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Originally posted by SBA
You're right , Scooter , the Vietnam War was "fascinating stuff" , especially for us dudes that was around in WWII . Unlike WWII, there was never any moment on the VN battlefield scene where we didn't think we were winning , and right now or shortly . Even in the Tet Offensive 1968 , when the enemy swarmed from nowhere to shooting up all over in a few days , did we doubt we were gonna whupazz win , and we did. :D But, the problem, as I've outlined before, was there was NOBODY who knew WTF they were doing , or why, back in Washington . As a research project-in-action, commencing shortly after I arrived in Vietam in 1966, I followed the course of the Vietnam "Involvement" through the eyes of the Los Angles Times - from the initial gung-ho "Go get 'em" John Wayne "Ballad Of The Green Berets" era, to the fall of Saigon and the US departure off the Embassy Roof.
LBJ suckered the USA into the Vietnam War with lies - the "Gulf Of Tonkin" attack that never happened, and squandered American lives and $billions on a war with NOTHING to win , just like GW Bush did with his "WMDs" and the resulting Iraqi fiasco.
But :shrug: enough of the politics part , as far as wars go, you couldn'ta got a better place to have a war than Vietnam . No snow , no burning deserts, no religious suicide fanatics, just a pleasant bountiful countryside with great beaches and plenty of wine (or Bier 33 :D ) women and song. :cool: Even Ol' JohnQ :p: admits he had a goods time there.
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