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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam
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Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:03:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 19:03:59 1984
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Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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Ken Perlow states that we couldn't have won in Vietnam.

Ken, pardon my French but, that's *Bullshit*. We \*W O N*/ the Military war.
Each and every battle we won, after the Tet offensive the Viet-Cong
did not exsist (what passed for Viet-Cong were mostly North Vietnamese) as
a military force (much to the joy of Hanoi).  Anywhere our troops wanted
to go, they went (some times they had to fight to get there, but they 
always got there).

What we lost was the political war, a failure of courage on the part of our
leaders.  Mainly because they tried to win the war cheaply instead of trying to
just win.

To our great shame, we abandoned our allies for the sake of a few Million $
in ammo and equipment when they were \*QUITE*/ capable of holding on and
eventually winning.  Contrary to popular belief Saigon did not fall to an
army of barefoot, black suited gurellias, but to a MODERN mechanized army
with more tanks that the German army that beat France in 1940 and more trucks
than George Patton had under him (III US ARMY) in WWII!!!
-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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