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These liberals fondly remember the Vietnam War because their anti-war hysteria at home helped lose that war for us.

Anti-war protests in America were a major source of moral support to the enemy.

We know that not only from plain common sense but also from the statements of former North Vietnamese military leaders who evidently didn’t get the memo telling them to lie.

In an August 3, 1995, interview in the Wall Street Journal , Bui Tin, a former colonel in the North Vietnamese Army, called the American Peace movement “essential” to the North Vietnamese victory.

“Every day’” he said, “our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at 09:00 A.M. to follow the growth of the American anti-war movement.”

And he named names: “Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark and ministers gave us confidence that we should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses.”

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Nowadays falsehood stands erect and truth lies prostrate on the ground.

The street protests against the war have all been dismal, abject failures. Now they are going electronic, their web campaign has been laughable. In the blogsphere big money donations just don’t have the effect that they do in TV and political campaigns. Now they will falsify a bunch of “service men” against the war and claim the majority of US military members are against the war. While at the same time ignoring the actual majority of soldiers, airmen and sailors who want to continue the war on terrorism.

They are overlooking a small problem with their strategy, Military Blogs and their attendant Military Family Blogs. Leftards have, and continue to, tried to shut down milbloggers, with very little success. What they did acomplish was to shutdown anti-war milblogs, those being the idiots that keep breaking the regulations regarding blogging by active duty personnel.

Now they are attempting an end run around their own screw up, and it will also fail.

Una Salus Victus Nullam Sperare Salutem

Liberals didn’t lose the Vietnam War.
It was lost on the battlefield.
(That is a fact).

Anytime you start a war based on lies and hubris, you should lose.
(That is my opinion).

Robert:

Liberals didn’t lose the Vietnam War.
It was lost on the battlefield.
(That is a fact).

Actually, it’s not.  Not even close.  You really need to learn a little history before you spout nonsense like this.  For example, the Tet offense was militarily a complete rout of the Viet Cong (something like 95% of them were casualties) and they ceased from that point to be a military threat.

The reality is that the war was fought to a STALEMATE, which frankly was the best we could have hoped for, given the limitations our military had imposed on them.  The Democrats converted this stalemate ("Koreanization of Vietnam” as it was called) into a defeat by withdrawing further funding for US operations there in December 1974.

Without US air support, which was all we were providing by that point, the South Vietnamese were no match for the North Vietnamese, and were then defeated using traditional tank warfare.

Of course, anybody who gives a shit about facts would know this.

Anytime you start a war based on lies and hubris, you should lose

Perhaps true, but given your grasp of the facts, I wouldn’t personally rely on you to discriminate between the truth, lies and hubris.