Posted on 03/29/2005 7:04:21 AM PST by Tailgunner Joe
Give me a f'in break.
Classy reply. He's right - though on the arms bit, it's to opressively control their people and neighbors right now. Given the chance, the'll get to the rest of us later.
People need to break out of their price obsession and take a look at what they are supporting with their purchases. It's like an established company with idiot managers, who buy critical elements from upstart competitors rather develop things on their own. In the short term they're covered, but they're sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
(And that's not even looking at the fact that the Vietnamese communists didn't want to help us with our dead and MIA. They tried to extort money from us to do this, and we refused.)
Should have done this in the 60's for their signing of the Articles of SURRENDER!!!
I said nothing of the kind. My comment meant only that the Viet Namese government deserves no support from the US. Nothing more. Anyone on these pages should know how I feel about Communists and their detestable cohorts in VN, Laos, Cambot and Burma. I was there in the 1950s, so no one needs to tell me what happened to these people.
"Why would anyone go to a Communist country? You must be from the left-wing Democrats love your enemy camp."
WTF are you talking about? How the hell does my cousin going on a hunting trip to Vietnam make me a left-wing democrat you idiot?
You are the IDIOT. A lot of my friends died for the freedom of that country which was denied by left-wing fascist demcorats.
I plan a return trip, hopefully we will open relations a bit more, you have to get a visa to travel there via mail, in Cambodia and Laos, you can get it on the border.
I went to the only fast food resturant in Saigon, a KFC, when it was built, someone made the mistake of saying to a Vietnamese government official (the last of the commies) that Colonel Sanders looked a bit like Uncle Ho, he was angrily rebutted "Ho Chi Minh was a General! This man was just a Colonel!"
I went there to scuba dive, and visit some historical sites from the war, I met dozens of vets who were going back, every one of them said they were treated extremely well, with dignity and respect.
Its a fascinating place.
"You are the IDIOT. A lot of my friends died for the freedom of that country which was denied by left-wing fascist demcorats."
I'm sorry about your friends but so did a lot of mine and I actually served in the military at that time. I don't know what that's got to do with my cousin. I think you need to get some help with you guilt and anger problems.
"I went to the only fast food resturant in Saigon, a KFC, when it was built, someone made the mistake of saying to a Vietnamese government official (the last of the commies) that Colonel Sanders looked a bit like Uncle Ho, he was angrily rebutted "Ho Chi Minh was a General! This man was just a Colonel!""
That's a hoot!
What sort of game animals did he hunt for? Most of the Tigers/Elephants had been killed off. I hope to hell he shot a few rock apes. I hated those little bastards!
COFFEE. Vietnam is kicking the pants off of Brazil and Colombia in sales of coffee.
Alternatively, the planning for a canal through Thailand continues...
"What sort of game animals did he hunt for? Most of the Tigers/Elephants had been killed off. I hope to hell he shot a few rock apes. I hated those little bastards!"
That's funny about the Rock Apes. I had a high school friend over there in the Marines stationed in Quang Tri province that told me stories about how much he hated the Rock Apes and used to fire at them with his M-79. He said the things would make lots of noise at night and they thought the VC were coming through the perimeter.
My cousin was invited (all expenses paid) by one of his Deer hunting clients to hunt Deer. Mostly he talked about the Tiger he saw and all the damned snakes.
Where'd you dive? I'd be interested in the details.
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