We did. It was called "The Christmas bombing of 1972"...brought their
asses to the peace table mighty quick...so quick that they signed the
Paris Peace Accords less than 4 weeks later... Jan.27,1973. Problem is
Hanoi broke the peace treaty after we pulled our combat troops out and
we did nothing to enforce the treaty.

If Goldwater had been elected instead of "If you elect me President,
no American boy will set foot on Asian soil", we would have gone
down-town Hanoi the first week he took office and there wouldn't be a
Wall with over 58,000 names on it. But Goldwater made the big mistake
of telling people something they didn't want to hear...that we were in
a war already...and the left-wing media painted him as a mad-man who
would start a nuke war with China because he said if he was elected he
would end the war quickly.

We didn't use no nukes in the '72 Christmas bombing and we didn't see
no billion screaming Chinese coming to Hanoi's aid either.

Donna LOng

"Doug Bovinet" wrote in message news:...
> "Horvath" wrote in message
> news:t05u0092d1bokkqoblhri0j5ftqmmi2tql@4ax.com...
> > On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 23:03:55 -0600, "unknown"
> > wrote this crap:
> >
> > >>>>.
> > >Meanwhile Kerry was pissing on his Vietnam buddies while fawning over
> > >his hero JFK who started the Vietnam War.
> > >>>>>
> I am writing only to correct your inaccurate history. JFK did not start
> the Vietnam War. The French sided with the South vietnamese fighting
> against North Vietnam for seven years before realizing the mistake they had
> made getting involved there. After the French pulled out, President
> Eisenhower sent 3,000 military advisors to South vietnam to help them build
> an army. Before he left office, Eisenhower make a speech at the Defense
> Department in which he warned, "Beware of the military-industrial complex,
> and do not get involved in a land war in Asia." That speech is set in
> bronze placques and appear at the entrtance of the Defense Department --
> with these warnings omitted. Anti-Communist sentiment in the U.S. was
> running high when JFK became president, and grew in intenisity after the
> Iron Curtain went up. To help the South vietnamese keep the northern
> Communist invaders from taking over their country, JFK sent additional
> troops to South vietnam. However, the real build-up came under Lyndon
> Johnson. He expanded our forces over there from about 10,000 to around
> 250,000.
>
> > >
> > >I say some of Vietnam War vets in here should be thankful because of
> kerry
> > >action by vigourly protest in DC that helped end the war. If the war
> would
> > >drag for another decade, tens of thousands of Vietnam vets would have
> fallen
> > >in foreign soil, many of vietnam folks we are chatting right now would
> have
> > >been long gone. The war was not only bankupt us, it was totally immoral.
> > >It took away American pride of its history. It took away american
> > >democratic principles. It was absolutely could not be won.
> > >
> >
> > Sure it could have. All we had to do is invade North Vietnam.
> >
> >
> > Horvath@Horvath.net
> >
> > This signature is now the ultimate power in the universe