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Nixon was voted in to End the Vietnam war.

macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
edited October 2007 in A Moving Train
ron paul has said this...


is this true?
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  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    sort of. lbj kept escalating it. nixon said he wanted to start standing down. it took a good long while though. and he increased bombing and troop presence there first, until it became clear the people were ready to revolt over it.
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    i know it was Sen. Mike Gravel that filibustered for 5 months to stop the draft and ultimately end the war... but I had never realized Nixon Said he was going to end the war and than failed to keep his promise..

    I think theres something here in that...which candidates running could possibly change their minds once elected as if lying to the voters is ok.

    Who should you trust?
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    macgyver06 wrote:
    i know it was Sen. Mike Gravel that filibustered for 5 months to stop the draft and ultimately end the war... but I had never realized Nixon Said he was going to end the war and than failed to keep his promise..

    I think theres something here in that...which candidates running could possibly change their minds once elected as if lying to the voters is ok.

    Who should you trust?

    The only candidates I trust are Paul, Gravel, and Kucinich, but I would only vote for Paul.
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    mammasan wrote:
    The only candidates I trust are Paul, Gravel, and Kucinich, but I would only vote for Paul.

    i love you...even know im a gravel supporter

    those 3 are the ones that should be the front runners as of today. anyone else who thinks otherwise still has a long way to go.
  • mammasanmammasan Posts: 5,656
    macgyver06 wrote:
    i love you...

    Sorry man I don't swing that way :)
    "When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads." - Ron Paul
  • jlew24asujlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    mammasan wrote:
    Sorry man I don't swing that way :)

    not that theres anything wrong with that. (great seinfeld episode)
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    Yes. This is true.
    And under Nixon, the Viet Nam War was ended. He called it the 'Vietnamization of the war'... trainning enough South Vietnamese Regulars to hold off the North Vietnamese. U.S involvement in Viet Nam decreased the number of troops there beginning in 1969 and ended in 1973.
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  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    Cosmo wrote:
    Yes. This is true.
    And under Nixon, the Viet Nam War was ended. He called it the 'Vietnamization of the war'... trainning enough South Vietnamese Regulars to hold off the North Vietnamese. U.S involvement in Viet Nam decreased the number of troops there beginning in 1969 and ended in 1973.


    isnt still a communist country?
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    macgyver06 wrote:
    isnt still a communist country?
    ...
    yes... Viet Nam is a Marxist-Leninist Communism.
    But, the great fallacy of Viet Nam and Ho Chi Mihn... fought to spread Communism... they were Nationalists looking to re-unify Viet Nam.
    The North wanted to re-unify a divided Viet Nam and sought support from the communist Chinese only because the U.S. failed to back them because of the French.
    It was easy to demonize them as Communists... just because they were being supplied by the Chinese. All they wanted was their country (which was divied by Europeans) back to one nation.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    but they are under communism today?
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    macgyver06 wrote:
    but they are under communism today?
    ...
    Yes.
    But the question is... so?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • macgyver06macgyver06 Posts: 2,500
    so if we went to iraq in search of WMDS

    why are people still thinking that iraq won't be under a dictatorship once we leave if we didnt go there to even try and end their dictatorship ways?

    so it seems the best option is to completely remove every soldier we have in Iraq TODAY. if were considering saving soldiers' lives.
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    macgyver06 wrote:
    so if we went to iraq in search of WMDS

    why are people still thinking that iraq won't be under a dictatorship once we leave if we didnt go there to even try and end their dictatorship ways?

    so it seems the best option is to completely remove every soldier we have in Iraq TODAY. if were considering saving soldiers' lives.
    ...
    Exactly.
    Iraq will go to Civil War when we leave... whether we leave today or 20 years from now. There is now way you can erase 1400 years of an ethnic divide... especially when it is based on religion... no way.
    Right now... our guys of holding down a lid on a powderkeg... eventually... that shit is going to explode (just like Viet Nam eventually re-united, despite our efforts to keep them divided).
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSunLikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun Posts: 6,097
    we invest a lot of money into Vietnam nowadays. we're all big friends now
  • 810wmb810wmb Posts: 849
    i thoguth he was voted in because humphrey was such a tool
    i'm the meat, yer not...signed Capt Asshat
  • YoyoyoYoyoyo Posts: 310
    The question is, are French and American corporations free to pillage the people and resources of Vietnam? The answer is yes.
    No need to be void, or save up on life

    You got to spend it all
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