April 21, 1954/1975 – USAF Flies French Troops to South Vietnam / Nguyen Van Thieu Flees South Vietnam

April 21, 1954/1975 – USAF Flies French Troops to South Vietnam / Nguyen Van Thieu Flees South Vietnam

From http://aproudliberal1.blogspot.com/2007/04/april-21.html

April 21,
● 1954 - USAF flies French battalion to Vietnam

● 1975 - Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyen Van Thieu flees Saigon, condemning the United States, as Xuan Loc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls. {Of course, his condemnation wasn't so strong as to prevent him from living in the US until his death.}

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Thieu#Life_in_Exile

Life in Exile
Thiệu fled directly to Taiwan, later he settled in Surrey, Great Britain. Finally, he took up residence in Newton, Massachusetts, in the United States, where he died in 2001.

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nguyen_Van_Thieu#Quotes

Quotes
● "But the United States did not keep its word. Is an American's word reliable these days?"
● "The United States did not keep its promise to help us fight for freedom and it was in the same fight that the United States lost 50,000 of its young men."
● "Losing a President Thiệu, the military still has a three-star General Thiệu. The people still have a soldier, Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. I pledge to fight side by side with my brothers, the soldiers." {Within hours of making this statement, he had fled the country leaving his brother soldiers to bear the reprisals of the North without him.}
● "You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do."

I picked these two events and dates because they are an exact tracking of the War unfolding in Iraq. The French arbitrarily drew the borders for Iraq, Iran and Vietnam. The US aided the French in their colonial rules. The local populations finally got rid of the French colonial powers only to have the United States to try to re-insert itself as a new colonial power in Iraq and Vietnam, with saber rattling occurring against Iran. Vietnam ended so badly that the corrupt President of Vietnam that we had supported for ten long years had to bad mouth us on the way out. One wonders when the United States finally removes itself from the Civil War that is Iraq which Iraqi politicians will be abdicating power, bad mouthing the US and then finally fleeing here to live out their years.

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