Have to rub my eyes that I read it on the progressive site OpEdNews!

Michael Leon is NOT asking that we concern ourselves with the Vietnamese hundreds of thousands suffering the effects of OUR military personel agent oranging them. No, he is asking our help him honor our Vets who died from Agent Orange after coming back from killing the Vietnamese fighting the American occupation and bombing of THEIR countryside.

Honor for what. For helping exterminate a few million men, women and children in war that we lost anyway. Does Mike really have no compassion at all for the lost children of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, carpet bombed, naplamed, raked from automatic fire from helecopters in free fire zones besides having Agent Orange dumped on them by American pilots contaminating some of their buddies as well.

Honor for the killers of the Vietnamese people, who today see the U.S. backing its government for WTO membership? The very same government Truman brought back the French Colonial Army to war against; Ike carpet bombed Laos and prevented an all-Vietnam election in violation of the Geneva Treaty, publically admitting Ho Chi Minh would have won by an overwhelming majority; Kennedy bombed the Delta in the deep south; Johnson bombed North Vietnam and the south and put in a half-million sodiers. Nixon carried on and carpet bombed Western Cambodia creating a vengeful Khmer Rouge; Ford let war drag on to a bloody end. The corporate entertainment/news media called all those indigenous courageous people fighting us communists, and read us the military body count figures with satisfaction.

Damn! Hooray for Americans! I hope Mr. Leon gets his deceased from Agent Orange American soldiers honored with some sort of monument. But rather than asking readers of OpEdNews for help, why not go to the government directly. The government, that is presently killing Iraqis in Iraq, Afghani in Afghanistan and Somali in Somalia. Now media calls all those fighting our legal terror, illegal terrorists.

If Mr. Leon has not noticed, most OpEdNews articles reflect anti-war, anti-imperialist and peace and justice hopes and are interested in honest history. Maybe try The National Review. Its readers might well like to contribute. Some might understant how an intelligent and kind person could have been, or still be, proud of 'serving' in Vietnam.

Jay Janson, occupation troops of Nazi Germany Vet.

by Jay Janson (105 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 117 comments [4 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jul 27, 2007 at 4:02:59 PM

If you think the bullshit Vietnam war (where yeah, we did kill three million, at least) logcially necessitates screwing over the veterans, you are nuts. Yes, war sucks; it creates a huge number of victims, of different classes. You seem fine with the proposition that we ought screw over the American veterans, because the war makers killed millions in Southeast Asia. Appalling logic. 

Let’s ignore every victim of war, beause the war victimizes a huge class of other people. Brilliant. Let's let all the victims of the Vietnam war prevent any other action that assists people because, well, the war killed people. Let all postive action cease now, and let's stick out heads in the sand out of respect for people killed. Lucky that we have you around with your compelling logic to remind progressives that we ought do nothing out of respect for the dead.
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by Michael Leon (111 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 29 comments) on Saturday, Jul 28, 2007 at 4:51:04 AM