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F*O*A*D

On 4/21/14, 8:37 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 19:39:44 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

On 4/21/14, 7:22 PM, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:44:43 -0400, F*O*A*D wrote:

I may have just done it to pull your string and that certainly worked.

I know your sympathies always rested with the Viet cong, not the GIs
and tweaking that was rewarding..

I doubt that you used that word to pull my string, but nice attempt at
recovery.

I certainly knew you would be the only one who was offended enough to
bitch about it.

If you think my "sympathies" were with the Viet Cong, you are far less
bright than I thought.

... he says

I certainly understand their point of view,
though...they were ****ed over by the French, then the Japanese, then
the French again, and then the Americans and the American allies, who
backed the dictator Diem, who reneged on a deal struck earlier to
reunite Vietnam. Once Diem was gotten rid of, a string of
American-backed thugs took over ruling South Vietnam until all of that
collapsed.

And then he told us how it was all our fault
Ah Harry, you are so predictable.
I bet you would have been there with Jane on the gun if she asked you.
(while Americans were being tortured a mile away)

No I was not in the jungle but I spent a lot of guys who were and I
knew one guy who died there.

We certainly learned our lessons there and put them to use in Iran and
Iraq, eh?

I am not really sure how any of that has anything to do with Iraq. Our
current policy in Afghanistan is closer but still not nearly the same.

What happened after the French left, in terms of our war against
Vietnam, was our fault.

No, I wouldn't have accompanied Jane Fonda on her trip there.

A lot of people in our general age category know people who died in
Vietnam, or who suffered horrific physical and mental injuries. And all
of those deaths and injuries were a waste.

I don't know why we are in Afghanistan. It wasn't a real country before
we got there and it won't be after we leave. It's too bad Moron Bush and
his henchman Chaney got us into it, eh?