"John Rennie" wrote in message
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> "dechucka" wrote in message
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>> "Bill Bonde ( 'Hi ho' )" wrote in message
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>>>
>>> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:
>>>>
>>>> qwerty wrote:
>>>> > "PJ O'Donovan" wrote in message
>>>> > news:1180001593.125847.45740@o5g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>>>> >> http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1624697,00.html
>>>> >
>>>> > Perhaps not. All this information comes from an undisclosed "Senior
>>>> > U.S.
>>>> > military official" and "several other sources" which are not named,
>>>> > thus it
>>>> > is unsubstantiated:
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/05/24/klein/print.html
>>>> >
>>>> > This sounds a lot like the bogus crap fed to us by the Bush
>>>> > administration
>>>> > in the run-up to the War. The Bush administration just loves to leak
>>>> > false
>>>> > "facts" to a friendly journalist and then point to the published
>>>> > article as
>>>> > proof! This isn't news but propaganda is crap!
>>>>
>>>> I'm old enough to recall similar reports about how the US was winning
>>>> in
>>>> Vietnam.
>>>>
>>> Did the US win in Korea?
>>
>> No
>
> It depends on what Bill means by 'winning'. At its simplest, they did.
> The north invaded the south and at its end the north had been evicted from
> the south. However as we all know (I hope) after the Inchon landing
> MacArthur's troops overwhelmed the the Northern Koreans and reached the
> Yalu river. It was then that the Americans began to lose and lose in a
> frightful manner. The Chinese crossed the river in their millions and
> the Americans ran and ran and didn't stop running until they reached the
> Southern border. Perhaps the correct verdict should be a draw. The
> Americans kicked the North Vietnamese out of the South and the Chinese
> kicked the Americans out of the North. Honours even.
It was the UN not the US
>
>
>>
>> Did you hear reports about that or are you too
>>> young? How about WWII? Did the US win that one?
>
> It certainly won the war against the Japanese aided to some extent by the
> British and Commonwealth (that means Australia). In Europe it helped.
> How far it helped can be argued. The major cause of the Germans' defeat
> was its attack on the Soviet Union.
exactly
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