Vietnam War in the News

It was recently released that in 1972 behind closed doors, Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State to Nixon, was making deals with communist China in regards to Vietnam. It was June 22, 1972, and Kissinger was meeting with then Chinese Premier, Zhou Enlai. It was during this meeting that he stated, "If we can live with a communist government in China, we ought to be able to accept it in Indochina."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601926.html

Although troop levels were starting to decrease by that time, 600 American lives were lost from June of 1972 to end of the war. 600 lives!

Well, as we know, history repeats itself. The parallels between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq are

1. We were lied to! Americans were led to believe that Russia was behind the invasion of North Korea. It has now been revealed in the Pentagon Papers that there was no proof of Russian involvement preceding the war. Sounds familiar right? Americans were told the same story about al Qaeda's supposed involvement in Iraq. But instead, we've only opened Iraq to al Qaeda, which had no presence in Iraq pre-war.

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