But about 21,000 died in Vietnam while Nixon was president.
Kerry should have compared the number dead when Nixon took office with the number dead when Nixon left office.
Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for more deaths than Johnson was? Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for deaths that occurred in 1968?
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" Did Kerry deliberately try to make it look like Nixon was responsible for deaths that occurred in 1968?"
Why not? He has the evil Nixon sending troops into Cambodia that same year, when he was not yet president. Facts, to Kerry, are not stuborn things at all.
Better yet, does this mean that Kerry, who has a secret plan for ending the war in Iraq, bears total and complete responsibility for the deaths of soldiers in Iraq?
Would sound accurate to me if he had had his way: start the war, surrender alongside French experts, use no weapons capable of actually killing the enemy, rely on the French for intelligence, ...
Kerry is a pathological liar.
Here are the links to a few of my many John Kerry is a liar posts.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1163131/posts?page=11608#11608
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1185436/posts?page=82#82
Kerry doesn't come out and directly say the 16,000 died while Nixon was president.
But Kerry does his best to make sure people will think Nixon and Nixon's "secret plan for peace" were responsible for all those extra deaths.
And the way he flip-flops makes one wonder who is pulling the strings. Along with that piece of fluff of an ambulance chaser, I can't help but wonder if the Democrats will pull a Toricelli. So what if the deadline has passed. They already found out that the judges will let them flaunt the laws.
If you add the five years that we were involved in combat while Nixon was in the White House, you get 20,863.
Which is greater?
Vietnam was a Kennedy-Johnson disaster that Nixon had tried to salvage but utiimately just attempted clean up the mess that they started. I voted for Goldwater!
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1091820730.comments.shtml
"I remember spending Christmas Eve of 1968 five miles across the Cambodian border being shot at by our South Vietnamese allies who were drunk and celebrating Christmas. The absudity of almost {being} killed by our own allies in a country in which President Nixon claimed there were no American troops was very real."The SwiftVets state that this quote is from Kerry's October 14th, 1979 article in the Boston Herald.