Posted: 11/30/2023 12:48:13 PM EDT
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I have. I'm your huckleberry. Somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 died at sea fleeing Viet Nam post war alone. That's just at sea.
Not including refugees perishing in refugee camps, or military casualties, or civillian casualties from the bombing campaign.
As to the war istelf? According to Wikipedia, "The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 966,000 to 3 million. Some 275,000–310,000 Cambodians, 20,000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict."
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You think several million Vietnamese were killed? Have you read any actual history?
I have. I'm your huckleberry. Somewhere between 200,000 and 600,000 died at sea fleeing Viet Nam post war alone. That's just at sea. Not including refugees perishing in refugee camps, or military casualties, or civillian casualties from the bombing campaign. As to the war istelf? According to Wikipedia, "The war exacted an enormous human cost: estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed range from 966,000 to 3 million. Some 275,000–310,000 Cambodians, 20,000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U.S. service members also died in the conflict." The late R.J. Rummel, who professionally studied the various statistics of government-caused murder, dealt with the subject of Vietnamese dead here. While acknowledging that this area was perhaps the most difficult to decipher of his global studies on the subject, he came up with 3.8 Million excess deaths from 1945-1987. Certainly not all, or even most, came as a result of US action. But the area certainly suffered horribly during that period. I look forward to learning more about Kissinger in this thread.
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