Calanen wrote on Apr 6
th, 2009 at 1:59pm:
Easel, what you are saying is just nuts on so many levels, and you are saying it without a shred of evidence.
I know its trendy to do revisionist history now, say FDR really was a plant of the Third Reich and the Kaiser actually was a disgruntled american candidate who ran for the United States Senate and then had plastic surgery, going back to Germany to start the First Wold War - but Occams Razor is the best solution to these problems.
The CIA fought a war for the Americans, and eventually, it lost because it went on for longer than a democracy could put up with. That's all.
It was a war about money, as they usually are. America does not get involved in wars that are genuinely about freedom, it always has economic undertones.
The CIA were arming the 'bad guys' in Cambodia also, before the Vietnam war even officially started under codename Forecourt/Caughtfour. It is about money.
You don't believe something as easy to believe as that because it isn't yet declassified? What about Air America? With the CIA working with bringing heroin to the west on a wide scale? What about the CIA working with Nazi scientists after WW2 conducting wide scale experiments on unwitting human subjects? You believe that because it is declassified right? But them selling guns to the 'enemy' you find hard to believe?

If it was about freedom, why were small weak countries attacked by the USA in Asia and South America, and members of 'Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance' were left alone? It was never about that.
The USSR had a policy of supplying arms to wars of liberation wherever they occur around the world. They never asked for drugs or resources in return.
Quote:The Chinese AK-47's used by the Viet Cong were well made.
Too well made, to be Chinese.
So perhaps the 'Chinese' AK-47's were made in America?
And these AK-47's were then supplied to the Viet Cong, .......by the USA???
OK, i'll bite.
Why?
Chinese AK's were well made, often with Russian equipment given to China. A lot of the AK's were crap during the war. They weren't Chinese or Russian made. They were reverse engineered in America, and were crap. They looked the same but the manufacturing was different as were materials. America was just in the market for money.
The AK-47 was a superior weapon to the weapons issued to US forces.
The AK-47 would shoot through trees, whereas the m16 wouldn't, due to ammunition. Much better weapon. Cheaper too.
The sadistic Americans also design their small arms to wound not kill.