A2 LL - CUPCAKES REPORT ON VIETNAM MODEL SPEECH

Friends we should end this war and bring our boy's back home.


The military and the hearts and minds campaign has failed.


The government and our military still believe that this war will be won in the villages and rural districts of the country.


And still they believe it will be won not through force of arms but through ideas.


But this idea is old and tired.


We can see this in the many names it has been called. They are cold names. Names that ring of deceit and lies. New Life Hamlets. Hearts and Minds.


There is still a religious zeal about this campaign to transform the minds of the people of Vietnam.


Ladies and gentlemen it is time to realise we have failed.


The old ways of winning wars is over.


Our goal was to destroy Communism and stop its toxic ideas from spreading to other South East Asian countries.


But we have failed.


And no one wants to talk about it anymore.


Victory comes with a high price. But we still have not received any benefits.


As tax payers, home owners and citizens we have not seen any dividends from this investment. We have waited far too long.


We have watched this war from our homes descend into a dirty and repulsive war. Undertaken without care or moral purpose.


Friends, the war became more brutal and violent as each year passed.


And still the war of ideas is considered far more attractive to the American government and its agencies.


Remember well friends this is not just a war against Communism but a war embedding American values into this country.


The military campaign is dead. But this second war of thoughts and ideas has been seen as positive and attractive.


But it is old and tired. And difficult to see in action.


One needs to go out into the countryside to see it in action and to experience it at first hand.


But before you are let out you need to be briefed.


It is not an ordinary briefing. It is intense. Lengthy and happens two or three times.


We should call it what it truly is. Brainwashing. Mind manipulation. So that when you go out and visit the Hearts and Minds programme you will only see it dimly.


You will be bombarded with facts and figures, graphs and charts. Statistics. They are lies.


They are government propaganda trying to hide the fact that this government has failed. We have failed.


This war must end.


Let's bring the boy's back home. Now!
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