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Default OT RIP Ted Kennedy

On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:40:58 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> TammyM wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> How long will you be singing the "Bush did it song"? Since the Kennedy
>>> name is in play you do know for example that it was Kennedy's brother
>>> who got us into the Vietnam War with a planned no win position where
>>> the only outcome was lots of military suppliers made lots of money?
>>> Nothing new began or ended with Bush.

>>
>> Wasn't it the Eisenhower administration that initially sent "advisers"
>> to Vietnam? Maybe I'm misremembering that, it's early and I haven't yet
>> had my coffee.

>
> Wasn't it also the Eisenhower administration that helped to end the
> civil war in Vietnam by dividing the country in two with the promise of
> a plebiscite on reunification, and then backed the South's crooked
> regime when they refused to hold the promised election because they knew
> that the north would win?


what difference does it make? bush still started the ****upathon in iraq,
for no reason other than he and the neocons wanted to.

your pal,
blake