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The Vietnam War – Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
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i***@gmail.com
2017-09-16 00:06:50 UTC
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Is true that, probably in the '40s, a US medical team parachuted in to Viet-Nam to treat an ailing Ho Chi Minh?

My position has always been that it was a civil war, after the French were kicked out, in which no outsider had any business.

I don't remember when the following came to my attention but it was probably during the Kennedy Administration:
"… I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh …" — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I was, and am still, appalled by the Hitlerist (was he named Nu?) who murdered his predecessor to take power in Saigon was supported by the USA.

I was too young to be killed in Korea and too old to die in Viet-Nam.

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Marcus
2017-09-16 14:48:36 UTC
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Post by i***@gmail.com
Is true that, probably in the '40s, a US medical team parachuted in to Viet-Nam to treat an ailing Ho Chi Minh?
My position has always been that it was a civil war, after the French were kicked out, in which no outsider had any business.
"… I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh …" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was, and am still, appalled by the Hitlerist (was he named Nu?) who murdered his predecessor to take power in Saigon was supported by the USA.
I was too young to be killed in Korea and too old to die in Viet-Nam.
http://IClast.net/
A war that never should have been. A Civil War. The French knew when to get out, and the USA was too stupid to not understand that.
Marcus
2017-09-16 18:13:45 UTC
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Post by i***@gmail.com
Is true that, probably in the '40s, a US medical team parachuted in to Viet-Nam to treat an ailing Ho Chi Minh?
My position has always been that it was a civil war, after the French were kicked out, in which no outsider had any business.
"… I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh …" — Dwight D. Eisenhower
I was, and am still, appalled by the Hitlerist (was he named Nu?) who murdered his predecessor to take power in Saigon was supported by the USA.
I was too young to be killed in Korea and too old to die in Viet-Nam.
http://IClast.net/
Will this documentary be honest or just the regular whitewash?

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