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Re: Overwhelming Firepower is Bad doctrine

#1441
From: Dharmananda
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 05:02
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Ed Moise wrote:

>> "ThomasT" <mauicop@hawaii-politics.com> wrote in message
>> news:cngouo$2gt$1@blackhelicopter.databasix.com...
>> > General Vo Nguyen Giap (paraphrased): "I thought I was going
>> > to lose the war after the disastrous failure of the Tet Offensive
>> > so Kerry's Vietnam Veterans Against the War was a godsend.
>> > Thanks, John, I couldn't have done it without you!
>> > " http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/2/10/222651.shtml
> 
> This is not a paraphrase of anything actually said or written by
> General Giap.  It is only a paraphrase of something that Oliver North
> falsely claimed had been written by General Giap.
> 
> North claimed Giap had written this in a 1985 memoir.  There is not
> 1985 memoir by General Giap.  And there is no memoir by Giap of any
> date that contains this statement.
> 
> Ed Moise


The latest in a long line of ridiculous, stupid, dishonest, foul, vile,
self-serving, petty, rancorous, Dilbertesque, benighted, stupid,
Neanderthal, Neanderthal, Neanderthal, stupid, half-witted, bird brained,
foul, disgusting, stupid, gauche, cretinous, drooling, blind and stupid
Repug forgeries.

Oh, and hey, did I mention STUPID yet?

-- 
Triratanam sharanam gaccami
Dharmananda

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