2007-03-09 00:30:00 · 11 answers · asked by nothing 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
It was Johnson who began America's direct involvement in the ground war in Vietnam. By 1968 there were 550,000 American soldiers inside Vietnam; in 1967 and 1968 they were being killed at the rate of over 1000 a month.
Over 58,000 american soldiers were killed... he was a democrat... so is it only republicans that get us into avoidable wars?? doubt it!!!
2007-03-09 00:46:23 · update #1
Truman sent the first advisors and materiel support. Eisenhower increased the number of advisors and support.
Kennedy massively increased the aid to include sending Green Berets over to train and augment South Vietnamese forces.
Johnson sent the first actual combat troops and escalated it into a full scale war.
Nixon tried to win it with massive bombing and ground campaigns, then finally gave up the ghost and pulled the troops out.
Oh, and to the guy above me claiming that we armed Saddam Hussein, I suggest you go to Sipri.org and do some research to determine who really armed Saddam.
Hint: The USA doesn't manufacture Migs, Mirages, T series tanks, or Kalashnikovs.
2007-03-09 00:42:05 · answer #1 · answered by thegubmint 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Kennedy. The French were there before us. He sent in advisors and it escalated from there. Nixon got us out because the Democrats in Congress refused to fund the troops and it led to the killings of millions in Cambodia and Viet Nam. The U.S. never lost a battle there and we were on our way to defeating the North and securing the country for freedom when the left wing and communist sympathizers in Congress betrayed the people of South Viet Nam. I served two tours there. It is the same far left wing of Congress and war protesters that we heard from then that we are hearing from now. Only then when we were home we could not wear our uniforms because we were physically attacked and spat upon. They also claimed to support the troops. They are about to do the same thing again. John Kerry spent four months there and faked his way into a Purple Heart so he could come home and run for office. He lied before Congress and claimed he saw beheadings and other war crimes and later when forced to prove it he admitted he lied.
2007-03-09 00:38:56 · answer #2 · answered by ohbrother 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
John F Kennedy. Regardless of the history lesson you will no less get from asking this, it was Kennedy and then Johnson who were the two principal presidents. We had advisers wandering around for a couple years but these two escalated the police action into a War. Nixon campaigned and won primarily on his "sane" approach to gradually pull the troops out.
2007-03-09 00:37:40 · answer #3 · answered by Matt 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Kennedy began sending advisors in 1962 . We also seemed to have armed and trained a large number of soldiers that would later flee to the north and use that training and weaponry against the south .
Sound familiar ,we armed Saddam and his army only to face them in battle today .
2007-03-09 00:39:41 · answer #4 · answered by trouble maker 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it was either Kennedy or Johnson, probably Johnson. I could be wrong, of course, because i didn't look it up, and I am relying on memory alone, and I was only a child at the time!!!!
2007-03-09 00:34:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lyndon B Johnson.
2007-03-09 00:33:37 · answer #6 · answered by vegaswoman 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Johnson
2007-03-09 00:32:48 · answer #7 · answered by kittenbrower 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
The draft went into effect with LBJ. Our involvment started with Truman sending military aid (1950)..
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/vietnam/index-1945.html
2007-03-09 00:34:54 · answer #8 · answered by bebe 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Eisenhower when we sent first advisors
2007-03-09 00:33:35 · answer #9 · answered by Joe Good Guy 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
JFK
2007-03-09 01:03:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋