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To: steve harris who wrote (163389)	3/7/2003 11:26:14 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573456

RE:"Can you believe a Kennedy started our mess in Vietnam?" Or a Johnson...as a matter of fact many of the problems the US faces today stem back to LBJ. Arguably the worst President in US history.

To: steve harris who wrote (163389)	3/8/2003 1:49:47 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573456

Can you believe a Kennedy started our mess in Vietnam? I hate to disagree with you about history since you lived it. However, after you fled, I mean emigrated from post war Germany to Argentina, you probably were a little out of the loop. In any case, it seems a Kennedy wasn't responsible for the Vietnamese mess. It started, of course, with a Rep. president arrogantly screwing around with the world. In fact, it was Dwight who coined the term, the Domino Theory, in connection with Indochina. Very typical of the right, they correlate war with a child's game to make the war look oh so harmless. I bet it was a Rep. who came up with the GI Joe dolls of the 60s too..........prepare another generation for war. _____________________________________________________ pbs.org Battlefield Vietnam: A Brief History According to the terms of the Geneva Accords, Vietnam would hold national elections in 1956 to reunify the country. The division at the seventeenth parallel, a temporary separation without cultural precedent, would vanish with the elections. The United States, however, had other ideas. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles did not support the Geneva Accords because he thought they granted too much power to the Communist Party of Vietnam. Instead, Dulles and President Dwight D. Eisenhower supported the creation of a counter-revolutionary alternative south of the seventeenth parallel. The United States supported this effort at nation-building through a series of multilateral agreements that created the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). South Vietnam Under Ngo Dinh Diem Using SEATO for political cover, the Eisenhower administration helped create a new nation from dust in southern Vietnam. In 1955, with the help of massive amounts of American military, political, and economic aid, the Government of the Republic of Vietnam (GVN or South Vietnam) was born. The following year, Ngo Dinh Diem, a staunchly anti-Communist figure from the South, won a dubious election that made him president of the GVN. Almost immediately, Diem claimed that his newly created government was under attack from Communists in the north. Diem argued that the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV or North Vietnam) wanted to take South Vietnam by force. In late 1957, with American military aid, Diem began to counterattack. He used the help of the American Central Intelligence Agency to identify those who sought to bring his government down and arrested thousands. Diem passed a repressive series of acts known as Law 10/59 that made it legal to hold someone in jail if s/he was a suspected Communist without bringing formal charges.