Reply #1: Thanks for this. So many DU'ers are too young to remember Vietnam

[KoKo]

and maybe don't understand that it was a dirty war...which under a "draft" they might have had to fight in. The atrocities were real. The outcry from the American Public (swayed by information coming out from the folks like Kerry and even the most outrageous anti Vietnam protestors made a difference) and we had to "cut and run" because that mistaken "WAR" was sapping our money and making America look like fools.

It was on the back of a generation that war was fought and the DEBT from that war held back the rest of us for decades.

The "revisionists" who are now making Vietnam seem like a war we should have stayed and finished are the same crew and croud who want Bush and the Corporations to run America and have now sucked us back into huge national and private debt with their VISIONS OF EMPIRE.

Suckered again....and unless we know what happened it Vietnam...we will never get out of the Middle East...but it's even more dire..our situation now. We don't have any money to pay for this...:-( :grr: