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G_j Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-16-05 03:25 PM
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These people saying Vietnam could have been "won" are beyond the pale!
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In their desperate attempt to spread the "cut and run" BS, some history challenged idiots keep implying "victory" could have been possible in Vietnam. Really? How? Over three million deaths were not enough?
I suppose we could have just nuked everything and killed everybody.
Is that the kind of "victory" these homicidal maniacs are talking about??
:shrug:


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While most studies of the war in Southeast Asia acknowledge that 4 times the tonnage of bombs was dropped on Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos than that used by the US in all theaters of operation during World War II, only a few, such as James William Gibson's The Perfect War: Technowar in Vietnam, analyze the full extent of such bombing. Not only were thousands of villages in Vietnam totally destroyed, but massive civilian deaths, numbering close to 3 million, resulted in large part from such indiscriminate bombing. <snip>
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=6217

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Most estimates put American casualties at about 58,000
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