Who started the Vietnam War, The U.S or North Vietnam?

Question

And also, What do you think of the horrible U.S Army war crimes? (using napalm bombs, killing civilians, torture NVA P.O.W mercilessly and such stuff...)

Answer 1

The Vietnamese were fighting for their independence from France long before we came into the picture. They were winning and it was looking like they were going to go Communist. Since it was the cold war, the US wasn't too thrilled about that. We trumped up charges, like the Gulf of Tonkin, where we claimed that they fired on one of our boats (which is something we instigated) and started the war.

Keep in mind, this is the very short and dirty of it.

Answer 2

Son you need to read a few history books. I have no idea where you got this crap from?

First off. The Basic answer is, North Vietnam started the war. They supported a comunists war in the South and supplied the VC.
Next, Whole books could be written on the savage crimes of the NVA & VC.
Napalm? What about it? It's fire. A weapon that dates back to the begining of man.

Answer 3

Neither The Vietnam War actually began 100 yrs earlier as a rebellion against French Colonization it wasn't until after the Korean War was over and France decided to pull out of Indochina that the Us got Involved. We were at first only there as Military Advisers to the South Vietnamese but after the attack in the gulf of Tonkin did we become involved in the actual fighting and as to US War Crimes the use of napalm was not a war crime and if us military personnel did kill civilians what you have to understand is that it was not easy to identify those who were not combatants and those who were women and children were known to carry explosives into areas where american soldiers where and explode them, the Viet Caong were adapt at blending in with the local population that to a point it was impossible to tell them apart till it was to late. And as to torture of NVA POW where the heck are you getting your INFO Jane Fonda?

Answer 4

Actually France did. They pulled out because the war was unwinnable and the US moved in because of something called the domino effect. Which meant that if Vietnam turned communist then the whole world would be next. In reality there were financial interests there of both France and the US.

And as far as I understand the Vietnamese were just as nasty when it came to torturing soldier and their own people. In somecases Pol Pot of Cambodia was said to help setup the internal police forces there. It's main reason there was huge immigration of Vietnamese during the 60's and 70's.

Both sides did nasty things. But in war that's kind of hard. The whole point is to kill more people on the other side of the fence.

Answer 5

Those Soviet puppets, North Vietnam. Whe they were the Viet Minh(Communists), they stole the anti-French revolution from the Viet Quoc(Nationalists) in the 1930's, and wanted an all communist Indochina, which was why they also backed the Pathet Lao and Khmer Rouge along with the Viet Cong. In addition the Pathet Lao & Khmer Rouge were originally part of the Viet Minh, and when Laos & Cambodia won against France before North or South Vietnam did, Ho Chi Minh continued to back those coimmunist thugs up, insisting they were "liberators" despite the fact that they no longer had anything to be "liberated" from once the French were gone.

And another thing, we didn't "trump up" the Gulf of Tonkin incident. IT WAS REAL!
http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/dd731-k.htm

Answer 6

The Viet Nam war really began in WWII when the Japanese kicked the French out of Indo-China. North Viet Nam was fighting against European Imperialistic powers (and Japanese Imperialists) from that point until their victory in the mid-70s. North Viet Nam intended to unify Viet Nam whether or not the US intervened. The US was not going to allow a unified Communist Viet Nam without a fight. There isn't much point in blaming one side or the other for starting it, both sides were ready and willing to go to war.

While there was some American commission of "war crimes" most of the ones done were done by Viet Namese, North and South.

If I were given a choice of being either a POW captured by the US or a POW captured by North Viet Nam I know which way I would choose. I don't think any informed individual would pick differently.

Answer 7

Vietnam had been in war since about the beginning of time. They were constantly under seige. They battled the Chinese way before France. America didn't become involved until France needed war advisors, so we stepped in, France stepped out, and the rest is U.S. history.
As for war crimes, no war is right, fair, or just. War isn't pretty, nor a game. It's disgusting and horrible and all countries take whatever actions possible to win it.
In a "perfect world" governments would understand that no one "wins" at war.

Answer 8

The commies in the north started it. Sound to me like you mite b one of those commie pricks that felt sorry for the little rats in the north or else a liberal loser that couldnt stand the U.S. winning the conflict.
Napalm- a genius invention to eliminate morons like you
Killing civillians- if they git in ur way, kill them w/ the commies, theyll figure out not to mess w/you
Torture NVA POW-that would be the ARVN interpreters doin that, which i dont like it was the LITTLE commies cowards that tortured AMERICAN POW (can u believe that we lost sum too)
Such stuff-like the commies couldnt fight us themselves so they scurried off to china and the soviets to get their help

The 1 thing i cant stand is the little commie, rat b@$*@** , cowards that say that the US was in the wrong.

Answer 9

The question clearly states "Who started the Vietnam War".....The U.S. or North Vietnam?


North Vietnam....Started the war....South Vietnam was a free sovereign state....and North Vietnam started the war by invading them!......And America came too South Vietnam's aide...but because of the Communist in America propaganda...protesting and Congressional politicians blocking every chance we had too win....we pulled out and let the North Vietnamese....win...

Answer 10

Vietnam was fighting for independence from France and the US stepped in when it looked as if the North was going to win. The North was getting help from China. In order to become involved in battle so far from our shores, a sales campaign was needed to sell the war -- like WMDs and the War on Terror. So scare tactics were employed -- Commies! As Vietnam goes, so goes the rest of Asia was the domino theory. Other dishonest rumors like the Gulf of Tonkin -- a mistake in transmission -- provided excuses to ramp up the war. It was in the depths of the cold war and vestiges of the McCarthy era remained.

Answer 11

well your aether young or an old idiot the French where there way before we where we where just tying to clean up there mess and the Britt's. as for war crimes you got to be kidding do a little research and you ll see what they did to us and there own people you need to stop listening to other people find out the answers for your self oh if it wasn't for the horrible army Stalin or Hitler would be telling you what to do and the minute you say horrible army you'd be shot