I was just wondering about the Vietnam War.

Freedom_from_Chains

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:49 PM
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I was just wondering about the Vietnam War.

Edited on Tue Jun-20-06 11:57 PM by Freedom_from_Chains

I remember the government keep saying that we had to go to Vietnam to prevent the spread of communism and protect American freedoms.

So, we went to Vietnam, gave up 50,000 of our young peoples lives, and eventually got sent packing with our tail between our legs. So now here it is 30 some years later, the North Vietnamese communist control all of Vietnam and I am still trying to figure out what freedoms we lost. As of date I cannot come up with one.

However, since BushCo has come to power the amount of rights and freedoms that the American people have lost and our losing continues to grow with each passing week. So it would seem that the score right now is.

Rights lost by Americans to:

BushCo To high to count
N. Vietnam 0

Wouldn't it make more sense to go to war with BushCo to protect American rights?

On Edit: Is it illegal to think that yet?

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WHEN CRABS ROAR

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:58 PM
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1. WAR NO LONGER

MAKES ANY SENSE TO ME.

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Freedom_from_Chains

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:06 AM
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4. War never has made sense to me

but apparently it does to millions of other people.

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BayCityProgressive

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Tue Jun-20-06 11:58 PM
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2. we didn't

lose any freedoms. Vietnemese sure did though. They lost the freedom to live in a nation without agent orange and land mines. They were blown back into the stone age for no reason at all.

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Erika

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:01 AM
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3. Amen n/t

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MnFats

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:21 AM
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6. wellll...Fred Hampton lost his rights. Four students at Kent State..

...More at Jackson state....along with untold numbers who fled to Canada or simply refused to fight, and those who were destroyed by the Nixon Administration's dirty tricks.
but maybe i'm splitting hairs...

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Monkeyman

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:12 AM
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5. I was In Nam

I am and was VVAW when I saw what was going on. I knew the War
was wrong so I stood with John Kerry in Washington and said no
more.I head a Veterans org. now fighting for Veterans and our
returning troops benefits but Bush has cut our health care to
the bone.Last year alone 600,000 veterans were cut off their
health care.Now the GAO has put out a report showing Bush used
phony numbers for his last four budgets. And now we find out
tat DOD is sending troops with PTSD back to Iraq on Meds like
Prozac. Ya right the Republican care for the Troops and
Veterans JUST A LIE AGAIN

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Erika

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:26 AM
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7. The republicans have never been friends of vets

There are so few of them who even fought in wars. It's not something they "normally do". They leave those unpleasantries to needy others.

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silvertip

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:31 AM
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8. Vietnam

     I was also in Vietnan and I agree that it was wrong and
what I see happening in this current war seems to me to be
just about the same thing. As for sending men back into combat
that are mentally ill that I consider to be a crime and it
should be treated as such, and they wonder why men lose
control and kill people.

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Webster Green

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Wed Jun-21-06 12:35 AM
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9. Ditto!

I returned from Vietnam in 1966, got arrested at the Pentagon demonstration ("Confront the Warmakers") in October 1967.

Welcome to DU!!:hi:

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newyawker99

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Wed Jun-21-06 01:05 PM
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10. Hi Monkeyman!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

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Solon

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Wed Jun-21-06 01:14 PM
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11. That's the disproven "Domino Effect" that we peddled to the world...

Actually, our entire foriegn policy after WW2 was predicated on that lie, to the sorrow of millions who lost their lives due to our actions.

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freesqueeze

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Wed Jun-21-06 02:04 PM
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12. I remember the DOMINO THEORY

We were almost overrun with Communists that were going to force us all to play Dominos.

eeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwww...

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