Question:
What president sent the most U.S. soldiers to Vietnam?
anonymous
2013-02-16 04:56:16 UTC
What president sent the most U.S. soldiers to Vietnam?
Eight answers:
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2013-02-16 05:04:34 UTC
Johnson a democrat greatly escalated the fighting in Vietnam, he took it from small groups of advisers assisting the South to all out war. Many believe part of this escalation was due to his interest in the military industrial complex in Texas which made him rich.



Nixon ended the war by finally allowing the US Military to actually fight and forcing the North into the peace talks.
cavsargetank
2013-02-16 14:39:05 UTC
LBJ did. Everything was going our way after we inherited France's problems with Kennedy until Johnson got in a peeing match with the USSR's desire for a warm water port.



We should have left that crap hole as soon as we'd rescued the French forces after they messed up by not sending the Japanese back to Japan. That is why the war started in the first place. Did we lose? No. We gave it back to South VN and they lost. Did we win? Up until the point the Politicians got involved and restricted any chance of conducting successful warfare. So Within the boundaries of the restrictions from politics and diplomacy we won, packed up and left the SVN to their own devices.



The Politicians should have studied Sun Tzu and Patton.
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2013-02-16 15:46:06 UTC
Johnson sent the most troops in, but Nixon led the most bomb campaigns and chemical-warfare stuff.



Nixon's idea was to "use less soldiers" while "doing more damage".



He also had what is called the "madman theory". Which was (basically) that the best way to win a war was through terrorism. I mean, that's not what he said, but that's basically what it is. Check it out.



Nixon was a republican, Johnson was (barely) a democrat. But that's irrelevant when it comes to war.
Jimbo
2013-02-16 13:11:58 UTC
It was Lyndon Baines Johnson a Democrat. And thanks Lyle for a great posting. It's time somebody set the record straight.
anonymous
2013-02-16 13:02:03 UTC
Here’s the democrat’s history on wars they got us into:

1. Mexican American War = democrat pres. James Polk

2. WW1 = democrat pres. Wilson

3. WW2 = democrat pres. FDR

4. Korean War = democrat pres. Truman

5. Vietnam War = democrat pres.'s JFK and LBJ

6. Bosnia War = democrat pres. Clinton



The answer is, LBJ.



Yet the call us "warmongers"! It's almost as absurd as them calling us "racists":





http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_org_kkk.html: “The Klan quickly became a terrorist organization in service of the Democratic Party and white supremacy. Between 1869 and 1871 its goal was to destroy Congressional Reconstruction by murdering blacks -- and some whites -- who were either active in Republican politics or educating black children.”



http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/wilson/portrait/wp_league.html: After [democrat] Wilson was elected in 1912 blacks were segregated or dismissed from federal positions, including the Navy.



6/11/12 npr.org:

-100 members of Congress -- 96 Democrats and 4 Republicans -- present a "Declaration of Constitutional Principles" that opposed Brown v. Board of Education which desegregated schools and protested civil rights initiatives.

-“During this period, they [KKK] often forged alliances with Southern police departments, as in Birmingham, Alabama; or with governor's offices, as with George Wallace [democrat] of Alabama who, on his inauguration as governor of Alabama on January 14, 1963, proclaimed 'Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.'” wikipedia



Which party supported the 1964 Civil Rights Act which outlaws discrimination against Blacks and women? Democrat senators, 61%; Republicans, 80%.



Which party opposed the Civil Rights Voting Act of 1965? Democrat senators 27%, Republican senators 6%; democrat House members 22%, Republican House members 18%.



Republican President Eisenhower sent federal troops to Little Rock, Arkansas for the first time since Reconstruction to enforce federal court orders to desegregate public schools, and signed civil rights legislation in 1957 and in 1960 to protect the right to vote. He implemented desegregation of the armed forces.



For years Dem. Senator Robert Byrd was the "Grand Dragon" of the entire Mid-Atlantic states. (6/19/05 Washington Post). He filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He was the longest-serving senator in history and democrats chose him as their Senate leader many times. He died in-office three years ago: “VP Biden said today that with the passing of Sen. Robert Byrd the Senate lost a legend and he lost a dear friend and mentor.” 6/28/10 ABC News



The New Yorker: “Tim Russert told me that, according to his sources, Bill Clinton, in an effort to secure an endorsement for Hillary from Ted Kennedy, said to Kennedy, ‘A few years ago, this guy [Obama] would have been carrying our bags.’” http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/…



12/3/93 The Baltimore Sun: Jesse Jackson admits: "I hate to admit it, but I have reached a stage in my life that if I am walking down a dark street late at night and I see that the person behind me is white, I subconsciously feel relieved."



Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood, a favorite organization of democrats:

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the ***** is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the ***** population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members." (As described in Linda Gordon's Woman's Body, Woman's Right: A Social History of Birth Control in America . New York: Grossman Publishers, 1976).



In 1926, Sanger gave a lecture on birth control to the women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan in Silver Lake, NJ. wikipedia.
anonymous
2013-02-16 12:57:47 UTC
LBJ.

Democrat.
?
2013-02-16 13:02:49 UTC
The President of the USA.
?
2013-02-16 12:57:57 UTC
Nixon he belong to the Republican


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