Bart Senior wrote:
President Bush was right. Kerry should be honored for being
there. But it should also be recognized that he bailed out
after only four months, and became a turncoat .....

Everybody I know who supports the Vietnam War has been been suckered into
imagining that an evil communist regime in the north attacked the free
democratic government of the south - kind of like happened in Korea. That's
what I thot too because that's what JFK's whiz kids told us.

Sorry suckers, but that isn't the way it happened. After whupping the frog,
Vietnam partitioned *itself* to see if capitalism would be better *for them*
than communism. Ike figured that, with a little US help, North and South
Vietnam would be like East and West Germany by the time the election came,
but that didn't happen. The North thrived by 3rd world standards (with help
from the USSR) but the South got stuck with a murdering Catholic dictator
who funneled US aid into his family's Swiss bank accounts - a dictator so
repressive that Buddists (the majority religion) were burning themselves in
protest! So, as the election scheduled to reunify the country approached it
was obviously going to be Commies by a landslide. Meanwhile, JFK conferred
with the Pope, made sure Cuba stayed communist, then went to Dallas, leaving
his Whizzers in charge of 'managing' LBJ. Whizz Kids were Ivy League bean
counters with inflated self esteem, who looked down on both the military and
LBJ. Appalled at the thot of loosing another country, and prolly all SE Asia
to communism on their watch they 'reasoned' that the dictators who replaced
Diem could win the hearts and minds of the people given a US military
presence. They knew that LBJ, Congerss and the American People would never
agree so they first created the Gulf of Tonkin Incident then set their plan
into motion.and when it failed they added more and more men. It is an
indisputable fact that it failed even then. After bankrupting the USA and
getting 50,000 or so American boys killed, McNamara quietly admitted they'd
been wrong, wrote The Pentagon Papers, and moved on to head the world bank
where he orchestrated the collapse of the dollar.

Gradually, enough Americans wised up to make Nixon pull out (As some say his
dad should have done) and now Vietnam has essentially the same government it
would have had if the Whizzers had allowed the election to be held on
schedule. That is an indisputable fact. But oddly, many Americans prefer to
remain ignorant of these facts and blame the people who got us out of there
for loosing the war - perhaps because they suspect that *they* lost it and
need to cover the guilt. But guess what suckers - winning was SecDef
McNamara's biggest nightmare because winning would have made us look like
France. That's why you would *never* have been allowed to "win".

JFK worshipper Kerry believed the whizzers and volunteered for 'nam; but
when he got there he learned the truth - that even non-communists were
fighting us for the self determination our puppet dictators refused them -
and went home to try to end that idiotic war before more of America's best
got sent there to die. To the ignorant, who's lives he and folks like him
saved, that made him a turncoat.