Last week, President Obama said that Ho Chi Minh, the brutal Communist dictator of Viet Nam was just following Thomas Jefferson, the main writer of our Declaration of Independence. Of course, Obama left out the parts of savage butchering of anybody who disagreed with the communists, the torture prison camps and the taking away of basic freedoms.
Now, Obama says that South Korea and it's allies actually won the Korean War.
From the Washington Times: As the first U.S. President to participate in a Korean Armistice commemoration, Barack Obama declared on Saturday the war was “no tie” but a “victory.” He contrasted South Korea’s “vibrant democracy” and dynamic economy “to the repression and poverty of the North.”
That undoubtedly is true. Yet peace remains elusive.
Sixty years ago, on July 27, 1953, representatives of the United Nations Command (UNC), the North Korean People’s Army, and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army signed the Armistice Agreement to end the Korean War. No words were exchanged and no handshakes. South Korean representatives refused to sign or attend, and only grudgingly agreed to stop fighting.
The Armistice was not a peace treaty but a cease-fire. The conflict to that point had claimed the lives of 36,573 American soldiers and 137,899 South Korean military personnel. Western sources estimate the North Korean People’s army suffered 215,000 killed and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army 400,000. Recent scholarship puts the full death toll on all sides at just over 1.2 million.
The value of the Armistice in ending open warfare cannot be underestimated. But it did not end the war.
Nearly a million troops – North Korean, South Korean and American, are arrayed on both sides of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) with advanced weaponry on multiple bases. And there have been wholesale violations of the Armistice from the beginning.
Read more: http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/table-talk-redux/2013/jul/28/korean-armistice-60-years-later/#ixzz2aOk03bH1
Yes, South Korea is doing ok for it's self, but they live in constant fear of the bat shit crazy North Korean dictators. Is that part of a victory?
Millions on the North Korean side are destitute, starving, in prison, being tortured while the leaders of North Korea are living the life of luxury. Is that part of the victory Obama claims?
North Korea from time to time threaten to make a nuclear bomb, even shooting off some missiles and the U.S. and South Korea run to the U.N. like crybabies hoping they denounce North Korea and maybe put on some sanctions- which have never worked. Is that part of the victory, Herr Obama?
Maybe victory for South Korea happened when North Korea shut down part of the de-militarized zone-Kaesong-, an area that was actually working, putting thousands out of work- is that victory?
Like most politicians, Obama lies, but it seems like he has taken it to a new level when he is apparently now rewriting history to appease his communist friends and anybody else- all 5 of them, who actually care what Obama says.
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