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Originally posted by fastpat
[B]With substantial emergency military aid from the US government, they rushed in the new TOW missile equipped UH-1M's. That effort stopped the North Vietnamese armor columns dead. So, you're in error.
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Actually, AH-1s with HEAT armed 2.75" rockets also helped to stop said columns dead, but stopped they were, so i'm not sure how i'm in error...
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Kissinger et al wanted a reescalation via military funding, the US congress said no, that is correct, which occured in 1975. The war was over, as far as Americans were concerned, and said as much to their congressmen. I was certainly happy about it. The south-Vietnamese government was being run by a corrupt war-lord by this time, who should have met the same fate as Diem. I think he lives in Southern California these days, occaisionally appearing on TV.
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I was not arguing the right or wrong of things, merely observing facts.
The fact is in 1973 with US support the commies were stopped, and in 1975 without US support they were not.