From: Randall Parker 

I hope we are not repeating this mistake in Iraq. Give them Russian weapons to use in
their civil war after we are gone. Reserve our weapons for the Kurds.

Did you know that Hugo Chavez is talking about selling F-16s to the Iranians?

Monte Davis wrote:
> I know it won't make any difference to those who KNOW that the US
> betrayed its commitments and bugged out of South Vietnam, leaving it
> at the mercy of Hanoi's well-armed juggernaut...
>
> "[When Saigon fell in 1975] The United States ... could not retrieve a
> vast military treasure chest of arms and ammunition contributed to the
> ARVN and now left behind as a gift to the North Vietnamese army.
> Included in this martial bounty were 51 F-5A fighters; 22 F-5E
> fighter-bombers; 113 A-38 attack bombers; 36 A-1 Skyraiders; 40 C-119
> Flying Boxcar transports; 10 C-130A Hercules transports; 36 AC-47
> gunships; 159 0-1 and 0-2 observation planes; 430 Huey helicopters; 36
> CH-47 helicopters; 80 175mm self-propelled guns; 250 155mm howitzers;
> 1,000 105mm howitzers; 2,200 M-113 APCs; 300 M48 / A3 tanks; 42,000
> trucks; 47,000 M79 grenade launchers; 63,000 LAWs (Light Antitank
> Weapons); 15,000 M60 machine guns; 12,000 60mm, 81mm, and 90mm
> mortars; 791,000 M16 rifles; 857,000 other small arms; 90,000
> .45-caliber pistols; 48,000 radios; 940 ships (most of which were
> landing craft or small river warships); and 130,000 tons of
> ammunition."
>
> (from _ Vietnam in Military Statistics: A History of the Indochina
> Wars_, by America-hating Commie Michael Clodfelter (airborne infantry,
> RVN 1965-1966)... relayed to me by my America-hating Commie brother
> (USMC, RVN 1968-69)

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