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To: Logain Ablar who wrote (169976)	6/15/2006 11:49:15 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) of 793868

The US didn't attack North Vietnam. The Communists (Vietminh) started attacking the French in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, after the end of World War II, and succeeded in getting them out after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu. Vietnam was partitioned into North and South Vietnam by the Geneva Accords of 1954, signed by the French and the Vietminh (no other representatives from the Vietnamese people.) The accords provided for a cease-fire and called for free elections in 1956, elections which would pool votes in both North and South Vietnam, in order to unify the country. South Vietnam refused to be bound by these accords because they did not want to be a party to electing Communists. The US supported South Vietnam in order to prevent the spread of Communism to the rest of Southeast Asia, pursuant to protocols to the SEATO treaty. The North Vietnamese attacked the South Vietnamese, our ally. US involvement was initially limited to military advisors sent in by President Kennedy. As the attacks on South Vietnam intensified, our involvement intensified. Does any of this ring any bells?

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