2007-01-21 02:19:58 · 7 answers · asked by dudes222 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
yes ..we lost...that's the definition of unsuccessful.
Iraq is redux Vietnam. The major players in the Bush regime are many of the same people who were around during the Nixon administration. Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney, for example were aides to Gerald Ford who followed and pardoned Nixon. They tried to persuade president Ford to veto the enhanced Freedom of Information Act. Back then they seem to have recognized that the truth would haunt them. It still does. They preferred to operate with impunity then as they do now. What can one expect from the same cast of characters? They were sick then, when Nixon was in office, and, they are sick now.
History has a way of repeating itself as the observation goes. Sooner, or, later, as the tide continues to turn, the people will respond to the pervasive sickness that permeates this regime and the land, and do something about it. The populace will once again become sick and tired of the sickness. When that happens, and I do believe that day is coming, a second president in my lifetime will be leaving the White House in disgrace. The people will line the streets and salute farewell to the commander-in-thief in similar fashion to how they "welcomed" him on "inauguration" day, June 20, 2001. The difference this time will be, however, that George W. Bush will be leaving the White without legitimately having been elected in the first place.
2007-01-21 02:23:39 · answer #1 · answered by dstr 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Yes, LBJ was unsuccessful because he let the liberal media that hates American success manipulate him and much of the American public into believing we are losing, just like the liberal media is doing now with Iraq.
After we abandoned our friends in Vietnam there were mass killings that would have been prevented had Americans stayed and finished the job, and after the war our Communist enemies said that America was within a few months of winning when we left. Had we not been influenced by the liberal media millions of people who were murdered in Communist purges would still be alive.
2007-01-21 11:58:16 · answer #2 · answered by jesuscuresislam 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mere fact the United States lost that war in the end is a testament to the fact that LBJ's policies, and every other presidents' policies, too, who served during that time, were unsuccessful.
2007-01-21 10:27:40 · answer #3 · answered by Jackson Leslie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No one was successful in the Vietnam war it was a debacle and the government was so afraid to admit it they were paralyzed. They kept trying to win a war where there was nothing to win. We were fighting someone else's civil war and we lost over 5700 wonderful young men in the process. Devastated Vietnam and Cambodia(which was a neutral country..but the fight was taken to their doorstep anyway because the Viet Cong were slipping over their borders for R&R and to regroup)and also Laos.More bombs were dropped on these 3 counrtries than on WW1 WW2 and the Korean war combined. Johnson resigned in shame from his involvement.You should read some books or take a clss on the Vietnam War, it's facinating and shocking at the same time. Don't ever forget to give respect to those who fought it. They were our last drafted citizens. Always respect our troops but don't be afraid to speak up if you don't agree with what we are doing in the world.Enough voices can make a difference. We have got to stop killing people in the name of helping them. We don't allow assisted suicide in most of this country to help the suffering. But, we will turn our backs on genocide all over the world and instead of helping them step in with weapons. Instead of becoming ambassadors become agressors. We owe it to the world to do better.
2007-01-21 10:59:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Vietnam was LBJs supreme folly. He had a chance to shut down the war after Kennedy's death but did not. It destroyed him and tarnished his presidency. Why were we there in the first place?
2007-01-21 10:23:48 · answer #5 · answered by planksheer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well .....Halliburton, Brown and Root ( kbr), Bechtel. General Dynamics, Bell Helicopters and the other war profitters were successful. They were his puppet masters
war is a business....and business is good...those were the days....
The smell of $100 bills lighting cigars on the golf courses in Texass and washington DC.
Thats why the USA is a dumbazz nation that nation that hates peace
2007-01-21 10:31:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, he lost an "un-winable" war.
2007-01-21 10:24:15 · answer #7 · answered by Bawney 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋