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August 23rd 04, 12:08 AM

ospam (Michael Bryant) wrote ...

Any clear-thinking individual would agree that many American soldiers did
indeed carry out atrocities in VN.

Ok professor. You're on. I'm a clear-thinking individual and I will
NOT agree to your proposal here. How many is "many"? Ok there was My
Lai. Rattle off a few others. And demonstrate your meaning of
"many". A hundred? A thousand? Ten thousand? Granted one is too
many. But how many is "many" ?

The war was a horrible mistake and resulted
in the largest embarrassment that our military ever faced.

Amen and amen, professor. Agreed. No doubt about it. Will we ever
know what precipitated it? Oh yeah .. they told us we were there to
stop communism. Right. It didn't do a lot to stop communism, but a
lot of large corporations made a lot of pesos off the war, didn't
they?

I even heard .. that the Johnson family owned a transport company that
was shipping the war supplies. Yep, Lyndon "I'll go to war myself
before I send someone else's son to war" Johnson. Those Johnsons.

And we thought only republicans were involved in big business and war
mongering.

Proving that GREED is a bi-partisan quality. Yes?