The Texan President said....

[Spinaroonie]

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

 

[Linedrive]

"You can get more done with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone." Alphonse Capone

 

[Marxist]

"The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure."
-Lyndon B. Johnson

Isn't this the guy who also said, "Our purpose is peace. We have no military, political, or territorial ambitions in the area," and then proceeded to launch the U.S. into a long term 50,000 dead investment?

 

[sweet soft kiss]

Re: Re: The Texan President said....

Isn't this the guy who also said, "Our purpose is peace. We have no military, political, or territorial ambitions in the area," and then proceeded to launch the U.S. into a long term 50,000 dead investment?

Actually John Kennedy started our involvement in Vietnam...

Johnson esculated it...

and Nixon finally got us out of there....

 

[Lasher]

Re: Re: Re: The Texan President said....

Actually John Kennedy started our involvement in Vietnam...

Johnson esculated it...

and Nixon finally got us out of there....

If you want to get picky about it, it was Eisenhower that started US involvement in Vietnam.

LBJ also said:

"Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Vietnam’s aid."

 

[Marxist]

Re: Re: Re: The Texan President said....

Actually John Kennedy started our involvement in Vietnam...

Johnson esculated it...

and Nixon finally got us out of there....

Prior to Johnson's esculation (sp) very few Americans knew French Indochina / Vietnam existed.

Kennedy was a hawk dupe. Nixon, hardly a savior. It took him almost four years (he let Kissinger purposely bungle peace) to get "us" out of there.

The understanding of Vietnam gets less and less as the years go by...