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Clinton Finally Goes to Viet Nam November 17, 2000
After dodging the draft 30 years ago to avoid going to Viet Nam, President Bill Clinton has finally traveled to the site of America’s greatest defeat brought about by draft dodgers and war protesters that included the present Commander-in-Chief. The disgraced president, who was impeached in 1998 after lying under oath about his adulterous affair with Monica Lewinsky, held talks with top Communist leaders in Hanoi Friday as he began the first Vietnam visit by a U.S. President since the end of the Vietnam War. The admitted perjurer’s visit to the hardline Communist dictatorship comes in the midst of a presidential election debacle in the U.S. in which Clinton’s successor to the tarnished office of the presidency hangs on a second recount in Florida that may be determined by a few hundred dangling chads. However, the constitutional crisis in America did not deter the philandering Clinton, who admitted to smoking dope while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford but claimed he did not inhale, from making this pilgrimage to one of the few communist countries left in the world. In an address broadcast nationwide, he urged Vietnam's younger generation to accept globalization and an open society as the keys to national progress. Urging reconciliation between the former enemies, Mr. Clinton said the two countries cannot change their painful past but can change the future for the better by working together. The groveling commander-in-chief hailed the "staggering sacrifice" of the Vietnamese people during the war but did not mention the staggering sacrifice made by America in defending the Christian South Vietnamese people against the atheistic communist aggression of the north. The U.S. lost over 58,000 soldiers during the war who were unable to dodge the draft like the soon-to-be ex-president. "We will continue to offer our help and to ask for your help as we both honor our commitment to do whatever we can for as long as it takes to achieve the fullest possible accounting of our loved ones," Clinton told the communists. Over 2000 American servicemen remain unaccounted for. Many American prisoners-of-war died under torture in the brutal prison camps operated by the communists in the Hanoi area where the president spoke, and the communists covered up their crimes by destroying the bodies. Clinton, who lifted a long-standing trade embargo against Viet Nam in 1994, normalized relations with Hanoi the following year, and pushed for a landmark trade accord that was signed last July, will return to America on Monday. At that point, the lame-duck president will have exactly 2 months left in office.
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