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Palangi · #1 01-04-2010, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Billybob

In fact it was Truman who started us on the road when in "September 1950 - Truman sends the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina to Vietnam to assist the French. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces."

Yeppers, and American WW2 surplus weapons were sold to Uncle Ho during the Truman administration......

Not that I think Truman was a bad president. Actually, I think Truman might well have been our best president. Democrats were actual patriotic Americans in those days, unlike now.

Chas H · #2 01-04-2010, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Palangi

Yeppers, and American WW2 surplus weapons were sold to Uncle Ho during the Truman administration......

Can you give us a site or a cite for that?

Palangi · #3 01-04-2010, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Chas H

Can you give us a site or a cite for that?

It was common knowledge that the O.S.S. clandestinly supported the Viet Minh against the Japanese during WW2. You can find numerous references to that in practically any article you can Google up on the Viet Minh. It continued for a short while at the end of WW2. Remember, Uncle Ho was preoccupied with being pissed at the French at that time. He really didn't actively get pissed at the US until the US allied with the French against him, mid to late 1946 approximately.

Remember, the Truman administration began before the end of WW2. The O.S.S. was supporting the Viet Minh during that time.

Google is your friend.....

Chas H · #4 01-04-2010, 10:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Palangi

It was common knowledge that the O.S.S. clandestinly supported the Viet Minh against the Japanese during WW2. You can find numerous references to that in practically any article you can Google up on the Viet Minh. It continued for a short while at the end of WW2. Remember, Uncle Ho was preoccupied with being pissed at the French at that time. He really didn't actively get pissed at the US until the US allied with the French against him, mid to late 1946 approximately.

Remember, the Truman administration began before the end of WW2. The O.S.S. was supporting the Viet Minh during that time.

Google is your friend.....

What you have posted here is pretty much correct, in contrast to your previous post.
We didn't sell arms to Ho, we gave them to him, and it started during FDRs term, not Trumans.

Palangi · #5 01-04-2010, 11:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Chas H

What you have posted here is pretty much correct, in contrast to your previous post.
We didn't sell arms to Ho, we gave them to him, and it started during FDRs term, not Trumans.

Whatever.........

Berkeley dude would like us to believe that it all started under Ike. Fact is, it started before that.....

Chas H · #6 01-04-2010, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Palangi

Whatever.........

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Accuracy is your friend.

Palangi · #7 01-04-2010, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Chas H

Accuracy is your friend.

Yeppers, I noticed how quickly you corrected Berkeley Dude.....

Jim B. · #8 01-05-2010, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Palangi

Yeppers, and American WW2 surplus weapons were sold to Uncle Ho during the Truman administration......

Not that I think Truman was a bad president. Actually, I think Truman might well have been our best president. Democrats were actual patriotic Americans in those days, unlike now.

Without question that is the most utterly divisive, partisan, ignorant and untrue statement of the day seen on this forum.

JollyRoger · #9 01-05-2010, 04:27 PM

It really is. Hateful to the extreme. I'd respond, but the moderator does not appreciate my honestly expressed opinions on such things. I have to keep it clean.

Jim B. · #10 01-05-2010, 04:44 PM

I B T L

Palangi · #11 01-05-2010, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim B.

Without question that is the most utterly divisive, partisan, ignorant and untrue statement of the day seen on this forum.

I just love the way democrats squeel like stuck donkeys when their own tactics are used against them.....

JollyRoger · #12 01-06-2010, 10:03 AM

I can not recall one time in my entire life where I called Republican traitors. Misguided greedy self-centered knuckle draggers yes, but calling a fellow countryman a traitor simply because you disagree with his political views, political views that developed over centuries in this country, is a low and cowardly act, an insult of the kind that does not end well at the local bar, and it is unfortunate that you cannot do it to my face.

Txjake · #13 01-06-2010, 10:05 AM

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Originally Posted by JollyRoger

I can not recall one time in my entire life where I called Republican traitors. Misguided greedy self-centered knuckle draggers yes, but calling a fellow countryman a traitor simply because you disagree with his political views, political views that developed over centuries in this country, is a low and cowardly act, an insult of the kind that does not end well at the local bar, and it is unfortunate that you cannot do it to my face.

certain actions by todays prominent democrats are considered traitorous by some of the populace.

your last sentence sounds like a personal threat, perhaps you should edit it...

JollyRoger · #14 01-06-2010, 10:07 AM

I find the man's opinion insulting to the hundreds of thousands of Democrats who gave their lives fighting for this country in it's wars. I could GAS what he thinks about it, and those who think otherwise ought to keep it to themselves or they might meet someone who has people in his family who have done just that. The idea that only Republicans love this country is one of the things that truly, truly, mess you people up. Perhaps you should brush up on the story of Joe Kennedy, or give thanks that Truman had the guts to do what he did, or perhaps look into the story of the female soldier who had both her legs blown off in Iraq and is now a US Congresswoman. What a perverted, disgusting opinion that "some of the populace" have.

Chas H · #15 01-06-2010, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Txjake

certain actions by todays prominent democrats are considered traitorous by some of the populace.

Which actions are considered traitorous?