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To: Arkie2
Yeah they did, and they were wiped out in the Tet offensive.

I wasn't sure if that was intendedly ironically. It's my understanding that all the heavy fighting after the 1968 Tet offensive was done by the NVA, the VC having been proven to incapable of defeating the US and ARVN, give their spectacular defeat. Tet was a propaganda victory but a military debacle.

8 posted on 08/04/2002 4:40:14 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
It's my understanding the NVA ordered the Tet offensive and wasn't sorry to see the Cong wiped out. It cleared the way for them to totally dominate Vietnam after the war.
9 posted on 08/04/2002 4:43:33 AM PDT by Arkie2
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Tet was a propaganda victory but a military debacle.

The importance of your fact (above) cannot be stressed enough. That propaganda victory:
1) demoralized Johnson into not seeking re-election.
2) emboldened a Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.
3) emboldened the N. Korean hijacking of the USS Pueblo and the imprisoning of the crew.
4) led to the Marxist Yippy riots at the Democrat National Convention, the first step in the subsequent Leftist takeover of that party.

( Others on this forum can probably add to my list. And I wouldn't be surprised if intelligence showed that there was a link between the Tet Offensive and the Assassination of Martin Luther King and the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy. )

14 posted on 08/04/2002 6:10:20 AM PDT by bimbo
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