Night-Gaunt49: When gas was used in the underground fortifications in Vietnam, the US government publicly stated it was permitted because we never signed the Conventions. A lie on both counts.
swr: We were there because Eisenhower thought it would be an easy way to pick up a piece of the decaying French Empire and Texico and Royal Dutch Shell were worried about their offshore oil leases. If Ike had permitted free elections (as we had guaranteed), a united Vietnam would have elected a former US Army captain named Ho Chi Mein and stopped any advance of their traditional enemy, China (already making guerilla trouble in Malaya). Your tunnel rat friends could have had a normal life without losing their friends to a nasty and needless war. Ironically, the oil companies that engineered the mess still have their offshore leases and they turned out to be not as productive as they hoped.
reatta45 about 10 years ago
have you not noticed… We have abandoned the Geneva Convention ever since we included torture in our standard military procedure.
StoicLion1973 about 10 years ago
I see the idiocracy has started early this morning.
hippogriff about 10 years ago
Night-Gaunt49: When gas was used in the underground fortifications in Vietnam, the US government publicly stated it was permitted because we never signed the Conventions. A lie on both counts.
hippogriff about 10 years ago
swr: We were there because Eisenhower thought it would be an easy way to pick up a piece of the decaying French Empire and Texico and Royal Dutch Shell were worried about their offshore oil leases. If Ike had permitted free elections (as we had guaranteed), a united Vietnam would have elected a former US Army captain named Ho Chi Mein and stopped any advance of their traditional enemy, China (already making guerilla trouble in Malaya). Your tunnel rat friends could have had a normal life without losing their friends to a nasty and needless war. Ironically, the oil companies that engineered the mess still have their offshore leases and they turned out to be not as productive as they hoped.