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72Hardtop
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Re: Earn it...

Post by 72Hardtop » Wed Apr 15, 2015 3:28 pm

Amskeptic wrote:
wcfvw69 wrote: By 1943, the Americans were in the game full force. America had it's immense war industry hitting on 8 cylinders and the outcome of the war against the Germans and Japanese was all but over.
. . . and that is the key to any lasting victory. We did have truth on our side.

. . . we did not have truth on our side in Vietnam, or Iraq, and that is what pisses me off the very deepest about the damage to our young soldiers, to our treasury, to our good name, to this very moment.
Colin

(p.s. thank God the gunner missed the power plant at the Wolfsburg plant, huh? He was pissed, was it an itchy nose? but he missed and it gave us Volkswagens by the millions)

The truth was there...it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.
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Re: Earn it...

Post by 72Hardtop » Fri Apr 17, 2015 12:28 am

1972 Westy tintop
2056cc T-4 - 7.8:1 CR
Weber 40mm Duals - 47.5idles, 125mains, F11 tubes, 190 Air corr., 28mm Vents
96mm AA Biral P/C's w/Hastings rings
42x36mm Heads (AMC- Headflow Masters) w/Porsche swivel adjusters
71mm Stroke
Web Cam 73 w/matched Web lifters
S&S 4-1 exhaust w/Walker 17862 quiet-pack
Pertronix SVDA w/Pertronix module & Flamethrower 40K coil (7* initial 28* total @3200+)
NGK BP6ET plugs
002 3 rib trans
Hankook 185R14's

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Re: Earn it...

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Apr 18, 2015 7:51 am

72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...
What was it?
72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.
This makes no sense. We prosecuted our war effort during WW II from Washington. What are you really saying?
Colin
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Re: Earn it...

Post by wcfvw69 » Sat Apr 18, 2015 10:37 am

wcfvw69 wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:
72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...
What was it?
72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.
This makes no sense. We prosecuted our war effort during WW II from Washington. What are you really saying?
Colin
The big difference was that Roosevelt trusted his Generals and allowed them to prosecute the war. Yes, he was hands on and very involved but his top general (and un-appreciated by historians, George Marshall) was exceptionally brilliant and talented. Marshall lead the overall American strategy.

BTW, if it was not for the Marshall plan that help put Europe back together after the conclussion of the European conflict, we all might not be enjoying our VW's. :thumbleft:
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Re: Earn it...

Post by Amskeptic » Mon Apr 20, 2015 8:30 pm

wcfvw69 wrote:
wcfvw69 wrote:
Amskeptic wrote:
72Hardtop wrote: The truth was there...
What was it?
72Hardtop wrote: it's politics that failed Vietnam. Lesson learned? One will never win nor gain a war by running it from Washington.
This makes no sense. We prosecuted our war effort during WW II from Washington. What are you really saying?
Colin
The big difference was that Roosevelt trusted his Generals and allowed them to prosecute the war. Yes, he was hands on and very involved but his top general (and un-appreciated by historians, George Marshall) was exceptionally brilliant and talented. Marshall lead the overall American strategy.

BTW, if it was not for the Marshall plan that help put Europe back together after the conclussion of the European conflict, we all might not be enjoying our VW's. :thumbleft:
The Marshall Plan was a moment of true humanity and reaching out. That put US on the right side of history. We were so clearly and horribly on the wrong side of history or truth in Vietnam or Iraq.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
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