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On 2/6/14, 4:25 PM, wrote:
On Thu, 06 Feb 2014 13:19:13 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

On 2/6/2014 8:41 AM, Poco Loco wrote:

Smoking is very popular overseas. I think that's where the cigarette guys are making the big bucks.
In Germany, Marlboro was king.

And China.

In retrospect I always believed we fought in Vietnam to make the
country safe for Budweiser and Marlboro. It is a shame we didn't tell
the guys getting killed that at the time.
Hell I tried to go twice myself when I thought it was for freedom and
democracy. Wiser heads prevailed and both of my requests were denied.

I tried to go once, just for money at IBM and that was denied too.

Weren't you fellows aware of ThÃ*ch Quáº£ng Äá»©c, who set himself on fire in
1963 to protest the oppression of the Diá»‡m government? There was no real
question of freedom and democracy in Vietnam, even after Diá»‡m was
assassinated and through the dozen or so governments that followed.

I think we were there in force because it provided products to make for
our military contractors.