OT RIP Ted Kennedy
TammyM wrote:
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>> How long will you be singing the "Bush did it song"? Since the Kennedy
>> name is in play you do know for example that it was Kennedy's brother
>> who got us into the Vietnam War with a planned no win position where
>> the only outcome was lots of military suppliers made lots of money?
>> Nothing new began or ended with Bush.
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> Wasn't it the Eisenhower administration that initially sent "advisers"
> to Vietnam? Maybe I'm misremembering that, it's early and I haven't yet
> had my coffee.
Wasn't it also the Eisenhower administration that helped to end the
civil war in Vietnam by dividing the country in two with the promise of
a plebiscite on reunification, and then backed the South's crooked
regime when they refused to hold the promised election because they knew
that the north would win?
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