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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.

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What people won't face is that the so-called "peace" movement was run by the American Left - old guard Communists - in direct communication with Hanoi and Moscow and Beijing throughout the Vietnam War. Their numbers were inflated through dimwits that either wanted to avoid serving themselves or members of their families serving in combat. It still fries me that our government did absolutely nothing to try the leaders of these cells for treason - just sort of stood by and watched.

Note how all of the demonstrations dried up when Nixon stopped the draft.

These same Leftist cells are opposing anything we do around the world now and are the vicious center of the efforts against President Trump.