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To: PsyOp

In November 1965 the Joint Chiefs went to the White House to ask LBJ for permission to bomb Hanoi and mine Haiphong.

He cursed them for fools and threw them out.

"The Day It Became the Longest War", Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, May 1996.

65 posted on 09/01/2004 10:26:35 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)

To: PhilDragoo

He cursed them for fools and threw them out.

Johnson's mishandling of that war verges on the criminal.

70 posted on 09/02/2004 8:00:04 AM PDT by PsyOp (John Kerry—a .22 Rimfire Short in a .44 Magnum world.)

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