"Bradley B." wrote in message
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On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 15:51:19 -0500, "T. Early"
wrote:


Nixon inherited what started as a regional issue that Democrat
Kennedy
escalated and Democrat Johnson turned into a war. In short, it was
a
Democrat war first and foremost.


Yes, Kennedy certainly played a role in escalation, but it began
with
Eisenhower. Although, Eisenhower wisely refused to bail out the
French, under Eisenhower in 1956, when the French leave Vietnam,
the
US Military Assistance Advisor Group (MAAG) assumes responsibility,
from the French, for training South Vietnamese forces. Historians,
of which Ann Coulter is not one, date this as the beginning of the
slippery slope.

Skipping past parsing arguments and what "is" is, I'll offer what is
only an OPINION: Ann Coulter is nothing but part of the dancing
bread
& circus act for the masses, while we risk repeating history,
creeping
from a republic toward an empire, where the superfluous masses need
to
be occupied and entertained. dxace was right in at least one
respect,
my bringing her up is only inviting distraction into further
meaningless entertainment.


That may well be, and no doubt you regard the likes of Michael Moore
and most of Hollywood as part of the same circus. It also doesn't
change the fact that you initiated a thread on this matter, provided a
number of instances that allegedly made her out to be factually
challenged, but, when questioned, weren't inclined to go any further
into your own interpretation of her remarks, other than a quibble
about a "slippery slope." So it would appear that we can rest easy
that Wilson and Truman were Democrats and nothing Coulter said was
inconsistent with that.