From: Dehede011@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 31 2002 - 09:19:03 MDT
In a message dated 8/31/2002 4:06:49 AM Central Standard Time,
fortean1@mindspring.com writes: Vietnam - a French cockup that we stepped
into and paid a price for Johnson's and McNamara's inability to prosecute the
war. Congress shutting off funding to the South Vietnamese military insured
the North's victory.
Jim,
If you haven't already read Admiral James Stockdale book with
particular reference to the Tonkin Gulf incident. Our getting into that war
was an error but it wasn't an accident IMHO. But you are right, the war was
lost in the halls of Congress.
Ron h
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