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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: KLP who wrote (41243)8/7/2004 12:12:53 PM
From: American SpiritRead Replies (2) of 81568
 
Your Vietnam history leaves out two huge facts.
One, the Gulf Of Tonkin attack which gave LBJ the excuse to escalate in the first place was based on a complete LIE. This is in the Pentagon Papers. In other words, North Vietnam never attacked us but we claimed they were a huge threat to American security. Sound familiar?

Second, you leave out the fact that JFK was planning to end the war and as soon as he decided to do so he was assassinated in Texas.

Third, let's commemorate 55,000 US dead, hundreds of thousands wounded or driven crazy and millions of Vietnamese and others killed or destroyed. Plus huge amounts of fertile land, forests, waterways, wildlife, etc. Basically we destroyed half the country to try and root out an army of guerilla fighters. The Vietnam War was not only wrong, it was poorly planned, lied about and was a huge waste of lives and resources. WHo is to blame? LBJ, Nixon and all the others on the rightwing and the Bushie type indsutrial military corporate special interests who made billions off that war.

So who stood up to expose the horrors and lies of this war and helped finally stop the madness and carnage? John Kerry for one. A hero during the war and after it.

We all ought to thank him. I know I do. I was 17 at the time and might have been drafted and killed for an unworthy cause if that war had continued. Thousands of others like me would have been too. Nixon did not want to end the war he was forced to by public opinion. And public opinion was largely swayed by Kerry and many others like him who dared to stand up and tell the truth.
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