To: ansel12
It’s a total myth Kennedy caused Viet Nam.
He advocated advisors only.
15 posted on
11/16/2013 10:16:23 PM PST by
djf
(Global warming is turning out to be a bunch of hot air!!)
To: djf
He advocated advisors only. LOL, Eisenhower had a few hundred advisers there, we had been there since the 1940s, Kennedy sent in 16,000 troops.
18 posted on
11/16/2013 10:29:21 PM PST by
ansel12
( Democrats-"a party that since antebellum times has been bent on the dishonoring of humanity.)
To: djf; ansel12
“It’s a total myth Kennedy caused Viet Nam.
He advocated advisors only.”
So goes the myth, djf.
My dad’s office partner was the Pentagon’s small arms expert in that day. He returned from a tour in Vietnam in ‘62 and said that “they may not be calling it a war but we are using up ammunition just like it is one.” That was well before Johnson and there was plenty of fighting going on that involved American personnel.
And then Kennedy found the President of South Vietnam hard to control and wanted him gone. The result was the assassination of President Diem and his family in early November 1963. This left Vietnam rudderless and unable to fight. Johnson inherited that mess and was the one who eventually sent in American ground combat troops but it was Kennedy’s foolish elimination of President Diem that set that all in motion.
23 posted on
11/16/2013 11:00:48 PM PST by
Pelham
(Obamacare, the vanguard of Obammunism)
To: djf
Ike sent the first “advisers” to S. Viet Nam.
There were American military reps in Saigon in 1958...
65 posted on
11/17/2013 5:56:38 AM PST by
Eric in the Ozarks
("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
To: djf
actually, Truman got us into Vietnam
82 posted on
11/17/2013 9:11:45 AM PST by
stylin19a
(Obama -> Fredo smart)
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