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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Actually it was started by Eisenhower

Actually it was started by Kennedy. Providing training and logistics isn't the same as actively engaging in a war (or, in this case, "police action"). The US didn't become a combatant until the Gulf of tonkin and that was all Kennedy.

Be that as it may, it was LBJ who ramped up the bombings

This is the only thing you said that isn't nonsense

It's always funny to me that the people who claim to love America the most are the most ignorant of the actual hsitory.

You and your strawman can suck the fattest part of my dick

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US didn’t become a combatant until the Gulf of tonkin and that was all Kennedy.

The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War. It consisted of a confrontation on August 2, 1964,

On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas

Better check your pants, because if that's your fact checking I'm not sure you have a wee-wee at all.

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

'64 wasn't the nixon administration either you anatomical diagram

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago

Nixon started the GOP’s destruction of the middle class.

If you improved your reading/thinking skills you might learn something.

I never said Nixon started the Vietnam War. That mistake is 100% you not understanding how to read.