Never claimed to be an expert, Dick

I never said I was, nor did I try to pass myself off as, an expert on Vietnam. All I ever tried to do by entering this discussion was provide some proportion to what I believe to be misdirected anger towards Jane Fonda (and to point out that some of the things being said about her actions while she was in Vietnam are patently false). You yourself refer to her as a "bitch" not once, not twice, but three times in two separate thread responses. Fine...you are entitled to be angry with her--her actions at a certain time in our history offended your sensibilities (kinda like the actions of our fighting men--and those who put them in Vietnam in the first place--may have offended her sensibilities at the time). How many of our young men, however, Dick, were forced or asked by Jane Fonda to kill or be killed? NONE--that's how many. And no, Dick, it doesn't take a PhD in calculus to do that math--ZERO.

And Dick, you're right: We pay Generals to fight the wars our elected officials start. But when Generals conspire to conceal high enemy troop estimates from their superiors in order to influence public opinion and political decision making processes in Washington, D.C., well Dick, that's playing politics--and a whole hell of a lot of our boys died because of that conspiracy. It was in the performance of his official duties as a general fighting a war that gives me cause to, as you put it, "malign" General Westmoreland. It was the fact that he knowingly told LIES, the result of which caused many of our boys to die NEEDLESSLY. Where's his apology to the fighting men of Vietnam? Where are all the demands for his head? Didn't his lies have a direct life-and-death impact on our boys in the fields of Vietnam?

Jane Fonda sat on a gun and made a few broadcasts urging American fighting men to put down their guns and think about what they were being ordered to do. Gen. William Westmoreland lied to his commander and chief about the enemy's troop strengths and the enemy's resolve and determination to resist the United States military action in their country. Whose actions had more severe consequences for the men in the fields? Furthermore, whose actions come closer to a textbook definition of treason? You're the expert, Dick, you tell me.

If you fought in Vietnam -- or lost friends and/or loved-ones over there, I truly feel for you. But to blame Jane Fonda--to call for her head for doing what she did (and for things she DIDN'T do), is rediculous. There are people who are responsible--truly responsible--for the suffering of Vietnam Vets and for the suffering of the families who lost their sons and brothers in that war--those would be the people whose lies resulted in their being there in the first place. That's just my "grossly ignorant" opinion, though.