Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="Rickideemus, post: 211819, member: 12677"]More accurately, the Vietnam war started in 1956 under Eisenhower. The total number of U.S. casualties in Vietnam through 1963, when LBJ took over, was (ready?) 200. From '63 til we pulled out in '75 we lost 58,000 men and 8 women. <a href="http://www.history-of-american-wars.com/vietnam-war-casualties.html">source</a>Make no mistake, this was Johnson's war, and  his lies were deliberately calculated to shape public opinion in order to launch it. The press knew of Johnson's lies long before his term ended, yet they remained silent. <a href="http://fair.org/media-beat-column/30-year-anniversary-tonkin-gulf-lie-launched-vietnam-war/">Read this.</a>You gotta love the last sentence: "We Americans are the ultimate innocents. We are forever desperate to believe that this time the government is telling us the truth."Rick[/QUOTE]