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No ideology, just facts

Posted by: Nikhil Jaikumar ( DSA, MA, USA ) on September 01, 1999 at 11:26:01:

In Reply to: Ideology Running Amok - The Phoenix Program posted by Stuart Gort on August 31, 1999 at 13:23:20:

You know what, sir/ Your post just made me realize that lying is wrong! WOW! What a revelation!

Unfortiunately for your case, however, the anti-Vietnam War argument does not need the fraudulent claims of Mr. Manzione to back it up. Mr. Manzione opposed the war, and apparnetly he was a fraud. (I'll take your word for it). So did a lot of Catholic priests, Quaker priests, civil rights activists, socialists, and plenty of other honorable people. AQre you going to call them all frauds too?

Our intervention there was wrong. The reasons for thsi have been beaten to death al;ready, so I won't bore you. Just a few reminders.

1) Accoridng to Eisenhower, 80% of Vietnamese wanted Ho Chi Minh for their leader.
2) Our chosen man in South VN, Diem, apparently held eight times as many political prisoners as Brezhnev's Russiua.
3) We converted North and South VN into the two most ravaged countries in the history of the planet, destroying their economy and environment and causing birth defects galore.
4) Less refugees fled Vietnam after the Communist liberation than fled from America after the 1776 Revolution.



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