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| 2004-09-22 |
| EFL from Human Events - a magazine sited by John O'Neil during his debate with Kerry on the Dick Cavett Show. Simply put, if you want to learn if the domino theory was true--ask the dominoes. A few weeks ago, I did just that. I met with a group of Vietnamese refugees--past and present. Some were among the 1980s "Boat People," who fled the horror of Communist Vietnam on rafts, boats, and pieces of driftwood, risking their lives in the process. Others were more recent arrivals. All fled the purported utopia Vietnam was supposed to become according to Kerry and his anti-war colleagues. These people can attest to who is telling the truth--John Kerry and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, or John O'Neill, B.G. Burkett, author of Stolen Valor, Carlton Sherwood, former Pulitzer journalist and producer of the documentary Stolen Honor, and the Vietnam Veterans for Truth. These people will tell you who was telling the truth. Quyen V. Ngo currently works for a local college. He was a boat person rescued by an American merchant ship after three nights at sea. Fifty-nine years old, Quyen was a schoolteacher in Vietnam and a Captain in the South Vietnamese army (ARVN). He was born in Nam Dimh near Haiphong before the country was partitioned. Before the partitioning, his parents emigrated in 1953 to South Vietnam to escape the Communists. When I asked him if he thought the war was worth it, Ngo said that American troops did not have to stay as long as they did. The Vietnamese people just wanted to be trained and supplied. They would do the rest. However, the Americans were trying to protect the people from the Communists and that was a good thing. |
| Posted by:Super Hose |
| #9 All fled the purported utopia Vietnam was supposed to become according to Kerry and his anti-war colleagues. These people can attest to who is telling the truth -- ... Kerry said Vietnam would become a utopia? We should ask Vietnam refugees whether Kerry was right when he said Vietnam would become a utopia? We should ask Vietnam refugees whether Kerry was right when he said US troops systematically committed atrocities? Do these Vietnam refugees really know what Kerry said? . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-23 8:36:43 AM |
| #8 Mr. Ngo's opinion about Kerry's statements and actions is decisive! And it's also recorded in the article as his opinion. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-09-23 2:23:23 AM |
| #7 Kerry's contention was that atrocities were committed systematically by the Americans in Viet Nam, and with the connivance of the entire chain of command. Do you actually believe that our civilization would breed men capable of that less than a generation after the liberation of Auschwitz and Dachau? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-23 1:01:47 AM |
| #6 Mike, the key word in Ngo's statement is "systematically". Nothing he or any of the others said implies that absolutely no war crimes were committed. Rather, what atrocities there were, were the actions of individuals or groups crossing the line. I've read statistics that the level of unacceptable actions by American troops was lower during the Viet Nam war than in any war previous. No doubt one of our experts can tell us if I understood correctly, and give comparitive numbers. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-23 12:58:04 AM |
| #5 He said he did not believe a thing Kerry said about American troops, systematically committing war crimes. He thinks Kerry fabricated this. Mr. Ngo's opinion about Kerry's statements and actions is decisive! . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-22 11:35:47 PM |
| #4 That proves that the Mai Lai massacre never happened. A lot of history books will have to be rewritten based on this article. It means that Ngo didn't witness or hear of any atrocities. No more, no less. You have done what you accuse others of, Mr. Sylwester. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2004-09-22 11:03:32 PM |
| #3 he did not believe a thing Kerry said about American troops, systematically committing war crimes. C'mon Mike, you are smarter than that! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2004-09-22 2:11:04 PM |
| #2 My Lai was anecdotal and not policy. Being a (former?) air force officer you should know better. |
| Posted by: badanov 2004-09-22 7:45:37 AM |
| #1 Ngo never witnessed any atrocities by American soldiers, neither did he hear of any American atrocities. That proves that the Mai Lai massacre never happened. A lot of history books will have to be rewritten based on this article. . |
| Posted by: Mike Sylwester 2004-09-22 7:37:25 AM |