hummingbird wrote:
> On 7 Dec 2006 04:39:21 -0800 'PJ O'Donovan'
> posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
> >Anyone construing those figures to spin that America got its "arsed
> >kicked in Vietnam" is either living in a mythological fantasy world or
> >is desperately in need of a course in remedial arithmetic.
Arithmetic? Let me see:
first, there was South Vietnam (a rightard puppet-state with no popular
support and led by a vietnamese-speaking bloke they found wandering
around a uni campus in the US).
Then there was NO South Vietnam anymore, after the commies took over,
despite the Yank rightards vowing to "stop" them.
Simple arithmetic? Commies 1, Yanks 0 Zero. Nil. Nada.
> Surely it isn't important how many Vietnamese were killed for each
RIGHTARD, there is an overwhelming obsession with BODY-COUNT>
> American, America still got its ass kicked and fled Saigon in
> helicopters. It's adventure there is recorded largely as a failure.
Let's be precise about this:
Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense, 26 March 1964:
"The U.S. role in South Vietnam, then, is
- first, to answer the call of the South Vietnamese, a member nation
of our free-world family, to help them save their country for
themselves;
- second, to help prevent the strategic danger which would exist if
communism absorbed Southeast Asia's people and resources; and
fantasy>
- third, to prove in the Vietnamese test case that the free-world can
cope with communist 'wars of liberation' as we have coped successfully
with communist aggression at other levels."
they were actually capable of defeating in Granada, as we know.
Woo-hoo>
And Iraq?
Found the WMD yet?
Found legal backing for the invasion?
Gained UNSC approval for the invasion?
Brought peace & democracy to Iraq?
Obersturmbahnfuehrer von Rumsfeldt's career?
Yanks are useless.
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