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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (2376)	5/9/2006 11:53:09 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224698

LBJ and Nixon were to blame for Vietnam. Kennedy was not. Kennedy never would have escalated, especially based on a bunch of lies. In fact, Kennedy was "winning" that war by cleverly using Green Berets to organize hills tribesmen to keep the North Vietnamese out. Now, many people (including me) say that both Kennedys were murdered because they wanted to end the Vietnam War. There were other reasons, like the fact they wanted to bounce J. Edgar Hooover, but it was the mega-hawks and rightwing autocrats who killed them. Only ones who could have pulled it off. Martin Luther King too. MLK was a threat to their war. Yes, LBJ had some good sides to him but he also had a dark side. Escalating that war was wrong and evil. Plus, he was much too closely allied to a certain company Brown + Root which profited from war. It is now known as Halliburton.

To: Oeconomicus who wrote (2376)	5/9/2006 2:56:21 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 224698

AsS is nutball. Kennedy DID start the escalation, maybe not in a BIG way, but he, in fact, did so. 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. defenselink.mil 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