Posted on 01/31/2020 6:53:04 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
During his 1972 gubernatorial run, Senator Bernie Sanders told high school students that the U.S. had committed acts in its war with Vietnam that were “almost as bad as what Hitler did.”
An article in Vermont newspaper The Rutland Herald reported on the comments, made while Sanders was campaigning for governor as a member of the Liberty Union party. The article was first unearthed by the Washington Free Beacon.
The North Vietnamese “are not my enemy,” Sanders told a class of ninth graders in Rutland while on the campaign trail. “They’re a very, very poor people. Some of them don’t have shoes. They eat rice when they can get it. And they have been fighting for the freedom of their country for 25 years. They can hardly fight back.”
The American death toll from the Vietnam War was over 58,000. The Herald reported that students pushed back against Sanders’s support for amnesty for draft evaders, saying it wouldn’t be fair to the parents of soldiers killed in the fighting.
Sanders also outlined other positions that may sound familiar to today’s voters, including increasing the minimum wage and availability of low-income housing, as well as increased access to dental care. He also charged that the Democratic Party was too beholden to large corporations.
The Vermont senator received around one percent of the vote in that election.
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What a pathetic Commie POS.
Bernie has always been a Communist. Who else would go to the old USSR for their honeymoon?!
It’s true. Just not on a grand scale. So what’s the truth? Whatever you wish to believe so Bernie gets equal time on the soapbox.
Commander in Chief Bernie Sanders. I cannot think of a more alien concept than that title......except perhaps Economics Professor Emeritus Bernie Sanders
The Viet Cong were brutal and committed horrendous acts against the Vietnamese people.
It only got worse when North Vietnam took over
The Bern needs to burn
Yeah Bernie, what a shame the Liberals got us into that war!
Hitler served in Nam?
So that’s where he was hiding.
This story coming out now will only serve to grow his support amongst his followers because they’re all communists.
Kerry lied about our troops in Vietnam. He then apologized decades later.
His Commie masters did much worse.
Great post. The commie coot has to go. He and Hanoi Jane always went out of their way to praise the Viet Cong scum. Now the two are gushed over instead of run out of town.
there’s miles of videotape from back in the day of bernie espousing virulent pro-kommie sentiments and related hateful statements ... more than enough to sink him with his own words in the general election should he make it that far ...
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