holy viet nam redux, Batman!!!

[beauregardez]

Thanks to Kos for this one:

"U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote :
Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror

by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967: p. 2)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete returns reaching here."

[politicaholic]

1. My Goodness!

:scared:

Hopefully the Iraq election sticks.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

2. Heavy.

:hippie:

[Jacobin]

3. Anyone reminded of Mission Accomplished, Part II?

I am

[DemoTex]

4. A lie then .. a lie now. See Will Pitt's "The Story of Ghosts."

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/013105W.shtml


Revisionist History, Inc.

[tk2kewl]

5. D'oh!