we finally left Vietnam after 14 years (PHOTOS of exit strategy)

[diamond14]

today, with bush* follies going on for a third year in Afganistan, and a second year in Iraq...wouldn't it be cheaper, with less lives lost to just LEAVE NOW...dragging out bush* follies for the next 14 years will only result in the following 'exit strategy', as proven in Vietnam...let's leave NOW....Iraq is just Vietnam regurgitated...


the 'exit' from Vietnam...with dignity and honor, and assuring freedom for the Vietnamese, and human rights and their own government....here it is, folks....something to look forward to in Iraq and Afganistan....


An American punches a man in the face as he tries to close the doorway of an airplane overloaded with refugees seeking to flee Nha Trang, which was being taken over by Communist troops in April 1975.


Evacuees are helped aboard an Air America helicopter perched atop a Saigon building on April 29, 1975. The evacuation site was one of many from which Americans and foreign nationals were evacuated to waiting Navy ships.


Mobs of Vietnamese scale the 14-foot wall of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon trying to get to the helicopter pickup zone.


Xuan Loc, South Vietnam. On April 14, 1975, refugees hang on for dear life as they attempt to board a giant Chinook helicopter taking off some 38 miles northeast of Saigon.


U.S. Marines debarked as evacuees loaded into the "Jolly Green Giant" at the U.S. Embassy on April 29, 1975, initiating the final stage of evacuation from Saigon, Vietnam.


Americans and other evacuees arrive aboard a U.S. Navy ship after being airlifted out of Saigon by a U.S. Marine helicopter on April 29, 1975.


North Vietnamese troops run across the tarmac of Tan Son Nhat air base in Saigon as smoke billows behind abandoned U.S. Air Force transport planes on April 30, 1975.

[Beam Me Up]

1. I remember all that so vividly.

God, why did we wait SO LONG? Why the hell did we go in there in the first fuck'n place? Why did we WASTE the lives of so MANY people? WHY THE HELL ARE WE DOING IT AGAIN?!!

[Andy_Stephenson]

2. Because a bi-partisan group of

Democrats and Republicans voted to give Bush carte blanche...

[diamond14]

4. we're doing it again for the war-profiteers....and because the

young people will not vote, and are cheering on bush*....the potential draftees could stop this in a second, but they don't want to....


"I think what all of this means is that we each have to do our own part, and become responsible, civic-minded citizens: we have to realize that we won't be happy unless we try to do our part. And if a small portion of us simply do our part, that will be enough. If even 1 percent of the people of this country could break out of the invisible chains, they could bring down this military-industrial complex - this tyranny of corporations, this plutocracy - overnight. That's all it would take: 1 percent of the people." Ramsey Clarke



http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html

[Jacobin]

3. It won't be as easy to evacuate IraqNam

Vietnam is a narrow country next to the Gulf of Tonkin (?).

It'll be next to impossible to helicopter out the last stragglers from IraqNam.

I hope Kerry has a good exit strategy for the last Murkins in IraqNam.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. They called it "Peace with honor".

1984ish considering that it was the least "honorable" war that America ever fought.

[DrWeird]

6. Well, then I guess we'll have to wait for more than 14 years.

Surely things are bound to get better.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. There is light at the end of the tunnel....

I heard that line for years during Vietnam.