Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC840302); site mcvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!mcvax!piet From: piet@mcvax.UUCP (Piet Beertema) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam Message-ID: <5859@mcvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 11:13:11 EDT Article-I.D.: mcvax.5859 Posted: Fri Jun 15 11:13:11 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 03:05:48 EDT References: <973@ihuxq.UUCP> <272@cepu.UUCP> Organization: CWI, Amsterdam Lines: 26 <...> >We \*W O N*/ the Military war. Your way, yes. Which seems to have nothing to do with reality. >Each and every battle we won, after the Tet offensive the >Viet-Cong did not exsist.... The Viet-Cong never existed. That was an American invention. Perhaps you mean the Viet Minh? THAT were the Vietnamese that once fought the French oppressors and after that the US. >Anywhere our troops wanted to go, they went.... Only to get their asses blown off. 40000 hits. >What we lost was the political war, a failure of courage on >the part of our leaders. A victory for common sense of common people. >Mainly because they tried to win the war cheaply.... How much did it cost the US taxpayers? >Contrary to popular belief Saigon did not fall to an army of >barefoot, black suited gurellias, but to a MODERN mechanized army Thought you said you "WON" that war. BTW, the word is "guerilla". -- Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam ...{decvax,philabs}!mcvax!piet