Protesting The War: The Anti-Vietnam War Movement

[Originalbud55]

JANE "F**KING TRAITOR" FONDA... just saying THAT name makes me wanna puke! Every Nam vet will have a celebration when she dies and goes to HELL!

[NOBULLANDNOSPIN]

Ronald Reagan was a great man indeed! A++ The hippies and the freaks were absolutely worthless. The hippies and the freaks did not do a dam thing for America! The hippies and the freaks cost the taxpayers millions of dollars do to the willful and malicious destruction and defacement of public and private property that the hippies and the freaks were responsible for. in addition, millions of dollars were spent on police to protect public and private property from the hippies and freaks!

[ecospiky]

what is the song that plays at the beginning?

[norge88]

The hippie philosophy is the most naive, intolerant, selfish, and hypocritical I've ever come to know.

[50poiuyt]

The war crimes of USA in Vietnam were disgusting.In the eyes of the world,Yanks = killers babies .That was why they lost

[norge88]

@50poiuyt They didn't lose, they withdrew. I understand that you're only allowed to learn what your government allows you to learn- but why you decide to settle for that, I'll never understand.

[50poiuyt]

@norge88 They didn't lose,they escaped from Vietnam with their tail between their legs only

[USACLINTEASTWOOD]

@50poiuyt - SAT CONG - DEMOCRACY FOR VIETNAM - FREEDOM VIETNAM -

NAPALM FOR COMMUNISTS - AGENT ORANGE FOR VIETCONGS

HO CHI MINH, POL POT AND 50POIUYT IS NAZIS

FUCK COMMUNISTS

DANGER - DANGER - MR.50POIUYT IS KHMER ROUGE - CRIMINAL WAR IN CAMBOJA AND VIETNAM.

FREEDOM TIBET - FREEDOM VIETNAM - FREEDOM LAOS - FREEDOM CUBA - FREEDOM CHINA -

FREEDOM IRAN - FREEDOM NORTH KOREIA - FREEDOM SYRIA - FREEDOM LIBYA.

[norge88]

No, the US gave up on a worthless cause and an ungrateful people. Now your people live only to serve a government that puts its own interests in front of the interest of the people. What kind of victory is that?

[IH8FoxNews23]

This was put together well except for this guys voice - made me want to jump off a bridge at the minute mark.

[50poiuyt]

@luyben12 they weren't baby killers.

[USACLINTEASTWOOD]

@50poiuyt THIS MR.50POIUYT IS CRIMINAL WAR 'KHMER ROUGE' - CRIMINAL WAR IN CAMBOJA AND VIETNAM - FUCK 50POIUYT - SAT CONG - FREEDOM VIETNAM - DEMOCRACY FOR VIETNAM - HO CHI MIM, POL POT AND 50POIUYT IS NAZIS. SAT CONG - AGENTE ORANGE FOR VIETCONGS - NAPALM FOR COMMUNISTS - SAT CONG. FUCK HIPPES GAYS

[portagee66]

@50poiuyt No, the Viet Cong definitely were. An evac plane so large that the U.S. still has incorporated towns which are smaller, filled entirely with women and children, military wives and children, and evacuees, mostly orphans and their caregivers, was not merely shot down, but bombed by the Viet Cong. They knew exactly who was on the plane. They later stated that this was exactly why they chose it. For shock value, and because human life, especially that of the enemy, meant nothing to them.

[50poiuyt]

@portagee66 Yanks are coward war criminals,when they can't kill enemy,they kill civilians to frighten enemy

[portagee66]

@50poiuyt Antarctica??!! Now THAT is a coward!!!

Sure, they could've used sodium pentathol on everyone they met first, to find out which side they were on. Riiiight.

You don't mention that the VC, if they heard a RUMOR that ONE person from a village MIGHT sympathize with the South, would kill, pike, and gut the ENTIRE village before setting it on fire. Even the animals. Or that this began BEFORE *anyone* else was involved there, which is why the South needed the help in the first place.

[50poiuyt]

@portagee66 Yank's gov.propaganda crowded shit into your small head,dumb parrot !

[portagee66]

@50poiuyt Wrong. I've seen the pix and the scars of survivors. I've talked to families about their PTSD episodes, and seen some of them. Some things CANNOT be faked. I *NEVER* take *ANYONE'S* word for ANYTHING.

[portagee66]

@50poiuyt Plane had single survivor, a toddler. TODAY, she is still in intense mental health treatment from shock of the carnage she lived through.

Those who *know* agree that this act was among the least of the atrocities the VC committed. Kerry told the truth, BUT he *didn't* say that this was nothing in comparison. But he should have.

The VC often & openly stated their goal was not unified Vietnam, but eradication of all South Vietnamese.

Advocating the VC is the SAME as helping them.

[kingtourism]

I would be so proud of my children if they stood up for something ... instead of the nothingness that seems to prevail these days. Facebook, MySpace and other such social networking sites, while great on some level have made couch pototato's out of an entire generation who sit back and observe, criticize, wax prosaic and basically do nothing but bitch and complain. I feel really sorry for them.

[MrMustang13]

now that all thr hippies grew up look whos running the country.

[Dracoma88]

i dont understand we are more deeply oppressed then any of these people were and yet we look back as though they were the hero's, they tryed deeply and succeeded in putting the plan back a few notches but its been back in order for more years then most could imagine, this is what needs to happen again we need the balls to stand up and demonstrate without backing down, we need a new group of hero's willing to put everything on the line to truly end the oppression of the world by the elite,

[TheUber133t]

To me, hippies are the real heroes. They saved America from blind partisans of war. Who knows? Had it not for them, the human race would have become extinct through the destruction of World War 3. Thanks for saving the world and America. God bless you all :)

"A true patriot is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins".

--Frederick Douglas on REAL patriotism

[beachballa93]

I love the idea of peace. The fact is, its unrealistic. Its never gonna happen. For those you say, "give peace a chance", peace has been given a chance and the US always seems to get attacked in some way or another.

[ErnstBecker]

What the hell is Hanoi Jane doing here? She was then, is now, and forever will be Hnaoi Jane. Remember Benedict Arnold? Now we have Hanoi Jane.

[chucknchar]

@ErnstBecker maybe you were the traitor for not speaking up, you let the military industrial complex use our sons and daughters for another lie. i'm a vietnam vet and recently i bought my grown son a dining room set made in the republic of vietnam? at least i survived to live life, 58,000 died because of the ability of authority to stir up false sense of patriotism, it is your duty to question government.

[ErnstBecker]

@chucknchar

Your logic is twisted. Over 58,000 died because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. How could I have been a traitor when I enlisted? My M14 spoke for me. Charlie and Nathaniel Victor listened.

[chucknchar]

@ErnstBecker you might be stupid dude, they died because old rich men sent young men to die, the same thing as in iraq, its the never ending story. don't you ever think? do you think your buddies deserve a just cause to fight? do you really have their back?

[delta2901]

I was drafted in 68 and served in the infantry with the 101st Airborne and did not want to got but it was the law. Viet Nam draft dodger who went to Canada made a choice that they have to live with and i have no respect for these cowards who went to canada and let someone die for them. they should be ashamed until the end of time.

[HARRYLOCOFANCLUB]

We have to go on ! Non violent protest ! Strike for PEACE !

[ThatUJohnWayne]

I'm extemely curious about something. I'm not bashing well not really but can u tell me why the anti-war grounds after the Vietnam war didnt protest the violence of Khmer rouge or stand up for the boat people that the North Vietnamese killed...no scratch that committed genocide against?

[ctenar1970]

ThatUJohn ... USA do not have right and force to interfere in business other nations

[ThatUJohnWayne]

@ctenar1970

That doesn't answer the question I asked.

[50poiuyt]

The boat people died on the seas because they believed in the your propaganda.N.Vietnamese had not resposilibility for their stupidity

[kingtourism]

@ThatUJohnWayne Because that generation learned through hard lessons and loss of life that the military and powers that were committed to war were willing to do anything, including KILLING protestors.

[Studjeff4]

my father is the friend of the general of south ietnam and the general of south vietnam is liing in california somewhere

[1lovelyartist1]

this is very well done. Im writing this paper on the anti war protests and this provides a good mental picture :)