Well we know what planet you are on, remember this,Jane Fonda went to see first hand the result of your terror bombing in Hanoi.
Umm, I guess you missed the news that Jane Fonda has repeatedly apologized for her Hanoi trip. Among other things, the North Vietnamese showed her damaged areas that had not actually been bombed in over a year. Hanoi was massively bombed for several months in Operations Linebacker I and Linebacker II, from May through October 1972 and then from 18-29 December 1972, yet fewer than 2,000 civilians were killed. All the targets were valid military targets. We should be proud that our efforts to minimize civilian casualties resulted in fewer than 2,000 civilian deaths in nearly seven months of intense bombing.
The South Vietnamese government was far more legitimate than the Hanoi regime.
Following the partition of Vietnam mandated by the 1954 Geneva Accords, South Vietnam held elections for a constituent assembly in March 1956. The assembly drew up a constitution and then sat as a national assembly until legislative elections under the new constitution were held in 1959. Three major parties that supported Ngo Dinh Diem won two-thirds of the seats in the 1956 elections, while opposition parties won one-third of the seats (Keith W. Taylor,
A History of the Vietnamese, Cambridge University Press, 2013, p. 562).
North Vietnam's tyrants declined to hold elections after the 1954 Geneva Accords partition. They did not hold legislative elections and did not hold constituent elections to draft a new constitution. No, Ho Chi Minh and his gang preferred to rely on the severely rigged legislative "elections" held eight years earlier in 1946. In the 1946 elections, the ballots were not secret but were marked in the presence of Communist "aides" who were "to help comrades who had difficulty in making out their ballots." In addition, to ensure Communist domination in the sham legislature, Ho Chi Minh and his thugs directed Communist partisans and Viet Minh members to run for seats without disclosing their affiliations, just in case the Communist "aides" at the polling stations failed to induce enough voters to give the Communists a decisive margin of victory.
In September 1959, South Vietnam held elections for the National Assembly. The election was open, was observed by numerous international observers and journalists, and had minimal manipulation. The pro-Diem parties lost 20 seats, going from 75 seats to 55 seats, while opposition parties gained 31 seats, going from 35 seats to 66 seats. Diem accepted the election results and opened the new legislature shortly before his death (
A History of the Vietnamese, p. 588).
This was unheard of in North Vietnam. There were no genuine opposition parties in the Hanoi regime. No politician or private citizen in North Vietnam dared to publicly criticize the regime because they knew they would soon be visited by the police or the military and either killed, or hauled off to prison, or severely fined, depending on the degree of their criticism. Similarly, no newspaper in North Vietnam would voice any criticism of the regime.
In contrast, numerous South Vietnamese newspapers stridently criticized Diem and subsequent government leaders. Similarly, opposition party leaders frequently voiced public criticism of policies of the South Vietnamese government.
South Vietnam was by no means a perfect democracy, but it was far more open, humane, and democratic than North Vietnam.
