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 Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 4:12 am Post subject: Death of General Westmoreland |
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In April 1967, a month when several hundred thousand Americans participated in antiwar protests, General Westmoreland spoke to an Associated Press luncheon and asserted that � despite "repeated military defeats" � the Vietnamese Communist enemy was able to continue the anti-U.S. struggle "encouraged by what he believes to be popular opposition to our efforts in Vietnam." At the time, independent journalist I. F. Stone aptly called it "the oldest alibi of frustrated generals � they could have won the war if it hadn't been for those unpatriotic civilians back home."
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The old general refused to take any blame himself. Like many neo-cons today, believe that the war should have been won. It was those damn Hippies! |
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