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There's nothing to apologize for. The men in Vietnam were aggressors and invaders and war criminals. They deserve no special consideration.
Obviously you were not in the conflict with that negative statement. All the American souls that were KIA during this conflict were there due to our government. This wasn't a vacation area , it was a kill zone and we lost too awful many military in this conflict.. You should kiss the ground you walk on and Thank the military "past and present" for that ability.
Another one who could be counted as Communist North Vietnam's friend is Walter Cronkite but at least he didn't to to the communist troops to show his support. He did it from his news desk and then turned a blind eye to the mass murder the North Vietnmamese did after our troops left. American soldiers accidentally killing innocent civilians were cause for moral outrage on the evening news. Communist troops targeting civilians for mass slaughter went ignored. I wonder if it had something to do with Cronkite working for CBS while in the Soviet Union for several years?
When are some of you people going to get over her and her part in the war back then? Do you pay any attention with the Hollywood twits that go over to Venezuela to break bread with and support Chavez? I adore Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and the whole lefty hollywood gang and just ignore their politics.
Yes, I did pay attention to them and they disgust me. However, our troops weren't fighting against Chavez's troops. They go to party with horrible government leaders who either imprison people who speak out against them or shut down newspapers or television stations that speak ill of him and then talk about America as if it's the evil nation of the world. Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Danny Glover, and all the others like them will never get one penny of my money.
texdav, our troops in vietnam were supporting and defending the government of Vietnam from the Communist north supported by China.
Huh;reread my post . We actually were supporting a french setup government when we went into vietnam. We took over from the french. During the world war II Roosevelt was patitoned by vietnamese leaders to oppose french keeping colonial possession after the war. Again after the war truman was patitioned.This was a vietnmanese nationalist. We turned him down both times. He was a south vietnamese citizen named Ho Che Minh.He then turned to China which supported him . By the time we took over from the french we really had one interest;to prevent the long held domino theory from happening. But that is not what the OP post was about and my original answer was.
Obviously you were not in the conflict with that negative statement. All the American souls that were KIA during this conflict were there due to our government. This wasn't a vacation area , it was a kill zone and we lost too awful many military in this conflict.. You should kiss the ground you walk on and Thank the military "past and present" for that ability.
Please.
Mai Lai Massacre anyone?
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Originally Posted by Jim280
If I had my way the ****** would have been left in Nam face down in a rice paddy.
Gee, that makes you a good person.
Good think that you aren't given the opportunity to murder people who you disagree with.
Or do you want others to do your dirty work for you?
Congratulations chielgirl, you remembered one instance of American soldiers killing civilians intentionally. You must be proud. What you failed to mention was that those soldiers were punished for their actions whereas the communist North Vietnamese were never punished for their torturing of prisoners or mass executions of people, civilian and military.
Vietnam vets protest Jane Fonda's Broadway showing
Vietnam vets protest Jane Fonda's Broadway showing (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090221/ap_en_ce/people_jane_fonda_1 - broken link)
NEW YORK – It's been decades, but Jane Fonda still can't shake her "Hanoi Jane" image from the Vietnam War.
About a dozen Vietnam veterans and other protesters on Saturday picketed the theater where the 71-year-old actress is starring in the Broadway play "33 Variations," telling passers-by that she had once visited their Viet Cong enemy in Hanoi.
Yipes, is she that old already? No. We'll never forget or forgive. She is just as much of a traitor now as she was then.
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