JUST TODAY, PRESIDENT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA SHOWED EITHER HIS TRUE SELF OR AN ABSOLUTE IGORANCE OF HISTORY WHEN HE STATED THAT, "HO CHI MINH WAS INSPIRED BY OUR FOUNDERS." HOW DARE THAT MAN WHO HOLDS THE OFFICE ONCE HELD BY WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON AND LINCOLN USE THE NAME OF HO CHI MINH IN THE SAME BREATH WITH THEM. OBAMA IS EITHER SHOWING HIS TRUE BELIEFS OR HAS A TOTAL IGORANCE OF HISTORY. HO CHI MINH WAS A CRUEL TYRANT WHO EXCUTED TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HIS OWN POEPLE AND EVEN SENT HIS ARMY TO CRUSH THOSE REFUSING TO PAY TAXES TO HIS REGIME---OBAMA WOULD LIKE THIS FOR SURE. BELOW ARE A FEW FACTS ABOUT HO CHI MINH, A COMMUNIST WHO IS EVIDENTLY ADMIRED BY BARACK OBAMA BECAUSE OF WHAT HE LEARNED FROM THOSE FAR LEFTEST PROFESSORS HE SOUGHT OUT WHO FILLED HIS HEAD WITH REVISIONIST HISTORY AND TAUGHT HIM HOW TO HATE AMERICA AS THEY DID.
From a 1968 Reader’s Digest piece on the rule of Ho Chi Minh:
The terror had its real beginning when Red dictator Ho Chi Minh consolidated his power in the North. More than a year before his 1954 victory over the French, he launched a savage campaign against his own people. In virtually every North Vietnamese village, strong-arm squads assembled the populace to witness the “confessions” of landowners. As time went on, businessmen, intellectuals, school teachers, civic leaders — all who represented a potential source of future opposition — were also rounded up and forced to “confess” to “errors of thought.” There followed public “trials,” conviction and, in many cases, execution. People were shot, beheaded, beaten to death; some were tied up, thrown into open graves and covered with stones until they were crushed to death, Ho has renewed his terror in North Vietnam periodically. Between 50,000 and 100,000 are believed to have died in these blood-baths — in a coldly calculated effort to discipline the party and the masses. To be sure, few who escape Ho’s terror now seem likely to tempt his wrath. During the 1950s, however, he had to quell some sizeable uprisings in North Vietnam — most notably one that occurred in early November 1956, in the An province, which included Ho’s birthplace village of Nam Dan. So heavily had he taxed the region that the inhabitants finally banded together and refused to meet his price. Ho sent troops to collect, and then sent in an army division, shooting. About 6,000 unarmed villagers were killed. The survivors scattered, some escaping to the South. The slaughter went largely unnoticed by a world then preoccupied with the Soviet Union’s rape of Hungary.