[visitor]

actually it was John F Kennedy who first put our military into South Vietnam, Johnson was simply garnering votes by saying he would pull our troops out of South Vietnam ...rto

[Republic]

Even tho this article was published earlier this year-I wish kerry's book, THE NEW SOLDIER, was part of the author's discussion.

[ex-Texan]

You are incorrect. Kennedy sent only Special Forces advisors to Vietnam. One of them was a good friend of mine and he came back from 'Nam and working with the hill country people [Montanyards (Sp?)] in 1962. Lyndon Johnson used the "Fake Gulf of Tonkin Incident" to get the U.S. into the war with thousands of troops. Johnson was even more of liar than Clinton.