Gen. Giap: Kerryâs Group Helped Hanoi Defeat U.S.
The North Vietnamese general in charge of the military campaign that finally drove the U.S. out of South Vietnam in 1975 credited a group led by Democratic presidential front-runner John Kerry with helping him achieve victory. In his 1985 memoir about the war, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap wrote that if it werenât for organizations like Kerryâs Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Hanoi would have surrendered to the U.S. - according to Fox News Channel war historian Oliver North. Thatâs why, he predicted on Tuesday, the Vietnam War issue "is going to blow up in Kerryâs face."
I'm not positive of that, regardless of the facts. A lot depends on the Dems' spin cycle... | "People are going to remember Gen. Giap saying if it werenât for these guys [Kerryâs group], we would have lost," North told radio host Sean Hannity. "The Vietnam Veterans Against the War encouraged people to desert, encouraged people to mutiny - some used what they wrote to justify fragging officers," noted the former Marine lieutenant colonel, who earned two purple hearts in Vietnam. "John Kerry has blood of American soldiers on his hands," North said.
Posted by: tipper 2004-02-12 |