Vito wrote:
First, the Viet Cong didn't need to infiltrate because many never left.


I guess that explains why, according to Viet Nam's own version of
events, they sent 10,000+ infiltrators to the South.



.... They
controlled both the Mecong Delta region AND the North when the country was
partitioned.

No they didn't. Ho Chi Mihn's gov't didn't even 'control' all of the
North, there were serious revolts & uprisings against him right through
the 1950s and most of the 1960s too.


... Those who'd whipped France simply hid their weapons awaiting
the election.

With orders to disrupt same, since it was obvious that nobody... nobody
at all... was going to vote to "unite" under Ho's gov't.


... Then Diem & Co set up a government similar to Saddam's
Baathists. Only family were allowed any national authority and only
Catholics were allowed to hold even local village offices.

While I'm not going to claim the Diem gov't wasn't corrupt & ineffective
at the end, it certainly didn't start out that way. Diem began
appointing his family only after a few years of "disloyalty" by others.
I don't know where you get the idea that only Catholics could hold
office, there weren't enough Catholics in the country.


Diem won a legitimate election as Prime Minister, then engineered a
gov't changeover that left him with more power and the emporer with
less, then engineered another election.

Of course, according to your version of "history" this never happened.

... If an "isolated
village" of Buddists elected a Buddist leader Diem sent a squad to kill the
electee and install a Catholic.

???

Funny how I've never heard anything about that.

....That led some Viet Cong to dig up their guns
and indeed disrupt Diem's plans by murdering those appointed 'Government
Officials'.

Yeah, somewhere between a thousand and ten thousand.


... until the South Vietnamese Government refused to abide by the
agreement and hold reunification elections.

yeah yeah, you will not ever grasp the fact of this matter, will you?


That's because your "facts" are in fact faith-based and without foundation -
except of course in Diem's notes (c:

Funny thing about that... my facts are from people who were there when
it all happened. Your version seems to be free-form pro-communist
fantasy... except that even the communists don't make some of the claims
that you do.

DSK