Originally Posted by tonkovich

uh, perhaps, if you knew of kissinger's double dealing (sabatoging lbj and negotiating a secret deal with nixon) in '68, which scuttled the paris peace talks, and his (and the u.s. government's) agreement to exactly the same terms four? five? years (and thousands of lives lost) later, you would have a different view of both those wonderful americans. for the record, lbj was too chickens**t to pull out before the 66 midterms (listen to the tapes) - kissinger is an evil man and war criminal, starting with vietnam, then chile, and on and on, and nixon talked tough on vietnam and is responsible for many deaths, cynically doing anything to get into office and then get re-elected.

as to the "north" vietnam - china connection, you might note the brief border war between those two in the mid '70's, after the unification of north and south vietnam.

the vietnamese were fighting-for a thousand years- to free themselves from occupation. from the chinese, the japanese, the french and then the americans.