Re: What have we done?


"Al Superczynski" <modeleral@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 07 Aug 2005 20:26:00 -0700, Old Salt card carrying Curmudgeon
> <oldsalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >Nam was about oil...
>
> What??? Cite, please. Oil was dirt cheap and plentiful in the
> 1960s. Why in the hell would we have gone to war for oil way back
> then??

The left blamed it on everything except the true reasons... we made a
committment to South Vietnam in 1954 to support them, Ike and Kennedy both
put in military advisors with Kennedy increasing the numbers and their
duties (to include going into the field).

It was never about any raw materials or natural resources.


--
Hooda Gest
"Respect is difficult to win, easy to lose."

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