On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 23:08:53 -0500, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:

"Gus" wrote in message
roups.com...

Ed Huntress wrote:
'Too bad we didn't win. Then Vietnam could have been democratic and no
more
Americans would have been killed...just like Iraq.

Furthermore, the commies wouldn't have swept SE Asia, Australia, and
Japan,
and then wound up putting us in a pincer with the USSR on the other
side.

If we'd only listened to you guys, we wouldn't be speaking Russian
today.

Who are "you guys"? Wasn't it the Democrats who got us into Vietnam?

Yeah, Democrats were in power at the time, but I don't recall conservatives
objecting to the war. Do you remember any?

actually..yes .

And it's ironic that it's the conservatives today who blame the liberals for
losing the war. The conservatives are ****ed off we lost, but they usually
turn silent when someone asks what it was they thought they would have won.

Ask me.

And do the anti-war folks take any credit for the Millions of people
killed in Vietnam and Cambodia after we left?

About the same as the credit the conservatives take for the 3-1/2 million
who got killed because we were there.

?????


Gunner

The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose
and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

In the past few decades, a peculiar and distinctive psychology
has emerged in England. Gone are the civility, sturdy independence,
and admirable stoicism that carried the English through the war years
.. It has been replaced by a constant whine of excuses, complaints,
and special pleading. The collapse of the British character has been
as swift and complete as the collapse of British power.

Theodore Dalrymple,