Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!hou3c!hocda!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Communist Attrocities in Vietnam Message-ID: <272@cepu.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 19:03:59 EDT Article-I.D.: cepu.272 Posted: Thu Jun 7 19:03:59 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Jun-84 00:48:33 EDT References: <973@ihuxq.UUCP> Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA Lines: 23 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) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-cs location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"