You said soldiers. Please provide a link showing most US soldiers did not approve of the Nam war.
Jane Fonda Plays Nancy Reagan , and the right wing goes nutty...
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Wally, you're right. Sorry gopher.
97% of Vietnam Veterans were honorably discharged.
91% of Vietnam Veterans say they are glad they served.
Source: Interesting Vietnam War Facts, Statistics & Myths
Were they rabid haters of Jane? I highly doubt it,
How do you get pissed off at legs like that when you're 21?
:lol:
Interesting!
A small proportion of a very large number can look huge on the internet. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of the 'Jane Fonda lead sex and torture orgies with the 'Nam prison guards' bloggers are sitting on a pile of hate Jane tee shirts that they gotta sell or pulp for rags.
The irritating thing about an argument with Walt is that his 'links' are usually some basement loonie with a cheap website.
Remember the great Antarctic ice debate - Walt?
Interesting!
A small proportion of a very large number can look huge on the internet. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of the 'Jane Fonda lead sex and torture orgies with the 'Nam prison guards' bloggers are sitting on a pile of hate Jane tee shirts that they gotta sell or pulp for rags.
The irritating thing about an argument with Walt is that his 'links' are usually some basement loonie with a cheap website.
Remember the great Antarctic ice debate - Walt?
Re: Jane Fonda Plays Nancy Reagan , and the right wing goes nutty...
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Quote: Originally Posted by Walter
You said soldiers. Please provide a link showing most US soldiers did not approve of the Nam war.Wally, you're right. Sorry gopher.
97% of Vietnam Veterans were honorably discharged.
91% of Vietnam Veterans say they are glad they served.
Sheer propaganda - not one word of truth there.
Here's the reality and it's not pretty:
GI opposition to the Vietnam War, 1965-1973 - Howard Zinn | libcom.org
Pentagon officials in Washington and navy spokesmen in San Diego announced, after the United States withdrew its troops from Vietnam in 1973, that the navy was going to purge itself of "undesirables"- and that these included as many as six thousand men in the Pacific fleet, "a substantial proportion of them black." All together, about 563,000 GIs had received less than honorable discharges. In the year 1973, one of every five discharges was "less than honorable." indicating something less than dutiful obedience to the military. By 1971, 177 of every 1,000 American soldiers were listed as "absent without leave," some of them three or four times. Deserters doubled from 47,000 in 1967 to 89,000 in 1971.
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Vietnam Veterans Against the War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* membership = 25,000-30,000 at its highest membership
* 200,000 claimants for injuries resulting from exposure to dangerous chemicals
* Over 210,000 men were accused of draft-related offenses, 25,000 of whom were indicted.
* Over 30,000 people left the country and went to Canada, Sweden, and Mexico to avoid the draft
Less than honourable is the same as dishonourable?
25,000-30,000 is still only 5-6% of the 536,100 deployed.
25,000-30,000 is still only 5-6% of the 536,100 deployed.
Now add the thousands that defected, who protested against the war, and the many thousands who voiced their opposition to the war peacefully. This is far more than just the handful that the war's apologists say and is in keeping with reports from that era which said the majority opposed the war along with the general public.