From: Jeff Shultz 

On 6 Jan 2003 11:54:28 GMT, Bob.Ackley{at}harborwebs.com wrote:

>
>Insofar as our involvement in the war is concerned, IMO we should have gone in
>with overwhelming force on Day 1, destroyed the enemy's capability to resist,
>and left.  Incremental pressure 'to send the enemy a message' doesn't work, it
>gives the enemy time to adjust and take countermeasures.  You'd think Johnson
>would've
>realized that by 1967.  'course, it took Nixon until late 1972 to finally
>decide to take the war to the enemy seriously (I was working at SAC
>headquarters during Linebacker and Linebacker II and, contrary to media
>reports, we did not target hospitals or housing areas - that very famous
>picture and caption of the bomb damage to Bach Mai Hospital (which was empty
at
>the time, BTW; and note that the sign in the picture has paint so fresh that
>it's visibly running and, more to the point, it says "Bach Mai
Hospital" - in
>*English*) neglected to mention the factoid that the hospital is right across
>the street from the Citadel, North Vietnam's equivalent of our Pentagon).

Same song different verse... see the "Baby Milk Factory" and the
bomb shelter covered with communications antennas from Desert Storm.

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