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Vaughn was a big supporter of mass-murder Ho Chi-Minh
posted by Benton12STAFFMOD on December 4, 2020 at 10:44 AM
In the 1960s this actor from 'Man from Uncle' was in real life in a political triumvirate! He and Sen. Bobby Kennedy and superstar actor Marlon Brando were close mutual friends and all were heavily against America fight with North Vietnam and stopping NV from conquering South Vietnam! NV leader Ho Chi Minh had committed a horrible mass-murdering on landlords in a land reform in the 1950's. This deadly land reform meant nothing to the triumvirate!
PS Even Ken Burns showed in his own book on Vietnam how Ho had committed a highly brutal act of mass-murder in the 1950's! See my other postings too!
Reply by bratface
on December 4, 2020 at 12:04 PM
He opposed the Vietnam War along with many others! That doesn't make him a supporter of Ho Chi Minh! We had no right to insinuate ourselves into their fight. There were 1,353,000 total deaths (Military & civilian) because of that conflict & in the end, nothing really changed!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_Mother_for_Peace
Reply by Benton12
on December 4, 2020 at 2:01 PM
I stand by everything I wrote!
Reply by tmdb82469342
on December 6, 2020 at 3:37 AM
Napoleon Solo is the coolest American spy ever.
Robert Vaughn gets a pass.
Reply by Benton12
on December 6, 2020 at 6:16 AM
Forget it. The coolness does not make up for his gaps in political ideology, humanity towards the unbelievably victimized landlords and so on.
Reply by tmdb82469342
on December 6, 2020 at 2:24 PM
He also starred in the second best Superman movie.
He gets a double pass!
Reply by Benton12
on December 6, 2020 at 4:35 PM
It was third best and quit being silly about a very serious subject. It was stressed by politicians in the US that Ho had been mass-murdering to landlords. Kennedy knew it blasted well and so did Vaughn!
Reply by tmdb82469342
on December 8, 2020 at 5:03 AM
And then there is this... https://youtu.be/jHdl5X3HtQU
What a man, what a legacy!
God bless you Robert Vaughn and may you Rest In Peace.
Reply by Benton12
on December 8, 2020 at 5:16 AM
Vaughn lacked compassion. Hard to think of all those dead landlords without feeling something.
Reply by Benton12
on December 8, 2020 at 5:19 AM
I love God. Vaughn helped protect the NV leader who took true Holy salvation away from so many North Vietnamese left alive during his reign of terror. Ironic choice of words, Gorman! Really so!
Reply by DRDMovieMusings
on August 28, 2023 at 12:42 PM
Right on, @bratface. Ho Chi Minh was a freedom fighter trying to free his people from French colonialism and oppression. USA got dragged into immorally supporting its French ally and they all had their asses handed to them because they had no moral right to be there and the Vietnamese were fighting for the right thing - freedom, a human right.
And there is something that changed - Vietnam won its rightful independence.
Reply by Benton12
on September 4, 2023 at 1:59 PM
I stand by what I wrote.
Reply by Benton12
on November 27, 2024 at 10:37 AM
In his ( Vaughn's) autobio he writes in detail somewhat of Vietnam and never mentions the landlord slaughter by Ho!
Reply by Benton12
on November 28, 2024 at 2:09 PM
Wrongly put. Never bringing up at all the fact that Ho was a brutal mass-murderer in the 1950s was failing to give justification to the USA and Australia for fighting Ho's deadly forces and stopping him from getting South Vietnam and doing likewise there. Your statement is at a loss because far, far too many books describing the Vietnam War causes (including tons of school textbooks!) completely fail to ever bring up Ho's enormous act of unnecessary carnage. It is very little part of the historical record!
Reply by Benton12
on November 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Broader geopolitical, you? No way. If the defacto leader you are at war with is a brutal mass-murderer that is a very vital fact of the war! And it's NO technicality!