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Overseas

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20. It may be old news but it is still devastating.

Reply to Octafish (Reply #19)

Sat May 26, 2012, 11:34 AM

May 2012

Hard to grasp the magnitude of this, so it has been good of you to post so much history that younger folks may have missed, and others like me have sometimes tried to forget.

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Memorial Day for as Long as I Can Remember [View all] Octafish May 2012 OP

NIXON courted the South Viet Namese behind LBJ's back and HE BECAME PRESIDENT!!! patrice May 2012 #1

Nixon's Treason in Service of War and the BFEE. Octafish May 2012 #2

I work hard to be rational, but this fact just makes my blood boil!!! patrice May 2012 #3

Russ Baker also makes my corpuscles go straight to vaporize... Octafish May 2012 #7

BTW, Thom Hartmann plays audio tape of LBJ & DIRKSON(!!!) discussing what Nixon was doing. nt patrice May 2012 #4

Amazing conversation. WTF didn't LBJ's DoJ haul Nixon's pimply arse before a federal judge? Octafish May 2012 #8

Wow! bongbong May 2012 #6

Precisely!!! patrice May 2012 #9

Wasn't that the scheme where Anna Chennault told Thieu to stonewall hifiguy May 2012 #15

No! Nixon courted the South Vietnamese puppets behind LBJ's back to get coalition_unwilling May 2012 #14

Oh, that's right. Gettin' old here and that's one of those that I have to stop and remember patrice May 2012 #16

Ironically, LBJ's war was fought for PR and the media brought him down. Tierra_y_Libertad May 2012 #5

Re Vietnam: JFK wanted PEACE. Octafish May 2012 #10

''At the time, the United States had only 1,500 military advisers in South Vietnam.'' Octafish May 2012 #11

So true. Overseas May 2012 #12

K&R. So sad. Overseas May 2012 #13

There was a time when peace trumped money - a war hero who lost a brother in combat was President. Octafish May 2012 #19

It may be old news but it is still devastating. Overseas May 2012 #20

+1000 countryjake May 2012 #17

We owe our freedom to your Dad and all who've served the nation. Octafish May 2012 #21

Pretty much malaise May 2012 #18

JFK worried about the generals. His own generals. Octafish May 2012 #22

Generals are addicted to war malaise May 2012 #24

Gen Curtis Lemay was the architect of the mass-incendiary bombing raids on Japan in WWII LongTomH May 2012 #26

Yep. Arugula Latte May 2012 #23

Great thread. CanSocDem May 2012 #25