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To: MNJohnnie
As for the "More boots on ground" dogma, We followed that dogma in Vietnam. We had 500,000 troops in country at one point. We lost...

Really? I don't recall us losing one battle, not one when we had more boots on the ground. It was in the aftermath of Nixon's "Vietnamization" and "Peace With Honor" drawdown and during his Watergate impeachment imbroglio when we lost...(due to the combined fact of the country's war fatigue (because Nixon, and LBJ before him, ascribed the same logic DUH-Bee-Yuh is using) and the results of handing our military operations off to the green, and poorly led RVN forces before they could handle the situation with the more determined NVA).

12 posted on 08/29/2006 12:06:31 PM PDT by meandog (While Clinton isn't fit even to scrape Reagan's shoes, Bush will never fill them!)
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To: meandog
Really? I don't recall us losing one battle, not one when we had more boots on the ground. It was in the aftermath of Nixon's "Vietnamization" and "Peace With Honor" drawdown and during his Watergate impeachment imbroglio when we lost...(due to the combined fact of the country's war fatigue (because Nixon, and LBJ before him, ascribed the same logic DUH-Bee-Yuh is using) and the results of handing our military operations off to the green, and poorly led RVN forces before they could handle the situation with the more determined NVA).

Don't blame it on Nixon. It was the Dem Congress that pulled the rug out from the ARVN by cutting off funding. The North Vietnamese invaded the South violating the Paris Peace Accords. The US left Vietnam in January 1973. The South hung on for almost two years until they lost our support.

19 posted on 08/29/2006 12:18:04 PM PDT by kabar
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