do u agree with the vietman war. if so why or why not?
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Agree on the tactics that the US implemented in THe Viet war >no\n\nAgree on the overtaking of SAigon by VietCOng> No\n\nAgree on North Vietnam breaking the Geneva conventions > The VietCong Did and yes\n\nIm not sure. Your question is too open ended, try narrowing down the range for people to give more efficient answers
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i do not support this war....has this war acheived something...im sure many will counter by argument by saying that USA has toppled down a dictatorship and restore democracy,find out weapons of mass destruction....but where is the democracy...and see people dying every day in Iraq...As i always said USA masqueraded their other aims(for eg----for money,oil----influence...and a way to demonstrate his force) the opinions towards US is divided...some are afraid of US...bcuz of it being a superpower...while others prefer to back US still because it being a super power....see Japan,Mongolia,Australia and many European countries sending troops in Iraq  i dont like the either u are with us or against us policy....war in Iraq can never be justified...and also UN has not approved the invasion so US has no right to invade....UN security council is a toothless dog...i does nothing to preserve peace...\nbut this does not mean i support Sadaam's regime(discriminating Shites and killing Kurds, invasions...link with terrorist orgs..etc)...
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Which war ? Vietnam has been at war for one thousnad years .\n" Every generation of men, they grew up knowing they were going to be in a war. The country had a 1,000-year history of warfare — with the Chinese, with the Japanese during World War II, with the French. — You accepted that as a way of life."\n\n" America inherited from the Europeans a world replete with dictators\nEven Vietnam was nothing more than a nasty inheritance from the French "
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Vietnam war was a resource war. We wanted to control the tin, rubber, manganese , the still undeveloped off-shore oil and the largest rice growing region (Mekong Delta) in the world. We poisoned the Delta before we left with Agent Orange and today there are so many deformed births that they are just quietly put down. Vietnam war was a whore just like Iraq.
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YES I DO \nIN VIET-NAM I WAS SHOT THREE DAYS AFTER BEING BAPTIZED IN THE DON HA RIVER WHILE ON PATROL I WAS CARRYIN A SMALL TEST BIBLE IN MY FLAK JACKET THE BULLET WENT THROUGH TO THE LAST PAGE OF REV. \nWHAT DO YOU THINK
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I do not support the Iraqi war.  I DO support our troops who are over the fighting it the though.  After all, they're not the one who started it.  Bush did. However, I also believe that, even though we never should have gone to war (at least not when we did) that we need to stay and finish what we started.
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Yes it was a justified war.  There were two incompatible ways of life fighting for control of the Nation.  The non-slave states were resentful of southerners disproportionate control of government and constant push to enforce slave-holding rights in the North. Although the concept of freeing southern slaves was not considered  until the war was begun, the northern peoples vehemence in the belief that there should be no expansion of slavery was very much a cause of the war.\n\n The South believed it had a superior economy and culture and feared that the Northern states would damage or destroy that life.\nThe Nation became Industrialized and Free of Slavery.\n\nIt also cemented the concept that the UNITED STATES was a single entity, and not a collection of States.
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Herbert Hoover was kind of a twit Mr. Enzyme. I fully agree with you on the George issue. This guy scares me, but his 'trigger man' Dickie boy is even scarier. Here are two fellas that talk about Iraq but never seem to put a human equation into any of their speech making. Two guys who 'conveniently' never served during Vietnam like you did.\nI have much more respect for your opinion on war than I do \nthose two characters. It pisses me off no end that the working class always send their kids off to be killed and wounded to fight a rich mans war. I have no disrespect for our men and women serving in Iraq, quite the opposite I have the utmost respect and honor for them. I support them 100%, however I can support them here at home where they belong. It's time to come home, let Iraq take care of Iraq. \n\n     I am sorry for the loss of your nephew, my heart bleeds when  tragedy like this is heard. My deepest sympathies to you and your family. I have faith that we as \nAmericans will come together on this issue very soon and demand our government put an end to this chaos.
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Cute_Blondie seems to have a pretty thorough answer there.  My question is do you mean the Vietnam War that the US fought in or is there another war called the Vietnamese War?
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no it is not justified..the only reson we ewnt to war in the first place was for oil. and i think everyone knows that. This is wat war is all about, thorughout history form ww1 war was about natural resources liek oil. defiantely not justified
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about wars, specifically the Vietnam war.
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I fought so that you have the right to belittle me.  Thanks!\n\nWithout solders there would be no USA.  A military gov. that does not like us would sweep in and take our freedoms.  Regardless of how peaceful we are.  The comment of No solders= no war is just plain wrong.  History is my proof.\n\nWhen I got back a group of Marines went out looking for someone to call us baby killers.  All we found was free drinks and easy chicks. Thanks to all the drink buyers and that group of ladies on their "chicks night out".  \n\nThere is no substitution for brute force when dealing with people that wouldn't listen to reason.  I support my brothers but not the war.  I do this by challenging my local gov. to do what is right and help my fellow Marines by being a KEY Volunteer.
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It might be best to hear both sides first before people begin comparing this to the 1968 My Lai massacre in Vietnam.\nIt sounds as though your mind has been made up before hearing from the soldiers who were there. Not saying it isn't possible but combat does bad things to good peoples minds.
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Vaguely, yes.  I'm not too old, nor too young.  I think what you are thinking about is not about the death toll, but rather how we stepped into jungle guerrilla warfare in Vietnam, totally unprepared for what was about to happen.  Then, we opened the jungle warfare school, and now we are awesome fighting in the jungle, but again the face of the enemy has changed and now we are fighting a bunch of terrorists, which like in Vietnam are difficult to differentiate between them and the civilian population.  We get burned in the press when we fight and burned when we don't, so it is a lose lose proposition and the soldiers are the ones with their back sides on the line.  The politicians? not so much.  Yes, we do have big guns, but if we blast the crap out of some building, inevitably, we kill someone unintended and it's a vicious press cycle.  The two "conflicts" are very different, but there are some vague similarities, that shouldn't be overlooked.  I hope one of the similarities doesn't turn out to be the length of time we stay there!
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I think only the person that spat on you can truly answer this question. But, maybe it was all of the liberal rhetoric floating through the campuses or the weed wafting through the air.\n\nThank the Viet Nam vets for not letting it happen again.\n\nThank you for your service and yur sacrifice!
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First of all,war was not declaired in Vietnam.We were the allies & were asked to help!\nSecond of all,no US president can declair war & send anyone to fight without the agreement of congress & all others involved.\nI bekieve that these folks bekieve like I do!The president was right,because if we sit back & take their BS,then they gain power over our will as well as our country.\nHow many of you will run & cower when we are threated again on our own soil?As for me,I will pick up my nearest gun,stick,nail gun,drill,basebal bat,or what ever I can get my hands on & start kicking butt until I die!
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What an excellent and well timed question, thank you.\n\nMost people believe that the start of the war was a response to North Vietnamese patrol boats firing on the US destroyer USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonkin in 1964.  This "attack" was the all the reason needed for the US to "respond" with bombing raids on North Vietnam.\n\nBut, and this is important, there was a report that came out a few days ago that basically states the North Vietnamese did NOT shoot at our destroyer and further the N. Vietnamese had no idea where our destroyer was!