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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SalemsHex who wrote (23353)5/17/2004 11:05:26 AM
From: bentwayRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 81568
 
I think Johnson was honestly ashamed of the number of Americans he sent to death in Vietnam. Like Bush today, he'd been following the advice of a bunch of experts that kept assuring him "the tide would turn" and all he had to do was "stay the course". No American could conceive of losing a war to a tiny country like Vietnam. Our massive hubris kept us there until 58,000 Americans had died, and millions of Vietnamese. If we left, the Communists would take over the world. Deja Vu?



To: SalemsHex who wrote (23353)5/17/2004 5:30:18 PM
From: tontoRespond to of 81568
 
Right. AS simply lied because he thought he could get away with it.

Public opinion polls suggested that Johnson would have difficulty winning the 1968 presidential election. So in the spring of '68 he made an announcement on television that he wouldn't be a candidate for re-election.


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