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To: uncbob
It was Truman and his incompetent State department that caused the war to begin with

What happened? I'm trying to learn more about the Korean non-War.

9 posted on 11/11/2006 6:19:31 AM PST by syriacus (GOT MATH? 30,000 troops died in Korea under Truman in 3 years. 3,000 troops died in Iraq under Bush.)
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To: syriacus
The Truman Doctrine, March 12, 1947
At the present moment in world history nearly every nation must choose between alternative ways of life.

The choice is too often not a free one.

One way of life is based upon the will of the majority, and is distinguished by free institutions, representative government, free elections, guarantees of individual liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and freedom from political oppression.

The second way of life is based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority. It relies upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedoms.

I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic stability and orderly political process."


10 posted on 11/11/2006 6:31:17 AM PST by syriacus (GOT MATH? 30,000 troops died in Korea under Truman in 3 years. 3,000 troops died in Iraq under Bush.)
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