Vietnamese dictator Phan Van Khai has announced he plans to visit Washington, D.C., next month. This will be a test for President Bush.
Will Bush ask Khai when Vietnam plans to hold those free elections everyone agreed to in writing in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords?
More generally, will Bush ask Khai the same tough questions he asked Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? Where are your free opposition political parties, your free press, your free speech, your independent courts? How do you spell "freedom" in Vietnamese?
And who elected Khai dictator?
Frank Warner
My question would be:
"If the Americans invade Vietnam again, would the Vietnamese WIN again?"
Posted by: Red Star | May 11, 2005 at 09:43 AM
No more shooting, please, but the Vietnam War isn't over until Vietnam is free.
The Vietnamese people won nothing but enslavement when North Vietnamese Communist invaders rolled into Saigon -- two years after U.S. combat forces left South Vietnam.
The North Vietnamese leaders had promised to allow free elections in South Vietnam in the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. The South Vietnamese are still waiting for those free elections. The North Vietnamese also are waiting for their freedom.
It's been clear for 30 years that, when the Communists spread their oppression into South Vietnam, all the Vietnamese people had lost. Today they are all slaves.
Posted by: Frank Warner | May 11, 2005 at 12:01 PM
Just ask Black America if they are "Free"
"don't throw stones if you live in a glass house"
Posted by: Red Star | May 11, 2005 at 05:20 PM
Go ahead, ask, collect answers and debate.
You can't even ask such a question in Vietnam without going to jail.
All the Vietnamese are slaves to Communism.
Posted by: Frank Warner | May 11, 2005 at 06:34 PM
Hey birdbrain, have you EVER been there? Let alone been outside of the USA?
Posted by: Red Star | May 12, 2005 at 02:11 PM