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From: ken@ihuxq.UUCP (ken perlow)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Vietnam controversy
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Date: Fri, 15-Jun-84 01:21:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 15 01:21:20 1984
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>> There could have been no fair democratic election in which the
>> Vietnamese communists took part.  Ho Chi Minh never had more than
>> minority support among the Vietnamese people.  However the
>> communists were willing to brutalize the Vietnamese people in a
>> way which was unacceptable to all other Vietnamese factions. 
>> This brutality gave them the strength to win...
>> Brutal communist regimes seem
>> to be impossible to replace.

>>                     Yehoyaqim Shemtob Martillo

I'd like to see some references.  I was under the impression
(dupe of the Commies that I must be) that Ho Chi Minh, a very
charismatic war hero, was really elected in a real, fair election--
before the CIA decided to contest it.  But whether he got in by
deceit or popularity, his totalitarianism was no better nor worse
than that practiced by our succession of puppets in the south.

Brutal regimes of the right AND left seem to be impossible to
replace--with democracy, anyway.  Both the US and USSR romp all
over the world, though, exchanging one for the other.
-- 
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