Anybody got the Thursday August 3, 1995 edition of the Wall Street Journal laying around? An interview with Col. Bui Tin who served on Gen. Giap's general staff was published. Here's a part of the interview (I have not found the entire article).
"Q: Was the American antiwar movement important to Hanoi's victory?
"A: It was essential to our strategy. Support of the war from our rear was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable. Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda, and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses. We were elated when Jane Fonda, wearing a red Vietnamese dress, said at a press conference that she was ashamed of American actions in the war and that she would struggle along with us."
One site provided this link to other parts of the interview.
Here's one of Col. Bui Tin other comments: "Our forces in the South were nearly wiped out by all the fighting in 1968. It took us until 1971 to re-establish our presence, but we had to use North Vietnamese troops as local guerrillas. If the American forces had not begun to withdraw under Nixon in 1969, they could have punished us severely. We suffered badly in 1969 and 1970 as it was."
Of course this site is not a Eugene McCarthy Democratic Party or John Kerry Rat Party approved source like the esteemed Ed Moise.
This link above was provided by http://newsbusters.org/node/10406.
Don't let the media and politicians in Congress effect the execution of this war and we will win it.