Breitbart – by JOEL B. POLLAK You don’t have to think the Vietnam War was a good idea to understand that communist dictator Ho Chi Minh, who led North Vietnam in the war until his death, was a not a good guy. Yet President Barack Obama praised Ho Chi Minh today at the White House, comparing him to the Founders of the United States.
From the PJ Tatler:
President Obama hailed hard-core communist revolutionary Ho Chi Minh today as a pretty open guy who was actually inspired by the Founders.
Obama took a break from his jobs-pivot speeches to meet Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang at the White House. The pair held joint remarks in the Oval Office afterward….
Obama said Sang concluded the meeting by sharing “a copy of a letter sent by Ho Chi Minh to Harry Truman.”
“And we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas Jefferson. Ho Chi Minh talks about his interest in cooperation with the United States. And President Sang indicated that even if it’s 67 years later, it’s good that we’re still making progress.”
Obama’s gesture is the latest example of his complete disdain for a) the idea of American exceptionalism; b) the principles of human rights, which have taken a back seat during his administration; c) the families of tens of thousands of Americans and Vietnamese who fought and died, albeit for an ultimately doomed cause.
President Obama continues to see himself as an outsized, world-historical symbol of reconciliation. Lauding Ho Chi Minh is on a par with visiting (and, by implication, equating) Buchenwald and Dresden, or with trying to reconcile Americans with the Muslim world, as if the victims of terrorism owed extremists anything.
It’s a pathological form of moral relativism, one that might be called (im)moral equivalence. The Vietnam War ended four decades ago, and we have a new relationship with the nation that emerged from it, but that should not mean prostrating ourselves, our history or our ideals for the sake of Obama’s self-serving platitudes.
One filthy commie praising another filthy commie. Any questions?
“Lauding Ho Chi Minh is on a par with visiting (and, by implication, equating) Buchenwald and Dresden, or with trying to reconcile Americans with the Muslim world, as if the victims of terrorism owed extremists anything.”
What a crock. Not only did they manage to slip in holohoax lies, they also repeated the endless lies about the FALSE FLAG/INSIDE JOB of 9/11.
This belongs on FAUX or ZNN, not FTTWR.
Obomba is our hoochie koochie man…
Now you know why the Monkey King & Traitor McCain are such good reach around guys.
French colonization drove the Vietnamese into the arms of communists who provided the resources to resist colonial domination. Defeating France, the US stepped in under the pretense of anti-communism and the domino theory when in reality it was a resource grab. Vietnam went communist because of western meddling, not because they particularly embraced communism.
The US government is the worst representative for American ideals I can think of.
perfect analysis…
……ug……and,… onto the bile bucket………raaallllpppppphhhhhhhh………………:(
The next thing we will see this traitor scum do is Have Hanoi Jane over for Drinks and a Photo op! It sicken me that such a Filthy Communist sits in the White House and spews this vile for the world to laugh at!
Ho Chi Minh was yet another CIA asset.
World War II presented the perfect opportunity to launch a revolution. Ho Chi Minh mobilized an army of 5,000 soldiers. On September 2, 1945, Viet Nam’s Independence Day, Ho Chi Minh borrowed the sentiments of Thomas Jefferson when he said “We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal.” A Vietnamese band played the Star-Spangled Banner and American warplanes flew overhead. U.S. Army officers were adjacent the reviewing stand. Ho thought Viet Nam had a special friendship with the U.S. However, the support given to the Viet Minh by the local OSS hierarchy did not reflect the political goals of the Power Elite who controlled the U.S. government.[1]
By early 1947, the Truman Administration had made decisions and set policy that would impact Viet Nam for the next two decades. Based on the friendliness and past association with OSS agents, Viet Minh leaders had hoped for American assistance and support. Ho Chi Minh had written numerous letters to President Truman and the State Department in 1945 and 1946 requesting America’s help in freeing Viet Nam from France. None were ever acknowledged. He also petitioned the United States following World War I. Both times, his pleas were ignored.
Seems to me, that he went with China out of desperation. Maybe he was driven into his arms. Truman, the ass wipe and the American Empire, needed an enemy and a new bad guy. Ho Chi Minh fit the bill. Vietnam…just one of many countries messed up for profit and advancement of the New World Order.
He organized the Vietnam Doc Lap Dong Minh Hoi (League for the Independence of Vietnam), or Viet Minh. A liberation zone is established near the border with China. From here the Viet Minh work to harness the discontent of urban nationalists and the rural poor into a unified movement for the liberation of Vietnam. Vietnam was under the very same oppressors everyone is screaming about today…Ho Chi Minh and the Viet Minh began a guerilla war against Japanese forces occupying Vietnam.
Gee, he sounds like their George Washington. And wasn’t it a false flag operation that started the war? Didn’t Henry Kissinger and the banksters make huge profits on the war? Didn’t they use it to rape the country of natural resources and smuggle drugs in caskets?
Myths of the Vietnam War by Robert F Turner, The Pentagon Papers Reconsidered, September 1972, Accessed August 27, 2007
In June 1954, while the Geneva Conference was still in session, the CIA’s Saigon Military Mission (SMM) arrived to establish a campaign of undercover military and psychological warfare against the Viet Minh. They had a hefty checkbook and unlimited American taxpayer dollars. Yes, our government commits acts of terrorism with your money! They were to carry out “political, psychological and terrorist activities against the native population in the northern regions” – where citizens were struggling to find enough to eat and where Ho Chi Minh’s growing group of revolutionaries was located. With the best-equipped stable of saboteurs, they committed “terrorist acts in Hanoi and surrounding Tonkin. SMM agents polluted petroleum supplies, sabotaged the railroad, tried to destroy the largest printing establishment in the North, bombed the post offices, wrote and distributed millions of anti-Viet Minh leaflets and printed and distributed counterfeit money.” The abundance of fake money created inflation.[22] When the monopoly media describes deadly explosive events in Baghdad, I speculatively surmise that it might be the CIA’s Baghdad Military Mission (BMM), also financed by American dollars.
After the signing of the armistice in Geneva on July 21, 1954, Eisenhower and his Director of Central Intelligence, Allen Dulles (CFR, *Warren Commission, Operation Northwoods, Operation Paperclip) decided to assign paramilitary expert Edward Lansdale who then chose CIA agent Lucien Conein to engage in unconventional warfare. The two men, together with one hundred American soldiers, created the Military Assistance Advisory Group ((MAAG) for Viet Nam.[23] A Military Assistance Advisory Group consists of American military advisors who train the regular armed forces of Third World countries. * It is ironic that Dulles was on the commission to determine who killed the man that fired him from his CIA job and then threatened to break the CIA into pieces.