[Rhodes22-list] Political/warin Iraq.

[Wally Buck]

Steve,

It was our government that spread lies about Viet Nam.

Wally

>From: Steve <rhodes2282 at yahoo.com>
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>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Political/warin Iraq.
>Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 06:12:47 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Rummy
>You are so wrong on this.  We didn't win the Vietnam
>war because people like John Kerry telling lies and
>the liberial media getting behind people like that
>instead of supporting this country and the people that
>were fighting for it.  What if this country would have
>done that in WWII.  Just run up the white flag when
>the Japs attacked.  Mercy, Rummy; you got to think
>positive about this country.  This country stand for
>everything that is good, right & moral.  We have to
>show leadership and be prepared to back it up when
>some dictator flip us off.  Support your country; show
>a little patriotism.  That not to much to ask.  If not
>for your country; do it for the 3,000 people that the
>terrorists killed.  Remember, we have to clean up any
>country that support terrorist or they would just move
>from one area to another.  Thanks to Bush, we are
>showing them that they don't have any place to hide.
>And we are coming after them whereever they go.
>Steve
>
>PS - Let all go sulute our flag:-)
>--- R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> > Let's get something straight. The Vietnam war was
> > NOT something we could
> > have won. Unless we would have been able to erect a
> > fence around the entire
> > country and stop infiltration of the VC, it wouldn't
> > have mattered what we did.
> > In order to win, you have to have the hearts and
> > minds of the people you are
> > fighting for supporting you, and simply put, the
> > Vietnamese didn't care.
> > The Arvin soldiers (Army of the Republic of Vietnam)
> > were some of the worst
> > soldiers you could imagine. They were only in the
> > army to earn a paycheck and
> > free cigarettes. As soon as the fighting started,
> > all you would see is ass
> > holes  and elbows. The majority of the people didn't
> > care who won the war, just
> > so  the death and destruction would end.
> > JFK made the promise to support the South Vietnamese
> > government and all the
> > wealthy rubber plantation owners. It was not a smart
> > decision. When I left
> > country in 1971, there wasn't any usable timber in
> > the country because it was
> > all full of shrapnel which destroys saw blades.
> >
> > Rummy
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