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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (734266)	3/28/2006 2:53:19 PM
From: Srexley	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

"I'll try to be brief...." Thank you. "and that he had made a decision to halt the increase in our commitment of troops to South Vietnam, and begin a draw-down, just a few short weeks before his death." Any record of this, or is it speculation? "Looks like your batting average hasn't improved any, Scott. :)" It actually went down. That said, I appreciate your answer. I have to point out though that I can't ascertain the accuracy of your answer. The "drawdown, just a few weeks before his death sounds like conspiracy theory stuff. Don't believe any quotes attributed to Kennedy would back that up. But I asked for your opinion, and now I have it. My batting average is only .950 with you now. ;-)

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (734266)	3/28/2006 2:57:21 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Didn't JFK cure the common cold and Cancer, just before his death and it didn't get out?

To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (734266)	3/28/2006 4:07:34 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

to something like a couple of hundred* military 'trainers' and 'advisors', if memory serves me correctly.* No. It was many more than a "couple hundred" . And in past posts I have named several sources documenting this, but the best source is my wife and mother in law, whose respective father and husband was ONE of those 'advisors' in Siagon. From 16,000 troops at the end of the Kennedy Administration, the U.S. commitment grew to 184,000 troops by the end of 1965 and reached a peak of 537,000 in the last year (1968) of the Johnson Administration. faculty.smu.edu During the Kennedy administration, the U.S. military advisory group in South Vietnam steadily increased, with McNamara's concurrence, from just a few hundred to about 17,000. U.S. involvement ... defenselink.mil and begin a draw-down, just a few short weeks before his death. I don't believe you have ever documented that have you?