11-13-2006, 10:35
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The Viet Cong Never Followed US Home
Found the Following on SOCNET, and thought it was a good read.
Doesn’t matter how anyone “feels” about Iraq --- We are where we are
The Viet Cong Never Followed US Home
Posted on SOCNET by CB
“Every once in a while, in among the mass hysteria and political slants of those with vested interests in US foreign policy, emerges a column with some damn smart insight. Such an article was published yesterday. It is worth a read. --- CB”
SOCNET POSTING -- socnetcentral.com/vb/showthread.php?t=65066
American Thinker URL -- http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...00&search=Viet
--It doesn’t matter how we got there. It doesn’t matter how you think you were lied to. It doesn’t matter if you think there was a connection between Sadam and Al-Qaeda. The only thing that matters now is that both Al-Qaeda and Iran and the terrorist groups they back and inspire believe that Iraq is their decisive battle. They have chosen it as the place where they will defeat America, and unlike the Viet Cong, they will not stay put. They will follow us home.
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11-13-2006, 11:49
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We have a problem. We post these articles and we read them. We see the truth. The problem is the Dem's and far left do not see the truth.
In Vietnam, in 1968, a bunch of us sat around and talked about what would happen if we lost or pulled out....... we all had visions of communist concentration camps waiting for many of the South Vietnamese and assassinations of the educated because that is what had happened in every communist take over since WW II.
Yet the Dem's and the far left could not see it or didn't want to see it and they protested for the North Vietnamese to win...... History is repeating......... and this time it could be Americans dying in America.
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11-13-2006, 12:06
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The Viet Cong may not have followed us home but Al Qaeda has already been here.
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11-13-2006, 12:24
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Good Read..........Thanks
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11-13-2006, 12:46
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Tough to read this then go to an article (well several articles) stating the Democrats want to pull out of Iraq NOW-no if's, and's or but's. 
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11-13-2006, 14:10
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This isn't really a true statement, although those VC and NVA that are here do not pose a danger to the USA. (I hope.)
According to a lot of my South Vietnamese friends they have seen and identified number of former VC and NVA soldiers here in the good old USA. 
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11-13-2006, 14:24
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Trip-
I agree, a good fraction of SVN followed us home - and a select few of the VC & NVA did the same. The odd thing is, for the most part they're playing nice in the schoolyard, and contributing to society - not sure if I could say the same for the current Islamic contingent .
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11-13-2006, 14:56
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I think the writer meant "following us home to continue the war or to kill us"; which is what the fanatic Muslims would do.
Jim
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11-23-2006, 12:35
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I am not surprise a few VC or NVA came to the states. I knew several chou hoi (SP?) one was ex-VC the other two ex-NVA. USA has a lot to offer a person. Sadly the AQ and friends are not interested in making a better life for anyone, they want to destroy.
I see not much in comparison with the NVA and Muslims outside the fact the NVA were once our enemies. I don't know if it is possible for the "fanatical Muslims" to ever not be our enemy by their own choice.
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11-23-2006, 16:07
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Originally Posted by x_sf_med
Trip-
I agree, a good fraction of SVN followed us home .
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When I was at Benning in 1976 pushing some ROTC kids thru Ranger School I was at the PX gas station filling up my vehicle. Out of the corner of my eye I see this figure running straight for me arms spread wide open as if to grab me. I turned, nonchalantly replaced the nozzel back in the gas pump and quickly dropped to one knee taking him over my back and on to the tarmac. As I was about to drive my fist thru his face I heard him sputter," Dai Uy it is I, Quan". Well you could have floored me, it was the LLDB XO from Mang Buk. He had gotten out of SVN on one of the last ships. What really surprised me was that I was sure that given the opportunity that the Yards would have whacked him as he was placed in the camp to keep tabs on his boss who was a Montagnard LLDB Captain and they never trusted him. I helped him up, told him that I had hoped I had not hurt him and was glad to see that he was still alive. Then I told him that we don't do that huggie thing in the great US of A-except in San Francisco. 
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11-23-2006, 18:25
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Here at work (DFW Airport) a few years back, we hired a Viet mechanic. One morning in the Break Room, I asked him where he was from. His reply was Saigon. So I came back with "no, where in RVN were you really from?". He looked at me kinda funny and asked "You know Viet Nam? Where you know Viet Nam??". I tell him I know Kontum, Pleiku, etc, and his eyes lit up. He tells me he's from Dak To!!!
I draw a map showing Kontum and the road to Pleiku, with our compound straddling the road. His eyes got even bigger and he exclaims "That's AIRBORNE"!!! I went to my office and grabbed my SOA jacket with the modified SOG Patch on it. When I showed it to him he snapped to attention, saluted and said " That BAD AIRBORNE!!!"
To this day, whenever I run into him, he clicks his heels together and renders a proper salute!!! He had just been a kid back then, but they never forget.
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