e$: crypto-expatriatism (fwd)

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> Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1998 17:29:12 -0400
> From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
> Subject: e$: crypto-expatriatism

> Ridgeway told Eisenhower at the outset that Vietnam was a multi-million-man
> war, and Eisenhower stayed out accordingly, throwing a few marginal people on
> the ground to shut Lodge up. It took Testosterone Jack to get a Special-Forces
> hard-on. Eventually he and Desktop Lyndon ended up screwing a pooch
> instead of the commies.

Balonely, do your research somewhere beside a bar. JFK had no intention of
sending more troops in and every intention of withdrawing the troops that
were there. There are two sources you can look at to verify this. The first
is the troop count over time and the internal presidential memos to the
Chiefs of Staff. Had JFK not been shot there would have been NO US troops in
Vietnam by the end of '64.

LBJ is the nit-wit who crewed the proverbial pooch.


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At 6:08 PM -0400 on 9/7/98, Jim Choate wrote:


> > Ridgeway told Eisenhower at the outset that Vietnam was a multi-million-man
> > war, and Eisenhower stayed out accordingly, throwing a few marginal
>people on
> > the ground to shut Lodge up. It took Testosterone Jack to get a
>Special-Forces
> > hard-on. Eventually he and Desktop Lyndon ended up screwing a pooch
> > instead of the commies.
>
> Balonely, do your research somewhere beside a bar. JFK had no intention of
> sending more troops in and every intention of withdrawing the troops that
> were there. There are two sources you can look at to verify this. The first
> is the troop count over time and the internal presidential memos to the
> Chiefs of Staff. Had JFK not been shot there would have been NO US troops in
> Vietnam by the end of '64.
>
> LBJ is the nit-wit who crewed the proverbial pooch.

I've got an idea. Go read Halverstam's "The Best and the Brightest", Jim,
and then tell me what bar I did my research in.

Cheers :-),
Bob Hettinga
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