Some Words of Advice to the Commander-in-Chief
What you Don’t Know Might Hurt your Country
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In 1999, after reading Le Tat Dieu’s first book, “Letters to Bloomington, Illinois”, Mrs. Helen K. Copley, the Publisher of the San Diego Union Tribune, commented: “Your manuscript offers a great deal of wisdom to the people of America.” The wisdom Mrs. Copley found then was an unintentional byproduct of Le Tat Dieu's recollections about his life during the Vietnam War. In this new book, he expands on the ideas of the last one to present the lessons of the Iraq War for America's leaders of today and tomorrow. As a writer and journalist who had fought with America as a member of the South Vietnamese army, he shares with readers an in-depth understanding of how the Iraq War became such a quagmire and how the United States can avoid such disasters in the future.
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"Your manuscript (Letters to Bloomington, Ill.) offers a great deal of wisdom to the people of America."
—Helen K. Copley, Publisher of the San Diego Union Tribune
Some Words of Advice to the Commander-in-Chief shares insight from a former Vietnamese officer whose thorough research has provided him with an in-depth understanding of how the Iraq War became such a quagmire and how the United States can avoid such disasters in the future.
Long-time immigrant Le Tat Dieu worked as a writer and journalist in Vietnam and fought with the Americans as a member of the South Vietnamese army. As a result, he has an interesting perspective on the Iraq War. While presenting a simple and clear analysis of the war, he reveals the ignorant and shocking miscalculations by former President George W. Bush and members of his administration. As Le Tat Dieu exposes the horrifically wrong premises that motivated the actions of Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Bremer, and many others, he examines the consequences of invading Iraq and the eventual occupation which no current or future United States President should ignore.
About the Author
Le Tat Dieu is a well-known writer and poet of the Vietnamese language. He immigrated with his family to America in 1975 when the North Vietnamese defeated the South Republic of Vietnam. He is retired and living in Santee, California.