Vietnam Fatigue

I'm experiencing Vietnam Fatigue. Every day I turn on the news and hear debate about the Vietnam War, something I thought we had settled 30 years ago or so. *sigh*

It's gotten bad enough that I don't even care about some of the bigger stories that are coming out in the press now about the candidates and 'Nam.

For example:
CNN is reporting that Dick Cheney spent 2 months in Hanoi negotiating contracts for Halliburton to handle the food service and laundry service for the Hanoi Hilton and a chain of 6 other POW camps. Apparently CNN has some proof, in the form of documentation, but experts are calling that into question since they're written in crayon and have the name Brittany on them.

FoxNews has been running a story that John Edwards was Pol Pot's operating legal counsel in Cambodia during the Khmer Rougue, and actually fought in three skirmishes between Cambodian forces and NVA regulars along the border. They've also claimed that Edwards represented an NVA regular in a civil case when he slipped on a poorly constructed part of the Ho Chi Min trail, but that's at this point unsubstantiated.

After that story from FoxNews, Air America Radio, America's primary source for liberal radio countered with the story that Bush's actual job in the Texas ANG and later in the Alabama ANG was to bomb Mexico under orders from Poppy and the CIA to take America's attention away from Vietnam. They played a radio clip where W called Mexico part of 'el eje latino del mal estupendo'. Unfortunately, the shadow war against Mexico went poorly for the Americans, so it hasn't come to light until now. Apparently the devestation and bloodshed were just horrifying.

Which brings us to the most shocking story. It came to my attention on the the Sean Hannity Show that Kerry spent a delusional 3 weeks in Bangkok, high on angel dust, screaming about Laotian insurgents, and slaughtering Thai prostitutes in the back of a VW minibus. Democrats cried foul, saying this is a typical right-wing smear campaign engineered by Karl Rove, but some Texas businessmen have come forward with statments from 48 people who claim to have been in the minibus at the time. Their evidence is still being coroborated.

I would have, of course, been shocked when I heard these stories any other time in the news, but because of the Vietnam fatigue, I just don't care. But I'll keep you informed if I hear any more about these stories.