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Back In Time

Author : Ken Slater
Let's go back in time...it's 1967 and the headlines back then read:

US Airforce intensifies the bombing of North Vietnam . . .
U.S. plans to start missile net...
1967 Pan Am Games...
13 US helicopters are shot down in Vietnam...
Writer and historian Bernard B. Fall is killed by a Viet Cong...
Military Coup in Greece...
Six Day War...
Egyptians blockade the Straits of Tiran...
Israeli Air Force launched a pre-emptive strike...
Large Scale War Protest Begins...
Johnson meets Kosygin...

WOW, 1967 was a year for protests and military actions! Does any of this sound familiar? If you were to ad the word "Iraq" in with any of these headlines, it would be something you might hear today.

Let's try another one: U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote (NYT 9/4/1967)
If we replaced Vietnam with Iraq it would read: U.S. Encouraged by Iraq Vote, (CNN 1/30/2005)
Funny how history repeats itself. The point I'm trying to get is our Iraq war is another Vietnam. We are viewing it the same way and our government hopes and desires are the same. Many headlines from 1967 can be "reused" as headlines today. Below is the entire headline and story from Sept. 4th, 1967...

Don't forget to add the word Iraq in the place of Vietnam then you decide-Ken

U.S. Encouraged by Vietnam Vote :
Officials Cite 83% Turnout Despite Vietcong Terror

by Peter Grose, Special to the New York Times (9/4/1967)

WASHINGTON, Sept. 3-- United States officials were surprised and
heartened today at the size of turnout in South Vietnam's
presidential election despite a Vietcong terrorist campaign to
disrupt the voting.

According to reports from Saigon, 83 per cent of the 5.85 million
registered voters cast their ballots yesterday. Many of them risked
reprisals threatened by the Vietcong.

The size of the popular vote and the inability of the Vietcong to
destroy the election machinery were the two salient facts in a
preliminary assessment of the nation election based on the incomplete
returns reaching here.

Pending more detailed reports, neither the State Department nor the
White House would comment on the balloting or the victory of the
military candidates, Lieut. Gen. Nguyen Van Thieu, who was running
for president, and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky, the candidate for vice
president.
A successful election has long been seen as the keystone in President
Johnson's policy of encouraging the growth of constitutional
processes in South Vietnam. The election was the culmination of a
constitutional development that began in January, 1966, to which
President Johnson gave his personal commitment when he met Premier Ky
and General Thieu, the chief of state, in Honolulu in February.

The purpose of the voting was to give legitimacy to the Saigon
Government, which has been founded only on coups and power plays
since November, 1963, when President Ngo Dinh Deim was overthrown by
a military junta.

Few members of that junta are still around, most having been ousted
or exiled in subsequent shifts of power.

Significance Not Diminished

The fact that the backing of the electorate has gone to the generals
who have been ruling South Vietnam for the last two years does not,
in the Administration's view, diminish the significance of the
constitutional step that has been taken.

The hope here is that the new government will be able to maneuver
with a confidence and legitimacy long lacking in South Vietnamese
politics. That hope could have been dashed either by a small
turnout, indicating widespread scorn or a lack of interest in
constitutional development, or by the Vietcong's disruption of the
balloting.

American officials had hoped for an 80 per cent turnout. That was
the figure in the election in September for the Constituent
Assembly. Seventy-eight per cent of the registered voters went to
the polls in elections for local officials last spring.

Before the results of the presidential election started to come in,
the American officials warned that the turnout might be less than 80
per cent because the polling place would be open for two or three
hours less than in the election a year ago. The turnout of 83 per
cent was a welcome surprise. The turnout in the 1964 United States
Presidential election was 62 per cent.

Captured documents and interrogations indicated in the last week a
serious concern among Vietcong leaders that a major effort would be
required to render the election meaningless. This effort has not
succeeded, judging from the reports from Saigon.

NYT. 9/4/1967

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