Consequences of the CIA operation to  

                  Make Vietnam a Democracy

   The U.S. after WWII backed the French in their efforts to
re-impose their colonial rule over Vietnam.  When that failed
the CIA tried to create a government in conflict with the aspirations
of the vast majority of the Vietnamese.  The full-scale war was a 
direct result and the consequences to the Vietnamese and Americans
were devastating. Some of those details are listed below.

   Now the new DCI Deutch, and the unofficial ambassador for
Military and Covert Intervention, Richard Haass, of the Council 
on Foreign Relations (CFR) push for more military interventions and 
CIA covert operations. Today the most active is the paramilitary 
operation to destroy Gaddafi of Libya.

   This of course is only the first step in the Deutch/Haass/CFR
era to organize world governments into systems acceptable to them. 

   We should anticipate further covert operations in China and the
possibility exists that if those are unsuccessful - then a
paramilitary operation not unlike those that led to the Vietnam 
War. We already see the media demonizing the Chinese - they torture
orphans, they have bad prison systems, they ship weapons to
other countries, etc. This sort of conditioning of world
opinion precedes and accompanies all such type operations.

Ralph McGehee
CIABASE

  Vietnam. Per dr. Stephen e. Ambrose: we dropped more bombs on indochina
  Than all targets in whole human history put together.... Indochina contains
  Enough bomb craters to occupy an area greater than Connecticut's 5000
  Square miles....we have released more than 100 million pounds of chemical
  Herbicides over more than 4 million acres....two American medical doctors
  Estimate that svn [alone] has suffered 4 million casualties. Prouty, f.
  (1992). Jfk: the cia, Vietnam and the plot to assassinate john f. Kennedy
  55

  Vietnam. The Viet cong were winning because they were leading a social
  Revolution. Reasons for staying in vn cited by mcnaughton as 70% to avoid a
  Humiliating defeat; 20% to keep svn (and the adjacent) territory from
  Chinese hands; and, 10% to permit the people of vn to enjoy a better, freer
  Way of life. Sheehan, n. (1988). A bright shining lie 518-9, 535

  Vietnam,  50-75  3 million vnese soldiers and civilians died in vn war,
  Defoliants and other chemicals turned 2 million into invalids. More than 4
  Million civilians and soldiers sustained injuries. 1 million of dead were
  Nvnese soldiers, 2 million were svnese soldiers and civilians. Info from
  Vnese gvt. Washington times 6/23/94 a15

  Vietnam,  50-75  See "the legacy of the vn war," in the indochina news
  Letter. Total Cambodians, Laotians, vnese and American dead 2,282,000;
  Wounded 3,200,000; 15,500,000 tons firepower used by U.S. Of that total
  12,000,000 used in svn alone. U.S. Used 6,000,000 tons of munitions in WWII
  To compare. "Total firepower expended by us and allies probably exceeds the
  Total firepower expended by humanity in all wars." financial cost of war to
  U.S. Between 350 to 900 billion. Indochina news letter 12/82 p12

  Vietnam,  54-75  War left 1,724,562 people dead, 2,720,642 wounded, and
  13,000,000 refugees. U.S. Dropped 7.1 million tons bombs and sprayed 75.5
  Million litres defoliant on svn. 303,475 U.S. Troops wounded. More than
  4,900 helicopters and 3,700 warplanes downed -- 1,100 over nvn. Total U.S.
  Costs war range from $378 to 900 billion dollars. Levant, v. (1986). Quiet
  Complicity: Canadian involvement in the Vietnam war 46