The war in Vietnam & Impeachable Presidential Lies

calbert at pop.tiac.net calbert at pop.tiac.net
Thu Dec 3 05:44:55 CST 1998


> Three cheers for Peter's perspicacity here!  His rundown of the war being
> a good refresher for some of us (and likely a good remedial course for
> some others of us).  
> I offer a bit of embellishment:

Me too:

The start of the Vietnam conflict has its roots in the collapse of 
French "empire" in SE Asia. US involvement preceeded its committment 
of troops. At the time of Dien Ben Phu (sp?) the Eisenhower 
administration was supporting the french with hundreds of millions 
per year. Ike's VP ? RMN.
love,
cfa



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