On Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:47:59 -0400, Tom wrote:

Maybe a better question would be...who did he take orders from? A
Democratic President sent advisors in, 1959...Eisenhower...Kennedy
continued the debacle.....Johnson escaladed it...and a so called war
mongering Republican President had the balls to end it all...so in
retrospect, lets blame the DEMS!!!!

It was a bipartisan mess. Nixon ran as the "peace" candidate twice. It
took him five years to get us out of Vietnam, and 1/3 of our KIAs were on
his watch.