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Congratulations, Toriatama, for a passionate and very well-reasoned defence of Ho Chi Minh.
Now there will be idiots here who will call you a "Marxist", a "Comunist", a "thief" and stuff like that - but the fact is that you just believe in freedom of people (the Vietnamese, for instance) to choose whatever it is they want to be (even if they happen to make a mistake in their choice) - and not to be dictated to by the US as represented by the likes of GW Bush and Gang (and other predecessors of his).
It is too sad indeed that the US ever got involved in Vietnam because of Henry Kissinger and his utterly idiotic "Domino Theory": the Vietnamese only wanted to be free of French colonial misrule of their nation - and John F. Kennedy and his ridiculous ideas pushed them into the communist camp.
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