The Truth about the Vietnam War | 5 Minute Video
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Published 2014-06-23
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Script:
Decades back, in late 1972, South Vietnam and the United States were winning the Vietnam War decisively by every conceivable measure. That's not just my view. That was the view of our enemy, the North Vietnamese government officials. Victory was apparent when President Nixon ordered the U.S. Air Force to bomb industrial and military targets in Hanoi, North Viet Nam's capital city, and in Haiphong, its major port city, and we would stop the bombing if the North Vietnamese would attend the Paris Peace Talks that they had left earlier. The North Vietnamese did go back to the Paris Peace talks, and we did stop the bombing as promised.
On January the 23rd, 1973, President Nixon gave a speech to the nation on primetime television announcing that the Paris Peace Accords had been initialed by the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, the Viet Cong, and the Accords would be signed on the 27th. What the United States and South Vietnam received in those accords was victory. At the White House, it was called "VV Day," "Victory in Vietnam Day."
The U.S. backed up that victory with a simple pledge within the Paris Peace Accords saying: should the South require any military hardware to defend itself against any North Vietnam aggression we would provide replacement aid to the South on a piece-by-piece, one-to-one replacement, meaning a bullet for a bullet; a helicopter for a helicopter, for all things lost -- replacement. The advance of communist tyranny had been halted by those accords.
Then it all came apart. And It happened this way: In August of the following year, 1974, President Nixon resigned his office as a result of what became known as "Watergate." Three months after his resignation came the November congressional elections and within them the Democrats won a landslide victory for the new Congress and many of the members used their new majority to de-fund the military aid the U.S. had promised, piece for piece, breaking the commitment that we made to the South Vietnamese in Paris to provide whatever military hardware the South Vietnamese needed in case of aggression from the North. Put simply and accurately, a majority of Democrats of the 94th Congress did not keep the word of the United States.
On April the 10th of 1975, President Gerald Ford appealed directly to those members of the congress in an evening Joint Session, televised to the nation. In that speech he literally begged the Congress to keep the word of the United States. But as President Ford delivered his speech, many of the members of the Congress walked out of the chamber. Many of them had an investment in America's failure in Vietnam. They had participated in demonstrations against the war for many years. They wouldn't give the aid.
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All Comments (21)
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I live and vlog in Vietnam right now. Fun fact : most vietnamese people I talk to love America
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my grandpa was in the Vietnam war. It was so bad that he swore he would never talk about it after it was over. He died last year, and he kept his word to the grave.
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"The military doesn't start wars, politicians start wars" - General William Westmoreland
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I was on a few ship in the Western Pacific in 1977-1979 and we rescued many So. VN boat people. CWO4 (Cryptology), USN, Ret, 73-95.
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We still napalmed unarmed villages.
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”You can’t lose the war if you quit it” -USA
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As a Vietnamese American, I love the country and the people. That doesn't mean I like the government. However, Vietnamese people have a big heart willing to forgive and give a second chance even you did stabbed us in the back. Vietnam is a war country for thousands of years and we live by the code of honor and dignity.
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I keep finding more and more frequently how many lies my teachers have taught me at my schools
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I have been living in Vietnam for the last two years. I love living in Saigon. I have been all over South Vietnam on a motorbike. The Vietnamese people are very kind. Yes they love Americans.
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regardless, we should never have been there in the first place
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History is about to repeat it self, but this time in Afghanistan. As soon the US troops leave that place the Taliban will return.
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I had watched documentaries on the ' Vietnam conflict' and on the rise, then subsequent decline of US Military support. I had been frustrated with the inconsistencies in US policy and lack of follow through. Now I finally understand why. And I thought only the current (2018) Congress was nearly bankrupt of sound principle.
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Stories are always different on each sides.
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Hello American people ,i am an Vietnamese and i wanna say Don't mind visit us we are friends not enemies The Peace is real if you accept it :3 This was talk by an 10 years old girl
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Another truth about Vietnam: "Charlie don't surf!" --Lt.Col. Kilgore
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It's Amazing how the U.S. College students can be used as a political tool. Still happening today.
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Growing up as a Vietnamese Boy for more than 18 years, this is the first time I have ever heard this. Whether it is truth or not, it is heartbreaking!
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The typical liberal apologists for the North Vietnamese communists - who are, likewise, critics of the USA - will often play a kind of mind game: It goes like this: "If I admit 5% of error in the side that I support, I will win 100% of the high moral ground. With this 100% victory, I will declare my ideological enemy to be 100% in the wrong." For anyone who thinks the North Vietnamese communists were such little darlings: Upon the invasion of South Vietnam in 1975, the Vietnamese Communists, led by Le Duan, perpetrated a huge bloodbath in murdering hundreds of thousands of South Vietnamese men, women, and children in cold blood. Up to 155,000 refugees fleeing the final NVA Spring Offensive were killed or abducted on the road to Tuy Hoa in 1975. Sources have estimated that 165,000 South Vietnamese died in the re-education camps out of 2.5 million sent, while the number executed could have been as high as 200,000 (Jacqueline Desbarats estimates an absolute minimum of 100,000 executions). Victims were beheaded, eviscerated or buried alive. Rummel estimates that slave labor in the "New Economic Zones" caused 50,000 deaths (out of a total 1 million deported). The number of boat people who died is estimated between 200,000 and 400,000, out of the 2.5 million that fled (according to the UN). There were also tens of thousands of suicides after the North Vietnamese take-over. And yet liberals will continue to bleat their statistics and cite the My Lai massacre (ONE massacre by a rogue platoon, condemned and abhorred by every decent American citizen)... they will continue to make their movies (turning the ONE My Lai massacre into a generalised slur against the integrity and honour of the American soldier... they will continue to twist history, declaring the "winners write history" (when in truth it is they, the liberal losers, who are writing it and teaching it and declaring it as truth)... and on and on the liberals lie. The real TRUTH is that every time a liberal lies about the North Vietnamese communists, they perpetuate the erosion of America. Which is exactly what they, in Truth, want.
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The United States could have kept fighting for the next ten years after 1973 but as in Afghanistan the result would have been the same. It was a waste of the blood and treasure of a great nation.
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Sure, sure, the US won the Vietnam war... They simply forgot to inform the enemy that they won and... left..
