Next presenter: Dr. Chuong Chung, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at City College of San Francisco, and a native of Vietnam.

Dr. Chung spoke of the "Red Scare" as an overinflated sense of Soviet influence and expansion used to justify the war in South Vietnam, which involved propping up an upopular government, and trying to shape Vietnam with the "American Brand of Democracy." He compared this to the current occupation and government in Iraq. While the papers told of U.S. forces helping the poor South Vietnamese against an invasion from the communist north, most combat operations were carried out against South Vietnamese, which included indiscriminate bombing of villages, use of napalm, and deployment of Agent Orange (Dioxin) to destroy crops and fertile land. He told of U.S. troops using innocent vietnamese villagers for target practice, again echoed by stories coming out of Iraq.