ago,
...one JOHN KERRY.
And they were correct in doing so.
The purpose of my devoting 2 years to continously posting on this important Freerepublic.com thread was to graphically share with my fellow Americans what the once Free South Vietnamese People were forced to suffer through after we had abandoned them, ...thanks to those who confused us here at home through our Media about our Freedom Mission of the Vietnam War.
My hoped for end result was the preventing those same people responsible for confusing us into leaving the Free People of South Vietnam behind, from doing so again to the now Free People of Iraq & Afghanistan.
By stopping them,
...at the Polls,
...from regaining control of our U.S. Congress & White House.
A White House that Al Qaeda today proclaimed would be bombed.
Our enemies abroad and Within have now been emboldened and we did it to ourselves by losing focus on what brought us all here in the first place ..the Attacks of September 11th, 2001 by Al Qaeda:
http://www.RickRescorla.com
The Vietnamese American Movie Release of 'The JOURNEY from the FALL' a year ago would have taken us a long way towards getting a different result then we got last Election Day Tuesday.
With a coming March 2007 Movie Release instead ..'JOURNEY' will still serve to remind us all of what happens to others when we abandon them:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
And to NEVER do it again..!!!
NEVER FORGET
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