Ho Chi Minh
by S Shriver	23 May 2014
Ho Chi Minh mistakenly thought the US, founded by a revolution against colonial invaders, would help Vietnam free itself from the French
Ho at the age of 31 in 19215
HO CHI MINH The vast majority oppose current illegal wars, while remembering to respect all warriors. . Ho had lived in the US from 1911 to 1919, working as a line manager at General Motors and other jobs. He also lived later in the UK and France and traveled to Russia and China, in each place learning the language. Few have been told that Ho Chi Minh first petitioned President Woodrow Wilson after World War I for help in freeing Vietnam from the colonizing French invaders He had mistakenly thought that America would help other countries trying to free themselves from white European colonizers. Next Ho was promised in World War II by President Roosevelt that if the Vietnamese helped fight the Japanese, the US would help free Vietnam after the war from French oppression. Roosevelt died and Truman broke the promise. Dulles in the Eisenhower administration even offered nuclear weapons to the French. John F Kennedy was murdered for wanting to withdraw from Vietnam (as well as wanting to abolish the CIA, the Federal Reserve, and to remove nuclear weapons from Israel). Lyndon Johnson resigned because of popular opposition to the war he expanded as General William Westmoreland hid Americnn casualties while multiplying the 'kill' numbers of the Viet Cong. Nixon and Kissinger further expanded the genocide, bombing Cambodia. Millions of Vietnamese died along with 58,000 Americans who died, many drafted into fighting a war they opposed. The jungles were burned with napalm. Countless animals, birds, reptiles were bombed or burned. Herbicides such as agent orange (a toxic defoliant) poisoned plants and trees while even today Vietnam vets and Vietnamese are dying from the carcinogens which drenched Vietnam. Soldiers were programmed to sacrifice themselves for their country, but that was not the case. They were dying for the greed of the rich who wanted to expand capital markets. Even today, the Military Channel, History Channel, Fox News, and countless other media contrast communism with democracy, a falsehood since communism, socialism and capitalism are economic systems, while monarchy, oligarchy, democracy are political systems. - s shriver- Picture is of Ho Chi Minh at the age of 31. http://upload.wikimedia.org/