Granule (01-30-2014), Truth Detector (01-29-2014)
Vietnam was the war that America wasn't allowed to win.
- Brent Bozell
We all know about the Hoople's politically correct version of the Vietnam war but here are some real facts about that long ago war in southeast Asia that you may not know.
Myth: The U.S. military lost the war because they were defeated by the superior forces of Ho Chi Minh's glorious people's army.
Fact: The U.S. military in all intent and purposes had the war won on the battlefield but were stabbed in the back by Democrats in congress who cut off funding for the South Vietnamese army following President Nixon's resignation over Watergate giving the communists in the north their final triumph.
Myth: The U.S. military in Vietnam was a collection of misfit draftees who were ignorant and uneducated and who were ill equipped to handle the terrain of Vietnam.
Fact: The U.S. military in country was the best equipped military in U.S. history up to that point.
The U.S. military was the best educated military in U.S. history up to that point having their ranks
filed with considerable numbers of college graduates both officers and enlisted men.
Myth: America's military had a high casualty rate due to the incompetency of the draftees who were forced to
fight there and their redneck officers who were as incompetent as their subordinates.
Fact: Seventy percent of all U.S. casualties were enlisted men and not draftees
MAGA IS ALIVE AND WELL.
Granule (01-30-2014), Truth Detector (01-29-2014)
Fact: John Kerry enlisted in the Navy, specifically requesting swiftboat duty because he thought it was the best way to avoid actual combat while having a military stint on his resume to enhance his political career.
Fact: When the swiftboat duties were changed to include inland river duty, Kerry did everything he could to get out of serving, and eventually did by invoking the little-used and completely voluntary 'three purple hearts and out' provision. Two of the awards were given for dubious injuries, and at least obe self-inflicted and dismissed by his immediate commander as 'a scratch, requiring nothing more than a band aid'.
Granule (01-30-2014), Truth Detector (01-29-2014)
Most educated military up to that point.
You just edged out gang members in education.
fact: all draftees are enlisted.
fact: John Kerry did not "enlist".
The rest is undeniable fact.
The Dude (01-29-2014)
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
A lie doesn't become the truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it is accepted by a majority.
Author: Booker T. Washington
MAGA MAN (01-29-2014)
That 70% figure is inflated, many people saw small number draws and enlisted before they were drafted. They didn't have many options and often could get better jobs if they just gave up the fight rather than wait for a draft.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
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The Dude (01-29-2014)
We had the technology. We could have rebuilt it; faster, better, stronger.
Or something like that. some old foegy will correct me
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The Dude (02-04-2014)
absolutely. there were lots of guys with low draft numbers who went down, took the ASVAB, and then went knocking on the doors of recruiters from the Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and National Guard and got themselves plum rate/training packages there rather than wait for the draft board to turn them into ground pounding cannon fodder. Most of them would never had thought to join the armed forces otherwise.
Close your bowl hole, Mr Chong. You never finished college (if you even went to college) and you're waaaaayyyyy too stoned and Democrat to deal with stocks, bonds or anything else that has to do with Wall Street. Just shut your face and get your ass in the soup line, where it belongs.
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