Re: Pres Bush Left His Unit to Avoid a Drug Test! A Repub

From: Dennis M. Hammes (scrawlmark_at_arvig.net)
Date: 09/26/04

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    Art wrote:
    >
    > Eric Chomko wrote:
    > [snip]
    > > : Because only YOU ever thought of it. We weren't ATTEMPTING to destroy
    > > : North Vietnam or it's army. We were attempting to keep it from invading
    > > : and enslaving the South.
    > >
    > > Total defensive posture was suppose to win the war? RIGHT THERE, you said
    > > that the war was unwinnable! Were we supposed to just stay until the NV
    > > got tired and stop sending troops? Have them go out of their way to come
    > > the very last time with white flags instead of arms? You "we really
    > > didn't lose in Vietnam" types are a sad joke...
    >
    > Arguing what I wrote is hardly going to advance the discussion, only
    > because you seem to not understand the facts of the case: We could only
    > fruitfully argue my characterization once you're more familiar with the
    > historical events.

    The first of which is that we did not /lose/, we were withdrawn by
    politicians who wanted to spend the money on bachelor's decrees for
    Democrat's babies.
      Which they did.
      Democrats with cameras fillumed the last company on the roof of
    the Embassy being surrounded by five divisions of NVA, the only
    ratio they were ever really comfortable with. So that it looked
    like a debacle after edit, but even there we didn't lose anybody to
    speak of and not even /that "battle"/. Which wasn't a battle. It
    was an armed taxi service severing diplomatic relations as ordered.
      The Marines have done about as good a job in every other case we
    were invited to leave the Embassy in like manner. 

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