On 2 Dec 2003 15:49:26 -0800, kay_danes@yahoo.com.au (Kay Danes)
wrote:

>Dai: I agree with you. The situation was made far worse when the US
>left because then the real hunting began and continues even today. Ho
>Chi Minh made a public announcement at the end of the withdrawal that
>all traces of those who supported the US will be hunted down and
>killed.

Ho was alive at the end of the withdrawl? I thought he died Sept. 2,
1969.

> Not everyone in the South supported the US forces... many were
>frightened and did not understand war.


That may well be the silliest statement made here this year. They
didn't understand war? How could they not? They'd been living in it
all their lives! "They wanted to live in peace" is quite simplistic;
of course they did, most people in this world want to live in peace.
Remember Noel in the addy