"Maxprop" wrote
Are you referring to *America entering the war?* The French had been
there
for some time before we got involved. It was already a shooting conflict
by
the time JFK sent "advisors" to Vietnam.



Vito wrote:
Nope.

???


... The French had admitted defeat and left.

True, but...

... There was no significant
shooting

bull****, unless by "no significant shooting" you choose to ignore the
thousands of North Vietnamese shooting at South Vietnamese people, and
occasionally vice versa.

Read the Vietnamese gov't's own version of history, they will tell you
that they had a significant cadre infiltrated "freedom fighters" into
South Viet Nam, where they took over isolated villages (peacefully of
course), recruited Viet Cong fifth-columnists, and disrupted as much of
the country's normal activities as they could, including murdering gov't
officials.

... until the South Vietnamese Government refused to abide by the
agreement and hold reunification elections.

yeah yeah, you will not ever grasp the fact of this matter, will you?
I've already worn out two sledgehammers trying to drive it in.

DSK