Thom wrote:
>
> On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 15:09:15 GMT, "Ted Gittinger"
> wrote:
>
> >
> >"Admin" wrote in message
> >news:1012mk9kd42gr25@corp.supernews.com...
> >>
> >> "Lone Haranguer" wrote in message
> >> news:burh8i$ldrev$1@ID-192430.news.uni-berlin.de...
> >> > Thom wrote:
> >> >
> >> > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:02:46 GMT, Richard Rongstad
> >> > > wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > >>"unknown" the lumpenproletariat tool of the politburo wrote:
> >> > >>
> >> > >>>>>>.
> >> > >>>
> >> > >>>Meanwhile Kerry was pissing on his Vietnam buddies while fawning over
> >> > >>>his hero JFK who started the Vietnam War.
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > Nope, big lie just like WOMD. Ike and Nixon started the Viet Nam War
> >> > > in the 50's. I suggest you check your bible and see how naughty you
> >> > > are for lieing.
> >> >
> >> > Advisers were already there under Truman and we were helping the French.
> >> > Dummy.
> >>
> >> I wonder if it is prudent to remind everyone about the South East Aisian
> >> Treaty Organization that the US was signatory to. Australia was on it as
> >> well, so was Korea, and many others. You will find that many of us served
> >> side by side regardless of Nationality. SEATO was what got us in there
> >and
> >> that was done under Truman. SEATO was directly equivelant to NATO for the
> >> exact same reasons. SEATO is no more these days. Stalin won that round.
> >
> >The SEATO treaty was signed in the summer of 1954, more than a year and a
> >half after Truman left office. It was created by the State Department under
> >Secretary John Foster Dulles.
> >
> >SEATO was not "directly equivalent to NATO." NATO included automatic
> >trip-wire clauses that guaranteed that the signatories would go to war if
> >any of the signatories were attacked. SEATO lacked such language.
> >
> >Stalin? Stalin died in 1953. I doubt that he had a hand in the game.
>
> shouldn't have said that. The republicans still think he'se hiding
> under their beds.

You forgot to mention Thom, that Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Lenin
have taken up residence in the closets of Democratic Party
members.


> THOM
> >
> >ted
> >
> >