Dear Wall Street Journal Editor:
 
It was with satisfaction I read Emeritus Editor Robert Bartley's Thinking Things Over piece on the subject of whether Iraq is another Vietnam on p. A15.
 
I remember the night of April 30, 1975, when I as a teenager lay flat on the balcony of my home watching the hours-long stream of Soviet-made T-54 tanks entering to occupy Saigon. Yet after my family had successfully fled Hanoi communist-ruled tyrannical Vietnam to America, it seems like the Vietnam War according to the American liberal elites was won by a ragtag army of Vietcong guerillas defeating the "corrupt and coward" South Vietnamese ARVN. On the contrary, the ARVN, as Editor Bartley succinctly recounted in his piece, succeeded magnificently in repelling the unpopular Vietcong Force in 1968 and the murderous North Vietnamese conventional onslaught in 1972.
 
As well told as R. Bartley's account was, I wish he could have included the documented chemical biological warfare conducted by Hanoi in Laos in the late 1970s and the early 1980s. Moreover he could have included the documented bloodbath (according to UC Berkeley professors) of over 100,000 people executed by the Hanoi communists in the aftermath of the War and the continuing tyranny at the hands of the unelected Hanoi regime in contravention to the requirements of the 1973 Paris Peace Accords. It was a major stain in American history that the peoples of Indochina were abandoned ignominiously by their Free World allies.
 
As a small step towards relieving the repression by the Hanoi brutal dictatorship, it is past time that the US Senate passes the Vietnam Human Rights Act (sponsored by US Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey) and that the Bush administration implements the call by the US Commission on International Religious Freedom to have Vietnam designated a "country of particular concern", which then would lead possibly to sanctions.
 
Sincerely,
S