As a veteran of this particular conflict, I say anyone who was against the war, for whatever reason, lightweight or heavy, they were on my side. Anyone who was promotin'it,for whatever reason, was out to get my ass shot off. Robert McNamara said in his book that he knew that the war couldn't be won as early as 1966. He was someone who had the power to stop it, but he didn't. Apparently, there was some geo-political rationale for this. Of course, in the next nine years, 50,00 Americans and God knows how many Vietnamese died. Last thing I heard, he was walkin' around like a free man. Jane Fonda was kind of a bimbo actress who tried to do something real. Professionaly, she had nothing to gain and everything to lose by what she did. She went ahead and did it anyway. Made a lot of people mad. The war is over. If she has blood on her hands, it's a lot less than many of us. She moved on. The Vietnamese moved on. Time for all of us to move on.
Seth from China
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