Originally posted by: Harvey
1. With the possible exception of Johnson's lies that took us into Vienam, NOTHING done by ANY previous adminstration is as catastrophic for our nation than the current war of LIES in Iraq.
Hey, I was totally following your posts and even agreeing with most of them, until I see this.
Do you realize what you just said? You're concentrating on and railing this abomination (rightly so, because it is such), but brushing aside the LBJ bullsh!t because you know, he was a democrat. Not only was he socially left-wing, but he was a fvcking warmonger.
President Johnson increasingly focused on the American military effort in Vietnam. He firmly believed in the Domino Theory and that his containment policy required America to make a serious effort to stop all Communist expansion. At Kennedy's death, there were 16,000 American military advisors in Vietnam. Johnson expanded their numbers and roles following the Gulf of Tonkin Incident (less than three weeks after the Republican Convention of 1964, which had nominated Barry Goldwater for President).
To this day, questions persist as to the legitimacy of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which gave the President the exclusive right to use military force without consulting the Senate. It was Johnson who began America's direct involvement in the ground war in Vietnam. By 1968 there were 550,000 American soldiers inside Vietnam; in 1967 and 1968 they were being killed at the rate of over 1000 a month.
But no, thats just an exception whereas the sh!t GWB is pulling is the norm for the party. Yeah...ok.