Re: Vote For Nixon!
From: Fred Bloggs (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 10/26/04
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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 14:10:01 GMT
John Larkin wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 05:54:45 GMT, john_c@tpg.com.au (John Crighton)
> wrote:
>
>
>>On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 18:24:20 -0700, John Larkin
>><jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 15:00:24 +0100, Paul Burridge
>>><pb@notthisbit.osiris1.co.uk> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Sure he was a crook, but quite likeable. I think it was that shifty
>>>>expression of his. Plus of course you knew where you stood with him.
>>>
>>>
>>>Established the EPA. Ended the VietNam war. Open relationships with
>>>China. Bad guy.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>
>>Please explain how Nixon " Ended the VietNam war" ?
>
>
> By pulling all our troops out.
Over a seven year period? What was the rush? And don't forget about the
illegal invasion of Cambodia.
>
> It was Kennedy who started that particular war, and Johnson who lied
> to Congress to massively escalate it.
Hehe- they were trying to prevent Eisenhower's "domino effect"- a long
standing government national security policy that had become dogma in
the '60's. There was no other choice to be made at the time. That war
was going to end after 1968, by which time the hopelessness of the
situation was more than obvious, no matter who succeeded Johnson.
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