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/p> p> CUT AND RUN SYNDROME br> Re: Andrew Cline's Still in Saigon : /p>

I could not disagree more with Andrew Cline (and others') arguments that Democrat are somehow fighting the last war. If anything, I have been shocked by the number of Republicans who seem to write and/or go on air and try to rewrite history as it relates to Vietnam.

Turn on any FOX News show or read the Washington Times and The American Spectator and you will find dozens of examples over the past 6 months to a year, especially, wherein an author or pundit is trying to somehow make a point that Democrats lost Vietnam. They continue to bring up the specter of helicopters leaving Saigon and how we "abandoned" our allies and our principles...and somehow try to suggest that this all happened because McGovern's anti-war efforts had led Dems astray.

Do these folks really believe that? I was in junior high and high school in the early '70s and there was no one, and I mean no one, who wasn't in favor of getting the hell out of Vietnam by that point. Nixon, Kissinger and everyone under 30 agreed...we had been there too long, we weren't winning and too many Americans had died unnecessarily.

Oddly, now all I read about in the right leaning-press is that Democrats lost Vietnam. Our imbacile [sic] President suggests his key learning from Vietnam is that we are an impatient country...and that we could have won had we stayed...(or something like that). What a fool!

p>It's okay for you guys to root for your right wing philosophies and such but you really are making yourselves look stupid to a whole generation of now 50 to 80 year old voters who think you are nuts. Your crazy re-take on Vietnam is all but assuring us Democrats of another huge win in 2008. br> -- Joe Scaccia br> Pasadena, California

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