HANOI ATTACKS BUSH'S HISTORY LESSON ON VIETNAM

by The Anglo American | September 7, 2007 at 06:00 am | 490 views | 4 comments

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President Bush recently suggested that the US withdrawal fom South East Asia led to the genocide and bloodbath in the region and used this to justify the continued deployment of US troops in Iraq.

This has angerd Hanoi for its oversimplicication and not least the role that Washington played in the region.

Ton Nu Thi Ninh, former deputy chair of the foreign relations committee of Vietnam’s National Assembly, recently said........

Vietnam was “an unjustified and a wrong war in the first place so to start analysing things only from the withdrawal of US troops is really puzzling”, she said. “The root of the problem is not the withdrawal, it’s the very fact of starting up the war in the first place.”

Le Dung, foreign ministry spokesman, told a Hanoi press conference this week.

“With regard to the American war in Vietnam, everyone knows that we fought to defend our country and that this was a righteous war of the Vietnamese people. We all know that the war caused tremendous suffering and losses to the Vietnamese people.”

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Brian A Kennedy

at 09:09 on September 7th, 2007

good stuff:

The Anglo American, a really interesting angle on this story. Thanks for highlighting it!

moonwolf

at 12:37 on September 7th, 2007

Bush calls it a "withdrawal" but actually it was a full-blown panic retreat. My sister was there and described some of the, ah "withdrawal" to me. I won't recount it here as it might offend some USA'ns and call their revisionist history into question.

There was nothing noble about the behavior of the USA in Vietnam and Cambodia. Good for the Vietnamese for telling it like it was!