Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:31:21 -0500, Boater
wrote:

No, you didn't. I wasn't dumb enough to get drafted
Damn - you are such an ass sometimes.

Nothing personal, Tom. I'm just unimpressed by our entire involvement in
Vietnam, other than the horror of 55,000 American lives wasted, tens of
thousands of U.S. troops seriously injured, and millions of Asians killed
and maimed. Those losses I find tragic and impressive. The war was
a...what's that term you old soldiers like...cluster****, the dumbest war
we got involved in in the last 100 years, until our recent one against
Iraq. Blame for it goes all the way back to the SEATO treaty.

I didn't have to resist the draft, but I have friends who did. *They* were
right.


God, it must be tough to be you. You are very close to, if not *the* most
cynical, negative person I've ever listened to sprew forth their POV's.

Eisboch




I should have "positive" feelings about our involvement in Vietnam? With
55,000 dead Americans, tens of thousands more seriously injured,
billions of our dollars wasted, millions of Asians dead, and nothing to
show for our "investment" there other than huge profits for the
military-industrial complex?

Hell, we didn't even learn any lessons from that debacle.

Tell me, Richard, what did we gain from that war?
What were we doing there, besides propping up a series of corrupt
right-wing dictators?

Vietnam was screwed by the French, the Japanese, the allies after WW II,
the French again, and then the Americans. All they wanted was us the
hell out of their country.