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What John McCain didn't learn in Vietnam
In spite of overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the former POW insists we could have won. No wonder he talks of occupying Iraq for a century.
By Joe Conason [2008-07-04]

  • Losing Vietnam

    General Giap never said that the North Vietnamese were ready to surrender: this is a hoax; see http://www.snopes.com/quotes/giap.asp. What he -- and many others -- did say is that the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong did not need to win military victories, they just needed to keep fighting and that eventually the US would give up.

    -- bill-in-la
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    Saturday, July 5, 2008 08:41 AM
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