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U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta speaks to USNS Richard E. Byrd Chief Mate Fred Cullen while on a water taxi out to the ship docked at Vietnam's Cam Ranh Bay on June 3, 2012. Panetta arrived from Singapore on June 3 to visit a major base used by U.S. forces in the Vietnam War, as Washington seeks to deepen ties with its former enemy to counter a more assertive posture from China. Panetta was to visit the naval cargo ship currently at the port, the USNS Richard E. Byrd, which moves cargo for the naval fleet with a mostly civilian crew.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta reviews the guard of honor during a welcoming ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Hanoi June 4, 2012. Panetta is in Hanoi on a three-day visit to Vietnam from June 3 to 5.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vietnam's Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh speaks at a joint news conference in Hanoi June 4, 2012.
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Vietnam's Defence Minister Phung Quang Thanh looks at U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta at left during their joint news conference at the Defence Ministry in Hanoi June 4, 2012. Panetta returns the gaze at right.
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Reuters reports: The Vietnamese government on Monday gave a boost to the search for missing U.S. servicemen from the Vietnam War, telling visiting U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta they would open three previously closed sites to permit excavation for remains.
The announcement came as U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Vietnam Defense Minister Phung Quang Thanh exchanged long-held artifacts collected during the war -- including letters written by a U.S. soldier who was killed that had been kept and used as propaganda, and a small maroon diary belonging to a Vietnamese soldier. A U.S. service member took the journal back to the U.S. Full story.
Photos at right: Top: A picture is seen next to the diary which belonged to Vietnamese soldier Vu Dinh Doan, which was originally taken from Doan's body by U.S. Marine Robert Frazure following Operation Indiana in 1966, on a table at the Defence Ministry in Hanoi June 4, 2012. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta presented the diary to Vietnam's Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh during a news conference at the ministry.
Bottom: The personal letters of U.S. Army Sgt. Steve Flaherty, who was killed during the Vietnam war in 1969, are seen on a table at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) in Hanoi June 4, 2012. Vietnam's Defence Minister General Phung Quang Thanh presented the letters to U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a news conference at the Defence Ministry. Panetta is in Hanoi on a three-day visit to Vietnam from June 3 to 5.
More about the letters by Sgt. Flaherty
Vietnam has given U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta the personal letters of a soldier who was killed in the Vietnam war in 1969. Msnbc.com's Dara Brown reports.
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Well, well. so AmeriKKKa's newest secretary of war Leon 'Pinata' returns to the crime scene of AmeriKKK'a 2.9m massacred Vietnamese civilians by the US mass murderer in the 1970's. Must feel a little chill running down your greasy spine huh Senor Pinata? So, what does Messer Pinata come for? To deliver a check for $2,8b to help make the Vietnamese people whole again from those 100,000 gallons of Agent Orange toxins were dropped on the people of Vietnam (or) after the US Federal courts gave Vietnam a 'stiff middle Finger' in their litigation taken in 2009 for all the deformed, blind, spina biffida and exotic cancers that have terrorized the Vietnam people for the past 45 years because of this disaster the US committed against some pretty hapless agrarian people who 'couldn't fight back?' Not no, but 'hell no!' Hey, AmeriKKKa doesn't give a rats ass for the people they murder, maim and terrorize around the world. I mean, look at Iraq (1.4m massacred) and AF/PAK (Not there yet - but, some 300,000 innocents have been massacred by US/CIA drones over there 'looking for love in all the wrong places - as the song goes). So what does 'Super WOP' want with Vietnam? A base from which to operate when it decides to start murdering Chinese civilians, of course. I mean, you've heard that after savaging the Middle East (BTW: Still working on Iran and Syria 24/7, as we speak) the US intends on moving in (Using Tiawan, Vietnam and the Phillipine islands for cover) and begin terrorizing China - 'in their own back yard!!!!' (Talk about having 'Ostrich' sized huevos, huh Pilgrams? jajajaja). So here we are in the Tiajuana jail...err...err...err... I mean, making our (((moves))) on the Vietnamese people; a little bit jealous about how thay have reconstructed their country after a trillion jillion BTU's of cordite, white phospherous, napalm and US soldier gang-rapes, scalpings, sodomizings (Reminds us of Iraq, huh?) have left the country in ruins and desformed people still coming out of the cracks in the walls from all those residual dioxins contaminations that persist. So, what does 'Open Sesame' want? The entire harbour structures in Vietnam from which to 'look for trouble with China' - 'when the time comes,' of course! But, BE HAPPY - DON'T WORRY' the Great Satan isn't ready to make trouble - YET anywho. I mean, a thousand trillion$ in debt with the Chinese Visa company - the US want's to run up the bill a few trillions more - 'before they 'drop the gun' on China. And then, 'Katy lock the barn!' And then, 'Here come the 'Crusaders' (As 'W' used to say) - to liberate the SE Asian countries - (from their oil/gas and other precious resources, of course! Hehehehe) Well, I could go on and on - and then 'on' some more. But, let's wait for Senor Pinata to 'step on his dick' a couple of times before we work on chapter II of this (The rise and fall of the AmeriKKKan Reich novel) Shall we name it, 'The Agony and Ecstasy' of being the 'Great Crusader Satan' in this wicked AmeriKKKa of the the new millennium? Stand by folks. the best is yet to come - GASP! To be continued - soon (promise!).
From Senator Eugene McCarthy book (Ground Fog and Night)
My Lai Conversation
How old are you Vietnamese boy?
Six fingers, six years.
Why did you carry water to the wounded soldier, nowdead?
Your father.
Your father was enemy of free world.
Yu are also now enemy of free world.
Your mother!
Your mother also enemy of free world.
You go into ditch with your mother.
American politician has said:
It is better to kill you as a boy in the elephant grass of Vietnam,
That to have to kill you as a man in the rye grass of the USA.
You understand.
It's easier to die
Where you the names of the birds, the trees, and the grass.
Than in a strange country.
You will be number 128 in the body count for today.
High body count will make the Commander-in-Chief of free world much encouraged.
Good-bye, small six year old Vietnamese boy, enemy of free world.
And so, what else can be said. Thanks for that, Senator McCarthy. If you were alive today, I wonder what you would have said about Iraq war?