Thanks to shit like this, the stupid idea that we should "play nice" with the enemy during time of war, and the resulting rules of engagement where the military's hands are tied behind their backs---in other words THANKS TO LIBERALS---the USA will NEVER win another war again!!!

 

I have never talked or corresponded with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting, possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist Ho Chi Minh as their leader.

Source: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mandate for Change, 1953-56 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Compnay, Inc., 1963), p. 372

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All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

This immortal statement was made in the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America in 1776.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5139/

- "Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam," by Ho Chi Minh

 

So Ho Chi Minh was a patriot and advocate of freedom in the mold of our Founders in your mind?

The Socialist Sanders honeymooned in the former Soviet Union.

I knew all along that there isn't a dimes worth of difference between a Socialist and a Communist.

 

There is not a dimes worth of difference, they are both the same in face value, both a forms of State Control.

While Socialism is being practiced in the U.S., it is leaving the backdoor open to allow Communism to sneak right up this nations ass.

 

A mark of intelligence is the ability to make distinctions.

What matters about Ho Chi Minh is that he had the support of the vast majority of the Vietnamese people.

What matters about Vietnam is that the country was and is unimportant to U.S. security and the American economy.

What matters about the War in Vietnam is that the United States devastated Vietnam in order to prevent the ascension of a leader as many as 80 percent of the Vietnamese people wanted.

What matters about John Kerry is that after risking his life fighting in that war, as George the Lesser and Dick Chaney did not, he had the courage and the integrity to point out what the war was about.

 

What Bernie Sanders desires is Scandinavian Social Democracy. There is not chance that any of the Scandinavian countries will "go Communist." Historically Communism has been a reaction against right wing authoritarian governments.

 

Does the voting populace want a Scandinavian style Social Democracy within our governing structure?

 

The Final Declaration of The Geneva Conference:
On Restoring Peace in Indochina, July 21, 1954

Final declaration, dated July 21, 1954, of the Geneva Conference on the problem of restoring peace in Indochina, in which the representatives of Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam, France, Laos, the People's Republic of China, the State of Viet-Nam, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America took part...

4. The Conference takes note of the clauses in the agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Viet-Nam prohibiting the introduction into Viet Nam of foreign troops and military personnel as well as of all kinds of arms and munitions...

6. The Conference recognizes that the essential purpose of the agreement relating to Viet-Nam is to settle military questions with a view to ending hostilities and that the military demarcation line should not in any way be interpreted as constituting a political or territorial boundary...

7. The Conference declares that, so far as Viet-Nam is concerned, the settlement of political problems, effected on the basis of respect for the principles of independence, unity, and territorial integrity, shall permit the Vietnamese people to enjoy the fundamental freedoms, guaranteed by democratic institutions established as a result of free general elections by secret ballot.

In order to insure that sufficient progress in the restoration of peace has been made, and that all the necessary conditions obtain for free expression of the national will, general elections shall be held in July 1956, under the supervision of an international commission composed of representatives of the member states of the International Supervisory Commission referred to in the agreement on the cessation of hostilities.

Source:

from The Department of State Bulletin, XXXI, No. 788 (August 2, 1954), p. 164.
http://legacy.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1954-geneva-indochina.html

 

DL is at it again, not only derailing, but bringing ancient documents to the table, when discussing a specific situation which has occurred in a dynamic, fast changing world.

 

Republican politicians tend to be chicken hawks who favor more military spending at the same time that they favor tax cuts and balanced budgets.