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  • Vietnam ‘Exit Strategy’ and Iraq: Déjà vu All Over Again? - (exactly! libs reliving "glory days!")

    06/28/2005 9:00:54 PM PDT · by CHARLITE · 11 replies · 480+ views
    CHRONWATCH.COM ^ | JUNE 29, 2005 | MIKE DOTY
    During hostilities in Vietnam, U.S. casualties were fewer than 10,000 at the end of 1967 and the beginning of 1968. From those days of the 1968 Tet offensive in Vietnam, to the close of hostilities in 1975, nearly 48,000 more American service personnel died. During that same post-Tet period, anti-war sentiment reached a fever pitch back in the United States. These statistics stand firm as a stark reminder of how a populace of an uninformed or misinformed nation can kill their own citizen soldiers, sailors, marines, and airmen. During this same post-Tet period, the senior North Vietnamese Commander, General Giap,...