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From Uncle Sam, on Thu, 24 Jan 2002 06:05:41 GMT (in response to: Jane Fonda Yet Again)

Talking about brains, does anyone know why we went to Vietnam?  To prevent the spread of Communism.  Why was the U.N. not just the U.S. worried about this?  Well lets take a review in the years before Vietnam, all the way back to the end of World War 2.  At the end of the war when Russia, and the U.S. met in Germany.  Russia wanted to plan Germany's new government, and the Allies didn't want it to be a communist country.  So therefore Germany split into East (Communist) and West (Democratic).  The Russians took over many small countries along its western border and gave them a communist government.  Well also at the end of the War China was taken over by the communist party.  That means the biggest, most populated countries in the world, about 2/3rds had just turned communist.  
What is so bad about communist?  Well Communism is the belief that everyone should be equal.  That doesn't sound so bad till you are working with a man with an IQ of 90, and you have one of 110, you work harder than him, but your both getting the same pay.  You never advance in your job, the government wont change this, because your equal.  The U.S. on the other hand is a Democracy, you get tochoose how you live your life, and you can as you are exercising your rights by bad mouthing what we did in Vietnam.  Do you want to live in a communist nation?  Well I can tell you one thing you wouldent get by bad mouthing its government, you would be locked up in jail, and possibly killed. Now communism works so well that in a little over 40 years it collapsed in many countries, and only really exist in Vietnam, North Korea, and China.  Which tells me it really doesn't work all that well.  Also note what form of goventment these countries changed to...    
Now the U.N. sent men over to Vietnam so all of Aisa wouldent turn into communist, and pose a thret to our way of life. But wait didn't we do this just a little over 10 years earlier in Korea?  Yes we did, but I didn't hear anybody complaining when we did this then.  I guess some of us just got a little hippie pot in us, and thought we knew more than the government.  
The men sent over to Vietnam didn't want to be heroes they just wanted to do what men have done in every war previous to defend there country.  These men did this in honor, and some gave the ultimate sacrafice of there life.  Badmouthing what we did is saying that those lives lost were for nohting, but they were for a great cause, the good ol U.S.A. and its beliefs, so you can sit here today and badmouth it, because it is in the Constitution.  These men died so you could badmouth them what a shame.  I know I'm one with great Nationalism, and I am grateful for these men and women.  I for one am proud to be an American.

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