[Chengdu54]

A mistake from the start. From the first LBJ lie.

[imabadboy99]

McNamara and LBJ can burn in hell.

[TokarevM57]

......this is a snippet from Fred Red’s great website, “Fred on Everything”...he is a Purple Heart VietNam Marine, so he knows a lot about what he writes....

.....”The war in Vietnam was lost, of course, but it wasn’t in vain. It made unimaginable profits for the arms industry. Why do you think American wars last so long? If America wins the war, the money stops flowing. If it loses the war, the money stops. Keep the war going, and the money flows......”

60 thousand give or take American lives lost for what...? we now by clothes made in VietNam; we eat their imported shrimp; the country as repressive as it is is now a vacation destination....again, for what....??

[kawhill]

Yep, here was a lie:

President Johnson campaigned in the 1964 election with the promise not to escalate the war. “We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10,000 miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves,” he said.

[linMcHlp]

LBJ EGO (power) + Robert McNamara EGO (statistics)