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Filuwaúrdjan
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« on: October 14, 2004, 01:38:20 PM »

Vietnam was LBJ's fault? How exactly?
If you must blame a President, blame Eisenhower.
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2004, 10:04:20 AM »

As always, there's more than one person that has to be blamed...
The Eisenhower administration certainly created the problem. LBJ certainly vastly increased US involvement.

While LBJ vastly increased U.S involvement in Vietnam, I'd guess that pretty much every other President would have done the same thing (besides he was ignorant as far as foriegn policy went, and did what his advisors told him to do).

I blame the French for Vietnam... and Cold War paranoia... and... and... and...
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Filuwaúrdjan
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« Reply #2 on: October 15, 2004, 10:18:08 AM »

The French? The French did have the good sense of pulling out in 54. (Of course they needn't have gone back in in 1945...but that's nowt to do with the cold war and all with colonialism...although that they were encouraged to do so by the Truman administration is a result of the Cold War...)
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Only skinned? I'm pretty sure that fire would have been used somewhere...
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