Letting Our Soldiers Die, When the Bush Administration Knows the War is Lost: A Lesson from Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War

Wonder how these papers managed too slip through the Bushite Classification Machine.

BuzzFlash Editorial: Letting Our Soldiers Die, When the Bush Administration Knows the War is Lost: A Lesson from Henry Kissinger and the Vietnam War:

"Awhile back, we ran an editorial that pointed out how futile the Vietnam War was. In fact, in the end, it no longer was a war about keeping South Vietnam from becoming 'Communist'; it just became a war fought to ensure that the U.S. wasn't perceived as losing, even as it was suffering a devastating loss in a war that shouldn't have been fought in the first place.

In short, thousands and thousands of U.S. soldiers -- and hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodians -- lost their lives over the continuation of a war for the mere purpose of the fear that a pullout would have left the perception that the U.S. 'lost the war.'

The BuzzFlash editorial was confirmed in a May 27th Associated Press article that received little attention. In newly released documents about the Vietnam War, it is revealed that 'Henry A. Kissinger quietly acknowledged to China in 1972 that Washington could accept a communist takeover of South Vietnam if that evolved after a withdrawal of U.S. troops -- even as the war to drive back the communists dragged on with mounting deaths.' "