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Old 04-20-2013, 03:03 PM   #108
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very little in their stated goals and purposes had anything to do with Vietnam...they used it as a recruiting tool....took advantage of a crisis... and their greatest interest in the war was that they shared idealogical and political orientation with our enemies....
The war was the engine behind the radicalization. This wasn't a bunch of communists looking for a cause, their behavior was a by-product.

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