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To: John Carragher who wrote (68302)	1/24/2003 8:38:23 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Perhaps part of the war was over oil? Naah, that was our "Altruistic" one. We had no selfish interest there. It was a combination of the Cold War, Sec of State Dulles desire to help out the Catholic south, and the Kennedy's need to redeem themselves for the Cuban Debacle. Then Johnson was the "Tar Baby."

To: John Carragher who wrote (68302)	1/24/2003 8:43:55 AM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

As i mentioned yesterday, when you brought it up, i remembered that oil was in fact an issue along with democracy, invasion by north, catholicism in south. Choose your poison. In the tapes LBJ admits to knowing it was hopeless and didnt want to be stigmatized by Republican right wingers that we had lost indo china. The democrats were tarred prevously with having lost china so politically LBJ couldnt let this happen so 50k amercians + millions of Vietnamese died for this. mike PS Please dont confuse neocons with oldycons whose views were pre-historic. Republicans other than northern republicans were violently anti communist, anti civil rights, pro right wing military regimes, and pro balance budget to a fault.