20230818 Cong Dong Tham Luan
Sự thật về chiến tranh Việt-nam.
Democratic Republic of North Vietnam: “We surrender
unconditionally.”
Ted Gunderson:
“I also received some information recently in my tours and lectures, and
what have you. I did a TV show in Long Beach, California. One of the gentlemen
involved in the show was in the U.S. army at one time. He told me that in the
spring of 1973 we had bombed all the North Vietnamese supply lines, we had
mined their harbors, they were cut off; and one of his associates was in the
communication room in Saigon, and this is, of course, a classified job. And
when he was in this room he received this message from the North Vietnamese,
“We surrender unconditionally.” He passed it on to his superiors; and all army
personnel were immediately ushered out and replaced by state department
personnel. It’s shortly thereafter that Kissinger met with the north Vietnamese
officials in Paris, France. Why do these things happen?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwvXyzo7MjM
The Truth about the Vietnam War
Bruce Herschensohn.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hqYGHZCJwk
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
Vietnam’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 Talk 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 om 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 th 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 form the North.
Put simple and accurately, a majority of Democrats of
the 94th Congress did not keep the word of the United States.
On April 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.
On April the 30th South Vietnam surrendered
and Re-education Camps were constructed, and the phenomenon of the Boat People
began. If the South Vietnamese had received the arms that the United States
promised them would the result have been different?
It already had been different.
The North Vietnamese leaders admitted that they were
testing the new President, Gerald Ford, and they look one village after
another, then cities, then provinces and our only response was to go back on
our word.
The U.S. did not re-supply the South Vietnamese as we
had promised. It was then that the North Vietnamese knew they were on the road
to South Vietnam’s capital city, Saigon, that would soon be renamed Ho Chi Minh
City.
Former Arkansas
Senator William Fulbright, who had been the Chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee made a public statement about the surrender of South
Vietnam.
He said this, “I am no more distressed tha I would be
about Arkansas losing a football game to Texas.”
The U.S. knew that North Vietnam would violate the
accords and so we planned for it.
What we did not know was that our own Congress would
violate the accords.
And violate them, of all things, on behalf of the
North Vietnamese.
That’s what happened.
I’m Bruce Herschensohn.
20230818 CDTL 01
Following the fall of Saigon, more than a million
South Vietnamese were sent to re-education camps in the countryside.
250,000 died there, victims of summary executions, torture, disease, and malnutrition.
20230818 CDTL 02
Between 1975 and 1995, two million Vietnamese fled their country, sailing the South China Sea in poorly equipped vessels in their quest for freedom.
20230818 CDTL 03
Known as The Boat People, it is estimated that 200,000 of them died in the effort-victims of drowning and of murder by pirates.
20230818 CDTL 04
Today, Vietnam still has a Communist government… but
it has abandoned all the Communist economics theories for which it sacrificed
so many of its citizens.
Bruce Herschensohn.
Văn Thơ Lạc Việt.
https://vantholacviet.com/tuong-niem-thang-tu-den/
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