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And I suspect you should know how insulting that phrase would sound to someone who fought and bled there. I spent 17 months in Vietnam, the last four of those as a scout observer with the grunts. There is no group of people on Earth that I am more proud of. We fought well and would have secured South Vietnam's future if it hadn't been for a pro-enemy network throughout our country - and the ineptitude of our leaders in explaining what was really going on and why we were there.

My own story is here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3552686/posts

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We fought well and would have secured South Vietnam's future if it hadn't been for a pro-enemy network throughout our country - and the ineptitude of our leaders in explaining what was really going on and why we were there.

This is so TRUE!.

My mother, with only an 8th grade education, told me at the time--this is a political war being fought by politicians. She was so right.

Thanks to the Democrats of that era, we left, we betrayed the South Vietnamese when the North invaded in '75, and as a result over three million people were slaughtered by the Communists in SE Asia in the ensuing years.

John Kerry and Jane Fonda and their ilk bear the responsibility for that.

Our troops fought well under horrible conditions, and for their efforts were spat upon and maligned upon their return home.

[ExGeeEye]

I’m likely to say it again next time the subject comes up.