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From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly)
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Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam
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Date: Tue, 5-Jun-84 14:04:49 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  5 14:04:49 1984
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>From: martillo@ihuxu.UUCP (Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo)
>
>In view of Communist tendency to slaughter the local peasantry for lack of
>progressivism I am somewhat stunned that people would seriously assign
>the USA sole responsibility for 2,000,000 Vietnamese deaths.  The USA is
>responsible for running the war incompetently and for gutlessly abondoning
>the Vietnamese to communist barbarism.

This kind of statement is born out of ignorance.  Does this person know what
the treaty obligations of the U.S. are to Vietnam as a result of the settlement?
Does he know how many the U.S. has kept?  Does he know the state of Vietnam when
the U.S. was done, in the words of a U.S. general, "bombing them back to the
Stone Age" and defoliating their country with carcinogens?

	"Running the war incompetently"?  Are you kidding?  
How about "criminally"?  How about "without any regard for the future of 
our allies or enemies"?  It shakes my belief in human reason that years after
the war has ended, and the overwhelming balance of evidence has shown the dirtiness
of U.S. behavior in the war, people still refuse to admit that war was wrong.
Period.  Not "misguided".  Not "mismanaged".  Wrong.

Mike Kelly