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Originally Posted by gekko
I don't feel they were thrown away, those are your words. As for the people whose lives were being "thrown away" according to you, 91% of Vietnam veterans are glad they served.
I respect those who served, I never said a thing about anyone else. I don't care much for LBJ, don't have any respect for draft dodgers, don't have any respect for war protesters, and don't have any respect for someone who think that a soldiers life is ever thrown away.
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91% said they were glad they served. Good point, THEY CAME BACK. I bet 53,000 or so families that lost children probably weren't so happy. Not to mention the fact that the entire time they've been in the military they've been conditioned not to question orders and to believe that they are doing what's best.
I really want to know who said I didn't respect those who served. I mourn those who died. The fact is, they didn't have to die. Their lives were wasted. They changed nothing. All soldiers who served deserve respect. With a few exceptions, all any protester wants is to get those people home as fast as possible so that fewer people die.
That war was fought because the stance on communism and the huge military build up needed to be justified.
So we went and rained explosives on people in the jungle, exposed our own troops to agent orange, sent men up in airplanes to be shot down by SAM missiles. We sent 53,000 people off to die, and killed a hell of a lot more on the other side.
And the justification for this was "stemming the tide of communism" yeah, that evil red tide. Evil when you're a millionaire and you're afraid that people who are starving might just want to take a little of that away so that they can live comfortably too, that's what communism is about right? Nobody starves.
But we have to fight that. We have to make sure that people are starving so that others can eat caviar and own mansions AND we have to make sure that those who are starving hate communism, and think that it's evil. So that they don't realize how badly they're being ****ed over by the smallest of minorities.
So yeah, 53,000 americans, and probably the low to mid six figures in Vietnamese.
But at least the rich don't lose any money.
Half a million or so people DEAD so that the upper 1% of americans can live without fear of revolution.
Good deal, good deal.