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Ttrryosborn

8 May 2008 - 7:37pm

Who's Being Impertinent?

BigC(RAP);

You throw out wild accusations about John McCain and then call scrutiny "impetinence"?

Sheesh.

Skipping lightly over McCain's suffering as a POW when your own father was one is impertinent and sad. I have the right to disagree with you and I will exercise it.

You left the veracity of your father's plight open to question when you dodged simple questions about him. You still haven't answered them.

Vietnam?

It is your privilege to maintain romantic notions about simple peasants fightng the US to "gain their freedom". It simply isn't accurate.

Your only piece of scrutiny in my text about the war is Ho Chi Minh's decision to start the war in the South. It is true.

Ho and the leadership in the North ordered the war at the moment they thought the government in the South was ready to fall. There was communist network in the South waiting.

The war went from a peasant revolt, to a guerrila war, to a mechanized war. I am surprised you ignore the NVA, the Ho Chi Mihn Trail, the Cambodian sanctuaries and the mechanized invasions in l974 and l975. It must be the romantic in you.

The US first supported the South with weapons and advisers and later with troops. The Russians and Chinese supported the North with weapons and advisors. Recent histories have revealed the Chinese stationed 30,000 troops in the North to help man the SAM missles.

The North controlled the war, not the peasants in the South.