Kurt Lochner
2014-08-24 01:14:56 UTC
http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/08/dangerous_times_isis_the_end_of_denial.html
"The Vietnam War was won by American forces in the field,together with South Vietnamese, but it was lost in the media."
Not so, your thesis statement is a fallacy, an utter lie!
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/08/12/george-will-confirms-nixons-vietnam-treason
George Will Confirms Nixon's Vietnam Treason
by
Bob Fitrakis, Harvey Wasserman
"The new release of extended versions of Nixon's papers now
confirms this long-standing belief, usually dismissed as a
"conspiracy theory" by Republican conservatives. Now it has
been substantiated by none other than right-wing columnist
George Will.
Nixon's newly revealed records show for certain that in 1968,
as a presidential candidate, he ordered Anna Chennault, his
liaison to the South Vietnam government, to persuade them
refuse a cease-fire being brokered by President Lyndon Johnson.
Nixon's interference with these negotiations violated President
John Adams's 1797 Logan Act, banning private citizens from
intruding into official government negotiations with a foreign
nation.
Published as the 40th Anniversary of Nixon's resignation
approaches, Will's column confirms that Nixon feared public
disclosure of his role in sabotaging the 1968 Vietnam
peace talks. Will says Nixon established a "plumbers unit"
to stop potential leaks of information that might damage him,
including documentation he believed was held by the Brookings
Institute, a liberal think tank. The Plumbers' later break-in
at the Democratic National Committee led to the Watergate scandal
that brought Nixon down.
Nixon's sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks was confirmed by
transcripts of FBI wiretaps. On November 2, 1968, LBJ received
an FBI report saying Chernnault told the South Vietnamese
ambassador that "she had received a message from her boss:
saying the Vietnamese should "hold on, we are gonna win."
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"The capacity of the human mind for swallowing
nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and
repressive action has never yet been plumbed."
- Robert A. Heinlein
"The capacity of the human mind for swallowing
nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and
repressive action has never yet been plumbed."
- Robert A. Heinlein