The only accurate statement is that America's BOMBING of Vietnam and Cambodia cost millions of lives.
2007-03-29 18:52:51 · 17 answers · asked by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
There is only one reason why the conservatives would make such a BIG, FAT LIE as that...it makes a good sound bite and it makes all the slow people in the "heartland of America" get all agitated and start jumping up and down and squawking.
2007-03-30 04:46:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some would argue, and with fair certainty, that the communists who won that conflict did great harm to the survivors of South Vietnam and Cambodia who had no means of leaving their homelands.
Did you see the motion picture "The Killing Fields"? Cambodia became hell for those who supported the US.
While there are no firm numbers, the human rights violations practiced by the victors were cruel and did cost many innocent lives.
2007-03-30 02:00:43 · answer #2 · answered by Floyd G 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Because it did!! The 'liberals' would agree too.
'you' - You're actually suggesting that the USA should have stayed in Vietnam???
Egads - we've got a 'beaut' here!
The USA got out of Vietnam for the same reasons that they should get out of Iraq, only in Vietnam, over 50,000 lives were lost(American) for nothing!!(not to speak poorly of the poor souls who still live with 'visible' and traumatic wounds and those who will never be the same again!!). G**Z. What planet are you from??
'bret' - that's not gonna happen and you know it! Get off W's propaganda wagon and face facts. These 'terrorists' will never again get the chance to do a "WTC". Had they the will and the means, they would have done it by now! G**Z you're gullible. Matter-of-fact, so are the repubs - they let this 'joke' happen!!(Iraq, that is). The 'blood', if the remote possibility ever happens, will be on Bush's hands. He started the thing, already!
'oh broth...' - I DO respect the fact that you 'served' and no doubt honorably!! Now let's break down what you have said - the N. Vietnamese were on the verge of being defeated?? If that were true, then the USA would have stayed - no?? I cannot question your right to state what you have as you were actually there(I'm 62-Canadian - hold it against me if you will), but with 58,000 already dead and the potential that 'winning' was 'at hand' - I think not - that's logical. I'm sorry to try to 'burst your bubble', but if you can convince 'pundits' of all stripes that you are right - please do - myself included.
2007-03-30 01:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 4⤋
well IF the US had widened the war and prevented the Cambodian genocide, then yes...but China was already involved and this would have spread the tensions and become a regional war, which would have caused millions of deaths as well....amazingly, the N. Vietnamese were against the regime in Cambodia, so i guess it wouldn't be true at all..unless these people didn't ever read a book past page 2
2007-03-30 02:06:34 · answer #4 · answered by Ford Prefect 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well, if we had won they would not have suffered under communism, many Vietnamese died. ( And I do not mean by us)
Also if we had won Pol Pot probably would not have taken over Cambodia thus beginning the killing fields. He was one of the worst dictators ever and a decisive victory for the Americans in Vietnam would have never let him do what he did in the same neighborhood.
2007-03-30 01:58:08 · answer #5 · answered by inzaratha 6 · 8⤊ 3⤋
Because the defunding and withdrawal of American troops allowed the V.C. and the N.V.A.,PolPot and the Shinning Path to over run the countries and wholesale slaughter any they deemed an enemy of their state. Thus the Killing Fields, the torture chambers that are now memorials with hundreds of thousands of skulls. We never lost a battle in Viet Nam. I served two tours. The Democrat Congress stopped funding the troops when we were on the verge of defeating the North. They are about to do the same in Iraq and have not learned from history.
2007-03-30 02:02:58 · answer #6 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 6⤊ 4⤋
First of all, the US was not "defeated" in Vietnam. I seriously doubt you are old enough to even have been around during the Vietnam War, and probably couldn't find it on a map. The US government decided to withdrawl from Vietnam, that in no way reflects a defeat.
Secondly, the US casualty count during the war was approximately 58,000.
And finally.......... if Communism was to be kept in check, then it took "BOMBING" to do it. And if it cost millions of lives, as you say, then perhaps you need to blame the N. Vietnamese government for subjecting their citizens to that. They had options at the negotiation table, but they refused to compromise and make peace. So the blood of all involved in that war is on them.
Learn your history before you write such absurd no-fact nonsense.
2007-03-30 02:00:26 · answer #7 · answered by C J 6 · 8⤊ 5⤋
Why did Secretary of State Macnamara (a democrat), recently confess that he intentionally misinformed the American public and caused the death of untold thousands of civilians and military in Vietnam.
2007-03-30 02:07:20 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 2⤋
Maybe coz IT DID!!!!!! When we left the Communist killed everyone that supported South Vietnam government
2007-03-30 02:54:05 · answer #9 · answered by Boston Mark 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
I bet you were one of the people standing at the fence spitting on our troops and calling them baby killers when they came back home.
Maybe we we need our own killing field round up all of the liberals and send them their.
When I see our own people burning our flag and a effigy of one of our soldiers I just can't help but wish the very worst for them.
2007-03-30 02:19:28 · answer #10 · answered by ULTRA150 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋