Thieu

Kissinger diverted billions of dollars in Food for Peace, meant to feed the starving, to the Thieu and Lon Nol armies.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

U.S. military aid to Saigon in 1974-'75 was two to four times as great as Soviet and Chinese aid to the North Vietnamese, and the Thieu army was well supplied with ammunition and fuel up to the very end.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

U.S. military aid to Saigon in 1974-'75 was two to four times as great as Soviet and Chinese aid to the North Vietnamese, and the Thieu army was well supplied with ammunition and fuel up to the very end.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

An attempt is currently being made to build support for today's war-making in Afghanistan and Pakistan by claiming that the reason the U.S. lost Indochina was because it was "stabbed in the back" by a Congress that cut off aid to Thieu.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

Sorley's contention that the failure of the North Vietnamese 1972 offensive proved the Thieu army could stand on its own is particularly absurd.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

Congress in August 1974 only reduced military aid to Thieu from $1.2 billion to $700 million.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

Sorley himself quotes General Creighton Abrams, the head of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, as saying on this question of the B-52s and the tac air 'it's very clear to me that this (the Thieu) government would now have fallen, and this country would now be gone, and we wouldn't be meeting here today, if it hadn't been for the (U.S.)

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

The CIA estimated that U.S. military aid of $1.7 billion to Thieu in 1974 was four times the $400 million it estimated the North Vietnamese received from the Soviet Union and China.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

Sorley's book contends that the failure of the North Vietnamese spring 1972 offensive in South Vietnam proves that Thieu forces could have prevailed in April 1975.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010

The evidence is overwhelming that the Thieu regime lost to its enemies because it was a corrupt and unpopular police-state, and its troops were far less motivated to fight than those of the other side.

Fred Branfman: Hillary Clinton's Promoting Kissinger: An Insult to History Fred Branfman 2010