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Oddly enough, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap recently published his memoirs, in which he said the American media won the Vietnam war for the Vietcong. “What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it,” he wrote. “But we were elated to notice your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!” Giap’s words are an important lesson from the past, to be sure.

http://patriotpost.us/pub/07-49_Digest-print.htm

[Me#1You#10]

Good Lord...not this...again.

These so-called "Giap memoirs" are, apparently, the stuff of urban legend and they do a dis-service to the case against Kerry and to the credibility of those who continue to quote them.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1165078/posts

[Guest]

this paragragh should have preceded the one i posted.
guess that's what they were leading into:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been counting on support from her man on the case, Rep. John Murtha (D-PA), when it comes to thwarting the U.S. war effort in Iraq. It was Fightin’ John, after all, who blustered recently, “We can’t win militarily.” Unfortunately for Pelosi, however, Murtha seems to have changed his tune. “I think the surge is working,” he declared last weekend, adding that it’s “a window of opportunity.” Before we give Murtha too much credit, though, he then insisted on qualifying his support with the latest Democrat talking points: “Unfortunately, the sacrifice of our troops has not been met by the Iraqi government and they have failed to capitalize on the political and diplomatic steps that the surge was designed to provide.” In other words, the Democrats have decided that the only measure of success in Iraq is Iraqi politics. It’s Whack-a-Mole, folks—the classic case of the moving target. We’re sure that if all Iraqi politicians agreed to get along beginning tomorrow, success soon would be defined in another way by American leftists.

Oddly enough, North Vietnamese General Vo Nguyen Giap recently published his memoirs, in which he said the American media won the Vietnam war for the Vietcong. “What we still don’t understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender! It was the same at the battles of TET. You defeated us! We knew it, and we thought you knew it,” he wrote. “But we were elated to notice your media was definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won!” Giap’s words are an important lesson from the past, to be sure.

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[Me#1You#10]

JN, before you invest, do a google on the subject. It's an old story, fought out many times before...and it always seems to end the same way. The quote from Giap cannot be sourced.

[JN173]

[BuffaloJack]

The source of the quote or some paraphrased version of it is an old British documentary series on Vietnan called the "Ten Thousand Day War". It was from an interview with Giap by the film makers. The interview or parts of it were cut up and spliced in over 2 or 3 episodes. Also in this interview, Giap stated that the NVN spent several times as much money supporting the antiwar effort in the US as they did actually fighting in Vietnam. It was never part of any memoirs by Giap.
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