<span>The animal that H o Chi Minh compared his army to is a tiger. He also compared the United States army to an elephant. "If the tiger ever pauses, the elephant will impale him on his mighty tusks. But the tiger will never pause and the elephant will d ie of exhaustion."
H o Chi Minh</span>
<span>H.o Chi Minh's army was compared to a tiger. H.o Chi Minh first developed as a blunt voice for Vietnamese freedom while living as a young fellow in France amid World War I. Enlivened by the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the Communist Party and set out to the Soviet Union.</span>
The message was intercepted by the British and passed on to the United States; its publication caused outrage and contributed to the U.S. entry into World War I.
