Reperations

So when are the US going to pay war reparations to Vietnam?

>>1
They already have.

slowpoke?

the vietnam vets i know are still waiting....

>>2
They have? When and how much (and source plz)?

>>5
jfgi

>>4
reparations, moron

Vietnam was forced to pay the loans taken by the Saigon regime during the war, the sum of 140 million dollars. They had to do this to be allowed to get loans from the IMF. Yes, thats right. Vietnam has payed reparations to the US. Its perverse and absurd, but thats the world we live in, justice is long dead.

I think I know what you guys are talking about, and even specifically what instance during the war... but still, don't you think this idea is a liiitle stupid?

I mean fuck, I turned 18 like a year ago.  I clearly had nothing to do with the war, yet I'm going to have to shoulder a larger tax/deficit/inflationary burden (depending on how you want to finance the reparations), due to the decisions made by a bunch of dumb fucks who were born prior to me.  In effect, I'd be being taxed for something that I had nothing whatsoever to do with...

>>9
Well, a war criminal in Hauge is fine too. Hmmm, i pick Henry "da GooKillah" Kissinger! So its a deal then? You get of the fine of starting an illegal war, murdering civilians by the millions and  poisoning the countryside with chemical weapons which still kills people, if you fork over the fuckers responsible who are still alive. We are magnanimous since we put them before the international crime court (which does not have the capital punishment) instead for some peoples court in vietnam where the slaughters would be tortured abu ghraib style. But thats because we are civilized.  

>>10 Aren't a lot of those who are responsible for our actions in Vietnam dead?

There are still some war criminals alive. These assholes tend to be long lived...

>>12
oh noes, granpa is war crimonol

"Starting an illegal war?"  That'd be when North Vietnam invaded the sovereign nation of South Vietnam in 1956, AMIRITE?

>>14
Generally you're not invited to the war until your citizens or soldiers get attacked. 
If by your logic, the US should have been attacked by Western Europe for violating the sovereignty of Iran, Nicaragua, Cuba, and most recently, Iraq.
Who made America the world police? If you cite your strength then you give justification for any strong nation to attack a weaker one.
Claiming that the North Vietnamese attacked your ships, when they actually didn't, and wasting thousands of US and Vietnamese lives as a consequence could be considered "illegal".

>>15
SEATO treaty.  US was obligated to treat attacks on South Vietnam (along with South Korea, Thailand, Laos, and other allies in that area) as attacks on itself.

>>16
But didnt the US attack Laos during the war? Oh Noes, another civil war!!!

>>16
South Vietnam was running a raid against North Korea and US warships were casually in the area, read your gulf of Tonkin history. Under the circumstances, the North Koreans would have had every reason to believe the US warships were part of the South Vietnamese raid.

>>16

What a fucking idiot. South Korea, South Vietnam, and Laos were never in the SEATO treaty. Stop trying to act like you know what you're talking about.