Which shows once again how much you "know" about anything, you moron. I wrote two books on Vietnam, and the research I did shows that LBJ had an inferiority complex when facing the "Best and the Brightest New Frontiersmen," and that THEY were the ones pushing the war and then pushing every expansion. In fact, LBJ was the guy delaying every decision (which pretty much guaranteed the defeat). And if he was a "racist" why did he sponsor and push through the 1957 civil rights act against massive Solid South resistance, and then the 1964 civil rights act followed by the Voting Rights Act.
Vietnam.. North and South, Laos, Cambodia, the massacres and burning of children, LBJ knew… he was the bully of the Senate, chosen to bring Texas for JFK, and they never got it done… he hid behind public relations, lies, it cost us 58,000 lives, we lost, America’s first loss, and we were changed forever.. LBJ retired in disgrace, chased by the ghost of Sen. Eugene McCarthy for the rest of his life - Great Society was his Texas apology, a start, and we need to remember ten years of Vietnam, those 58,000, and the photograph of Eddie Adams that ended that war, one shot in black and white ended our worst war - that changed America. One shot by a 35mm camera taken a point blank range, in the street in wartime.. one shot.. forced us out of a war… what do we need now?
I’d guess color pictures, front, side and back, of lying President Trump might do it, as he spews his never ending lies knee deep and chest high. One film that captures the essence of the man ought to do it..
Once again, what you think is "history" and what actually happened might as well have been on different planets. Since I was there at the (alleged) Tonkin gulf (non) Incident, and wrote a book that starts with Tonkin Gulf in detail (I was staff of the command in charge of the destroyers) and explains who was "running with it" to use for the war they had been pushing since they came into power in 1960 (Vietnam got stated by that pissant JFK and pushed throughout till they were defeated in 1968 by the "Best and the Brightest" of the so called "New Frontier). My research for "The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club" - now that one can access formerly top secret reports downgraded by the 50 year rule - showed that Johnson was paying no attention in the spring/summer of 1964 when the US military was running provocative aerial operations into North Vietnam and we were sending destroyers to cruise down the "3 mile limit line". Johnson took the "incident" seriously because he was afraid of the goldwaterites using it against him. For 20 minutes after he was first told of the "event", LBJ was the only guy on the planet who had it right, when he exclaimed "Those poor damn sailors were probably shooting at flying fish," which in fact they were. In 2006, it was finally proven that the "Lights in the water" that night were actually the reflections of the moon through the clouds and the lightning flashes from the storms in all quadrants, off the enormous school of flying fish that annually transits the Gulf of Tonkin in the first week of August. What I discovered researching that book was that we were all yelling "Hey! Hey! LBJ! How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?" at the wrong guy. It should have been "Hey Hey JFK - the guy who was NEVER going to withdraw, despite all the dumb lefties who just KNOW that the great JFK was "assassinated because he wanted to get out of Vietnam." HAH!! And again, HAH!!!!
I think both JFK and LBJ were trapped by the inevitability of McCarthy-like accusations that they “lost” Vietnam in the same way that some experts on China were accused of “losing” China. The problem was that neither the Chinese mainland or Vietnam were ours to lose to begin with. In Vietnam, the North Vietnamese viewed us as an obstacle to winning their civil war. Despite North Vietnam’s willingness to accept help from the USSR and the PRC, Neil Sheehan recalled in his book “A Bright Shining Lie” that one young NVA guard holding an American civilian prisoner told him that Vietnam was not going to let the Soviets or Mao’s China dictate to them.
Nixon and Kissinger issued a back door request to the South Vietnamese government to refuse to participate in the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 and LBJ was too exhausted to do anything about it. Nixon and Kissinger lied that they had a special plan to “end the war,” and they pointlessly managed to continue the American war in Vietnam until 1973, and the South Vietnamese government collapsed two years later.
It's such a pity that LBJ was trapped by the Vietnam War.
And Nixon’s perfidy.
Once racist LBJ was not trapped. He lied. Repeatedly.
Which shows once again how much you "know" about anything, you moron. I wrote two books on Vietnam, and the research I did shows that LBJ had an inferiority complex when facing the "Best and the Brightest New Frontiersmen," and that THEY were the ones pushing the war and then pushing every expansion. In fact, LBJ was the guy delaying every decision (which pretty much guaranteed the defeat). And if he was a "racist" why did he sponsor and push through the 1957 civil rights act against massive Solid South resistance, and then the 1964 civil rights act followed by the Voting Rights Act.
You are always such a damn fuckwit.
Strong lettter to follow?
What specifically did LBJ lie about?
Vietnam.. North and South, Laos, Cambodia, the massacres and burning of children, LBJ knew… he was the bully of the Senate, chosen to bring Texas for JFK, and they never got it done… he hid behind public relations, lies, it cost us 58,000 lives, we lost, America’s first loss, and we were changed forever.. LBJ retired in disgrace, chased by the ghost of Sen. Eugene McCarthy for the rest of his life - Great Society was his Texas apology, a start, and we need to remember ten years of Vietnam, those 58,000, and the photograph of Eddie Adams that ended that war, one shot in black and white ended our worst war - that changed America. One shot by a 35mm camera taken a point blank range, in the street in wartime.. one shot.. forced us out of a war… what do we need now?
I’d guess color pictures, front, side and back, of lying President Trump might do it, as he spews his never ending lies knee deep and chest high. One film that captures the essence of the man ought to do it..
Sandy Lewis is a drooling moron, pay him no heed.
He still towered over Nixon
Not trapped. Not at all. LBJ squandered blood and treasure in SE Asia. One of the casualties was the funding for the Great Society.
He trapped himself, worse he manufactured the Gulf of Tonkin provocation for the war.
Once again, what you think is "history" and what actually happened might as well have been on different planets. Since I was there at the (alleged) Tonkin gulf (non) Incident, and wrote a book that starts with Tonkin Gulf in detail (I was staff of the command in charge of the destroyers) and explains who was "running with it" to use for the war they had been pushing since they came into power in 1960 (Vietnam got stated by that pissant JFK and pushed throughout till they were defeated in 1968 by the "Best and the Brightest" of the so called "New Frontier). My research for "The Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club" - now that one can access formerly top secret reports downgraded by the 50 year rule - showed that Johnson was paying no attention in the spring/summer of 1964 when the US military was running provocative aerial operations into North Vietnam and we were sending destroyers to cruise down the "3 mile limit line". Johnson took the "incident" seriously because he was afraid of the goldwaterites using it against him. For 20 minutes after he was first told of the "event", LBJ was the only guy on the planet who had it right, when he exclaimed "Those poor damn sailors were probably shooting at flying fish," which in fact they were. In 2006, it was finally proven that the "Lights in the water" that night were actually the reflections of the moon through the clouds and the lightning flashes from the storms in all quadrants, off the enormous school of flying fish that annually transits the Gulf of Tonkin in the first week of August. What I discovered researching that book was that we were all yelling "Hey! Hey! LBJ! How Many Kids Did You Kill Today?" at the wrong guy. It should have been "Hey Hey JFK - the guy who was NEVER going to withdraw, despite all the dumb lefties who just KNOW that the great JFK was "assassinated because he wanted to get out of Vietnam." HAH!! And again, HAH!!!!
Keep telling the truth, maybe someday ears will listen and eyes will see
I think both JFK and LBJ were trapped by the inevitability of McCarthy-like accusations that they “lost” Vietnam in the same way that some experts on China were accused of “losing” China. The problem was that neither the Chinese mainland or Vietnam were ours to lose to begin with. In Vietnam, the North Vietnamese viewed us as an obstacle to winning their civil war. Despite North Vietnam’s willingness to accept help from the USSR and the PRC, Neil Sheehan recalled in his book “A Bright Shining Lie” that one young NVA guard holding an American civilian prisoner told him that Vietnam was not going to let the Soviets or Mao’s China dictate to them.
Nixon and Kissinger issued a back door request to the South Vietnamese government to refuse to participate in the Paris Peace Talks in 1968 and LBJ was too exhausted to do anything about it. Nixon and Kissinger lied that they had a special plan to “end the war,” and they pointlessly managed to continue the American war in Vietnam until 1973, and the South Vietnamese government collapsed two years later.
Do you have PTSD?
None of your business, dude.
You are right, I should not have said that