Planet*Visitor*II wrote;

Do you really think the media was
disposed to favorably support the U.S.
military in Vietnam??

I think they did a wonderful job along with the Anti-War Movement and
Jane Fonda.
Or did *you* have a better plan for *prolonging* the War?

And I suppose *you* would have thought it wonderful to be able to credit
that crook Nixon with ending LBJ's War in his 1st term rather than a
couple of weeks into his 2nd term with a higher death and causality rate
on both sides?

I think it is sad that people like *you* back then and even today never
gives them credit for all they accomplished without *your* support and
help!!!

Regards (with tongue in cheek:-), Walter

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North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin.* In a
postwar interview with The Wall Street Journal reproduced at length in
'Aid and Comfort',� the Colonel, a dedicated Communist cadre for most
of his life, confidant of Ho Chi Minh and the architect of the Ho Chi
Minh Trail� along which the North Vietnamese conducted their
aggression against the South, and also one of the first officers of
their army to enter Saigon on the day it fell, had this to say:
*
Wall Street Journal:* Was the American antiwar movement important to
Hanoi's victory?
*
Colonel Bui Tin:* "It was ESSENTIAL to our strategy.* Support for
the war from our rear [China] was completely secure while the American
rear was vulnerable.*
Every day our leadership would listen to world NEWS over the radio at 9
a.m. to follow the growth of the AMERICAN ANTIWAR MOVEMENT.
Visits to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda . . .GAVE US CONFIDENCE THAT
WE SHOULD HOLD ON IN THE FACE OF BATTLEFIELD REVERSES."

[And the Brilliant General Giap mentioned earlier agreed] *

"The identical point was made by North Vietnamese Defense Minister
General Vo Nguyen GIAP, the architect of France's defeat at Dien Bien
Phu.* This was the man most responsible for the Communists military
strategy in their war with the United States."