On Oct 22, 7:24 pm, "ScottW" wrote:
"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in ooglegroups.com...
On Oct 21, 2:57 pm, "ScottW" wrote:
"Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!" wrote in
He approved the use of defoliants, authorized destruction of rice crops
and then approved a coup of Diem.
And, ironically, Admiral Elmo Zumwalt killed his own son with Agent
Orange.
Yeah...that's relevant. (sarcasm intended)
As relevant as defoliation is to the subject at hand.
I answered this once, perhaps the long answer will show up eventually.
Here you go, 2pid. As usual, you're too lazy to research. Your
'opinions' and 'beliefs' are more important than mere facts. Note
where this is published, as well.
"McNamara [in his book] said, 'We were wrong, terribly wrong'[about
Vietnam] but that he and others were prisoners of the Cold War
ideology of containment. So they had no flexibility. It didn't matter
who the President was, who the Secretary of Defense was, who the
members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff were, because they were compelled
by the ideology of the time."
Sounds like he agrees with me.
Uh-huh. Did you keep reading? Watch:
"What this new evidence shows dramatically is that these were men who
not only should have known better but who did know better. It also
shows that the war, far from being inevitable, was only made possible
by the deliberate deceit and manipulation of the American public, the
Congress, and members of Johnson's own administration."
http://www.afa.org/magazine/perspect...m/0198duty.asp
And if you go read this, look at how important Johnson's personality
and emotional traits were an issue.
Now why do you suppose this is on the recommended reading list for the
military?
Our military has been infiltrated by a bunch of code pinkos?...
Yes, "Code Pinkos" like COL H.R. McMaster, Colonel, USA. BTW, 2pid, do
you suppose that a person who wrote a book as a major would make
colonel if what he wrote was not true, not well researched, not well
referenced, and so on? Do you suppose a book on history that was not
valid would survive the scrutiny of historians and fellow military
officers? Duh.
So why don't you support the troops, 2pid? Isn't calling an active-
duty officer a "Pinko" against what you 'stand' for?
But you already proved that. Luckily, they're slowly being
forced out.
What a dilemma you've created for yourself. It would be "lucky" if one
of the main advisors to the Commanding General in Iraq, who is working
to reverse five years of our bungled policy, is "forced out."
So what you're really saying is that you hope we fail in Iraq. The
true 2pid comes out.