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From: scw@cepu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Vietnam Controversy
Message-ID: <283@cepu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Jun-84 13:50:59 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 18 13:50:59 1984
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Reply-To: scw@cepu.UUCP (Steve Woods)
Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center; LA CA
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In article <148@iham1.UUCP> jnc@iham1.UUCP writes:
[origional posting deleted]
>Still, Yehoyaqim, you are more that justified in attacking the
>"brutalities" of the Vietnamese communists, especially in light of
>the humane and progressive actions of the U.S. government in
>Vietnam.
>
>At least our limited period of intervention in Vietnam allowed us
>to provide some assistance to the Vietnamese people, in the form
>of social services like the Pheonix program, the CIA-directed campaign
>to assassinate Vietnamese who opposed U.S. plans to make Vietnam safe
>for the Bank of America (60,000 Vietnamese assassinated. [1]).

Of course the VC/NVA never assinated anyone right? Hmmm, wonder who murdered
those 2500 people in Hue during Tet of '68 then? and how about all those
Hamlet/Villiage chiefs?

>And let's not forget the Agent Orange agricultural fertilization program!

On this we are in total agreement.

>Or the generous Vietnam landscaping project, in which the U.S. Air
>Force, at the peak of its bombing activity, dumped the equivalent in
>TNT tonnage of the Hiroshima A-bomb on Vietnam every 2 weeks!

I remember walking through an area that had been bombed about 18 months
before, the only way that you could tell where the bombs had landed was this
circle (about 40' across) of taller (read flourshing) rice.

>Or Lt. William Calley's March, 1968 picnic outing at Mylai!

For which he was charged with Murder (any only got off through a travisty
of justice, he, his company commander and that Brigade commander flying around
in that Helecopter should have been shot). But see coment *-3 above, I'll bet
that not one of the 'HEROS of the REVOLUTION (or whatever they're called)'
that were invloved in that has been even charged for the deaths of those
people (Oh, sorry I forgot that they were enemys of the People, and deserved
to be dragged out into a rice paddy and shot).

>
>Next time, let's discuss the underwater navigational aids we've
>installed for the Nicarauguans in their Pacific ports!
>
>		Jeff Coleman
>
>[1] Estimate by William Colby, CIA executive in charge of Pheonix.


-- 
Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology)
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