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"Dave Smith" <adavid.smith@DELETETOREPLYsympatico.ca> wrote in message 
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> SaPeIsMa wrote:
>> "The General Public: .Are.. Lobotomized Sheep.." <The General Public.. 
>> Are. Lobotomized Sheep....@..711.34512..WBCHNC.News.ukuscan.ca> wrote in 
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>>>
>>> Don't forget Vietnam, where the north VC's crushed the American'
>>> invaders...and cowardly fools like faghorn where molested in the VC's
>>> camps.......
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Too bad you are a prime example of "lobotomized"
>> The ONLY reason North Vietnam took over the South was because the Dems 
>> abandonned the South Vietnamese
>> After the Tet Offensive, the North Vietnamese KNEW that they had been 
>> militarily defeated
>> Their top general admitted as much in his memoirs
>> That is why the North Vietnamese then put all their propaganda efforts 
>> into the Paris Peace talks
>> Because they knew that was the ONLY way for them to have the lefties in 
>> the US help them snatch a diplomatice victory from the jaws of military 
>> defeat.
>
>
> To paraphrase what he said to the American general who said that they 
> never beat the Americans on the battlefield, that is irrelevant. The fact 
> is that they won. The whole conflict could have been avoided had there 
> been a plebiscite on the reunification of Vietnam as per the Geneva 
> Accord, but the US lost interest in the democratic process when they 
> realized that the North would have won it. Instead, they backed a corrupt 
> regime simple because it was anti communist, and they later backed a coup 
> to remove the president. They pulled out of Vietnam knowing that the South 
> Vietnamese government was corrupt and that they could never hold off the 
> north.
>
> They had their chance to beat the Viet Minh at Dien Bein Phu when the 
> French requested air strikes against the enemy positions surrounding the 
> French forces. Instead, they allowed the French to be defeated, and then 
> ended up losing 60,000 of their own troops, and hundreds of thousands more 
> wounded, and wasting billions of dollars...... and lost.  It is a 
> recurring theme. Americans are on the winning side when they join their 
> friends and allies in a noble cause, but when they go it alone in major 
> conflicts they end up losing.



Nice work at revisionism
Definitely worthy of your namesake from 1984