Fifty Years After Saigon: Remembering the Nobility of a Betrayed Cause

[AZrailwhale]

Bollocks!! that just makes you feel better, are you telling me Vietnam wasn't part of the French colonial Empire just like Algeria and many others?

South Vietnam (RVN) was an independent country just like North Vietnam (DRVN) was. Both had seats in the UN. Both were internationally recognized as independent states. So it WAS an invasion by a foreign country.

 

[Deadstick]

South Vietnam (RVN) was an independent country just like North Vietnam (DRVN) was. Both had seats in the UN. Both were internationally recognized as independent states. So it WAS an invasion by a foreign country.

South Vietnam never had a seat at the UN and North Vietnam didn't, the dividing of the Country was only a temporary measure as laid down in the Geneva UN conference until a referendum/Election was held to decide on the unification of the Country, the South and the Americans refused to take part because they knew they would have lost, so don't try and bullshit me with your lies.

 

[Juan de Fuca]

It was LBJ's war but they still manage to blame Nixon

Nixon was responsible for the war the longest and his betrayal involving the Paris Peace Accords, left him with an ignoble and shameful history.

"The treason came in 1968 as the Vietnam War reached a critical turning point. President Lyndon Johnson was desperate for a truce between North and South Vietnam." Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit" to stop potential leaks of information that might damage him, including documentation he believed was held by the Brookings Institute, a liberal think tank. The Plumbers' later break-in at the Democratic National Committee led to the Watergate scandal that brought Nixon down. Nixon's sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks was confirmed by transcripts of FBI wiretaps. On November 2, 1968, LBJ received an FBI report saying Chernnault told the South Vietnamese ambassador that "she had received a message from her boss: saying the Vietnamese should "hold on, we are gonna win." As Will confirms, Vietnamese did "hold on," the war proceeded and Nixon did win, changing forever the face of American politics----with the shadow of treason permanently embedded in its DNA. ..
"In the four years between the sabotage and what Kissinger termed "peace at hand" just prior to the 1972 election, more than 20,000 US troops died in Vietnam. More than 100,000 were wounded. More than a million Vietnamese were killed."

George Will confirms Nixon's Vietnam treason

The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a 'conspiracy theory' by Republican conservatives. Now it has been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist George Will.

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