Suspected GOP LTTE mass mailing [View All]

First some Lt.Col. writes to my local paper, the Joliet Herald.....


http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/opinions/letters/j19homecol.htm


This is still used successfully. Vietnam was one of the few times American counter-terrorism tactics failed. Or did they? Actually, they didn't. By the early 1970s, the communist rebels in South Vietnam were crushed. What people forget was that South Vietnam fell to a conventional invasion from the north in 1975.

The Baath Party and al-Qaida have no neighbor with an army ready to come in and rescue them. This time around, American troops have better tools to collect information, identify the terrorists and quickly carry out raids. The terrorists had big advantages in that they were Iraqi and the Iraqi population knew very well what the Baath thugs were capable of.

Then I do a google search and find......

http://www.strategypage.com/dls/articles/200412301.asp

Vietnam was one of the few times American counter-terrorism tactics failed. Or did they? Actually, they didn't. By the early 1970s, the communist rebels in South Vietnam were crushed. What people forget was that South Vietnam fell to a conventional invasion from the north in 1975. The Baath Party and al Qaeda have no neighbor with an army ready to come in and rescue them.


The Lt.Col. is certainly fond of plagiarism and/or is too stupid to put into writing just how wonderful a job his president is doing in Iraq. Write the herald and let them know that they've been duped into working for the White House propaganda department.