Jimk wrote:
>
> On 14 Feb 2004 14:50:51 -0800, hanoijanekerry@yahoo.ca (Hanoi Jane
> Kerry) wrote:
>
> >http://www.1stcavmedic.com/jane_fonda.htm
> >
> >As the American POWs returned home in 1973, they spoke out about the
> >inhumane treatment and torture they had suffered as prisoners of war.
>
> How Nixon plotted to prolong Vietnam
>
> By MARTIN KETTLE in Washington
>
> On the eve of his election in 1968 Richard Nixon secretly
> conspired with the South Vietnamese government to wreck all-
> party Vietnam peace talks as part of a deliberate effort to
> prolong a conflict in which more than 20,000 Americans were
> still to die, along with tens of thousands of Vietnamese and
> Cambodians.
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Ar...049515,00.html

Martin Kettle assumes that South Vietnam had any interest in a
peace plan floated by President Lyodon Johnson. South Vietnam
understood that peace meant withdrawal that mean capitulation to
the North.

David