Originally posted by /^Blackmagik^\
how so? perhaps you didn't comprehend my post correctly? the title of this thread is "It's official ... no WMD in Iraq" and is absed around the posted article from cnn.com. how exactly can this possibly be official when they are still finding things. the point of my post was to point out how making such a bold statement based on a news article is ridiculous when this article was on the same front page of cnn.com.
i guess subtlety owns you?
ehh ... I could've used a better subject for this thread.
Originally posted by Kestrel
The guy's name is Nguyen Van Thieu, he was president of South Vietnam from 1965-1973. He was very much a dictator and suppressed any dissent against him during the Vietnam War, and pretty much the only reason he became president was because he was anti-Communist, and the US liked that.
wasn't he later assasinated?