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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: American Spirit who wrote (2374)5/9/2006 10:40:29 AM
From: Oeconomicus  Read Replies (2) of 224699
 
"it was because the rightwing had totally discredited itself by then and was supporting that stupid, dishonest bloody war in Vietnam."

You moron. Kennedy got us into that war and Johnson escalated it - on false pretenses. Johnson also won reelection by promising to reduce US involvement while painting Goldwater as a dangerous rightwing war-monger, then escalated further - to over 200k US troops the very next year and over a half million by the time Nixon took office in 1969. Nixon, the right-winger, ended the war.

You were almost right the other day when you said "all I know is ..."
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