Once, We Were Told That The VietCong Were A Threat To Us

[Yavin4]

And, mothers had to send their sons off to die in order to stop them.

Well, the VietCong have been in power for 30 years or so. Where's the threat to our way of life?

[cthrumatrix]

1. they don't have that funny black liquid stuff under their feet....IMHO

[gordianot]

5. True but it is under their boat. Think offshore.

see link: http://www.petrovietnam.com.vn/Modules/PVHome.asp

[Kraklen]

2. Uh huh. They were called terrorists too.

[achtung_circus]

3. I was a young teenager

and I recall hearing something very much like this, from my American cousin before he went to Vietnam.

"If we don't fight them there, where will we fight them? On the Mississippi?"

He was somewhat less enthusiastic when he returned (to put it diplomatically).

[Yavin4]

7. I'd Rather Have The VietCong In Mississippi Than What We Have There Now

Just a joke Mississippi DUers. I keed. I keed.

[gordianot]

4. Well, Bush is now going to Vietnam to establish trade agreements.

Maybe they will finally negotiate off shore oil leases with Vietnam which was a primary reason for the war to begin with and not ideology. When Vietnam and China had their little border war that did a nice job smashing the World Communist conspiracy idea, the dominoes never really fell and now they all want a cut of the corporate pie.


We are in Iraq for the same reason the British reacted so strongly to the invasion of the Falklands. There are oil futures out there in Vietnam, Iraq and other places that have not yet started up.

[Yavin4]

8. What? He Didn't Call His Dad To Get Him Out of The Trip?

Out of sheer reflex, Bush probably signed up for TANG when he saw Vietnam on his agends.

[gordianot]

12. Yes he is going to Vietnam 30 years too late.

[TX-RAT]

6. Where's the threat to our way of life?

Ask the South Vietnamese how their way of life has changed.
If you can find one.
2,000,000. Dead

[Yavin4]

11. Vietnam Was A Civil War Atrocity Waiting To Happen

There was no way that we could ever stop it. European colonialization always produces at least two classes of people: though who were favored by the colonists and those that weren't. Once the colonial power leaves, then these two groups go at it.

[JVS]

9. Ummm maybe the sweatshop shoes made in Vietnam?

:shrug:

[shadowknows69]

10. Well

we we're never able to open that Disneyworld Saigon. I was pretty tore up about that.