[mosaicwolf]

"Money and politics!

I am a VN vet and remember all the problems with the M16. If I recall, the principle stockholder in the company that won the contract to supply the M16 to the Army in those days ILO the M14 was owned by Lady Bird Johnson.

[OKSooner]

I'm getting off topic here, I know, but LBJ was the next-to-crookedest son of a stinking bitch to ever sit in the oval office.

And yeah, he (okay, Lady Byrd Johnson, no conflict of interest that way /s) profited big time from the war, just as he profited from JFK being assassinated in Dallas by whomever...

(Okay, way off topic, I better drop it before someone rightly accuses me of hijacking the thread.)