Thursday, March 6, 2008

The Washington Times uses a false claim made by Gen. Nguyen Giap ... to praise the 'Surge' in Iraq

Via the Art of Peace, we have the Wash-Times' piece ("Iraq + 10 Years") and the site Snopes.com dissects the FALSE claim & its origins, here
"What we still don't understand is why you Americans stopped the bombing of Hanoi. You had us on the ropes. If you had pressed us a little harder, just for another day or two, we were ready to surrender. It was the same at the battles of Tet. You defeated us. We knew it, and we thought you knew it. But we were elated to notice your media were definitely helping us. They were causing more disruption in America than we could in the battlefields. We were ready to surrender. You had won."

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

it's a Dolchstosslegende classic. It was used first successfully after the so called First World War against the German left and led to to Second World War