<..America still got its ass kicked and fled Saigon in
helicopters...
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Myth: The American military was running for their
lives during the fall of Saigon in April 1975.
The picture of a Huey helicopter billed as military
helicopter
evacuating people from the top of what was billed as
being the U.S.
Embassy in Saigon during the last week of April 1975
during the fall of
Saigon helped to establish this myth.
Fact: This famous picture is the property of
Corbus-Bettman Archives.
It was originally a UPI photograph that was taken by
an Englishman, Mr.
Hugh Van Ess.
Here are some facts to clear up that poor job of
reporting by the news
media.
Facts about the helicopter at the fall of Saigon
It was a "civilian" (Air America) Huey not Army or
Marines.
It was NOT the U.S. Embassy. The building is the
Pittman Apartments.
The U.S. Embassy and its helipad were much larger.
The evacuees were Vietnamese not American military.
The photo was symbolic of revisionism by you left wing useful idiots of
the time.
Michael Lind: Vietnam: The Necessary War, pg 24-25
"While the Democratic majority in the US Congress refused to provide
the levels of aid requested by the Nixon and Ford administrations, the
Soviet Union increased its aid to North Vietnam supplyinmg its proxies
with superior weapons, including modern battle tanks
and anti aircraft guns..."
Martin Walker: The Cold War pg 114
"In the 1960s and 1970s anti Vietnam war critics claimed that the CIA,
which estimated that 12 to 16 percent of the Gross Domestic Product of
the Soviet Union was devoted to its military, exagerated the scale of
the Soviet buildup. After the Cold War it was learned that the CIA had
grossly UNDERESTIMATED Soviet military spending which was as high as 25
percent of Soviet GDP during that time.."
The US may have voluntarily forfeited continuing one proxy
confrontation with the Soviet Union in Vietnam and forfeited that
confrontation as a result of the resolve being undermined by the
Soviet's useful idiots in the congress in Washington.
The bottom line is, though, in
the long run, who won the big war, the Cold War?
You and your fellow useful idiots on the left are now just salivating
for another US capitualtion in Iraq,
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