If the Democrats hadn't cut off funding, would the Republicans still be bombing Vietnam now?

Question

Weren't they satisfied with killing four million people whose only crime was wanting to be free?

Answer 1

Yea and also we should smoke hookas and listen to Grateful Dead while jamming on our guitars in our VW Van after the flower design paint has dried.

Answer 2

check very carefully. You will see that JFK (Dem)was president when the first combat troops were committed in Vietnam. LBJ was President when the Vietnam war was escalated. Nixon was in office when we withdrew from that country. Also you should check into the reason that war started. The north Vietnamese invaded South Vietnam. They are ethnically different. they were also 2 different types of political systems. The North being Socialist(communist actually) and the south capitalist. You should also check into the number of casualties suffered by the south after the war ended. They were forced out into the country with no food or way of making a living. A lot of them starved to death. South Vietnam suffered more casualties than North Vietnam. A lot of them were victims of war crimes that nobody ever talks about. There is a bit of a struggle still going on there although it is no longer with weapons. You should read up on it. it is really interesting.

Answer 3

Simply stated, we would have been victorious. The North Vietnamese were defeated - they lost every major battle fought in Viet Nam, including the infamous TET offensive.
They won that war the same way the terrorists will win this one if the liberals succeed in their demented agenda of surrender.
What do you find so appalling about an American victory over this psychotic ideology of hatred and domination?

Answer 4

Ironically it was the Democrats that got suckered into that one when Kennedy sent 'advisers' then troops, Nixon actually managed to get a truce agreement 10 years later but naturally because it is their country as soon as our troops ran off the Vietcong took over, but hardly 'freedom' It was Watergate and domestic problems that gave the Republicans a way out of that one. One generation of Americans learned a lesson from it but they weren't in power for long regardless of party.

Answer 5

Was it the Republicans or the Democrats who sent the first combat troops to Vietnam?

How about Korea?

How about World War II?

Gee, I think I see a trend here.

Answer 6

Spoken like a true-blue, anti-American, left wing Algore liberal. Thank you for asking that inane question. You've once again shown the rest of the country just how utterly out of touch with reality you and your left wing cronies really are.

Answer 7

study up on your history some, you are talking ****
General Dwight D. Eisenhower commanded Allied forces in Western Europe during World War II. Following the war, he served as supreme commander of NATO forces before being elected America's 34th president. He held the nation's highest office from 1953-61, during which time he provided military aid to the French in Indochina, but refused to commit U.S. troops there.

A senator from Massachusetts, John Kennedy was elected president of the U.S. in 1960, becoming the youngest person ever to hold the post. Kennedy tripled the amount of American aid to Vietnam and increased the number of U.S. military advisors there; his administration supported the overthrow of South Vietnam's Ngo Dinh Diem. Three weeks after Diem died in a murderous coup, Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.


John F. Kennedy's vice president, Lyndon Johnson assumed the presidency when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. Johnson's domestic initiatives pumped money into education, housing, transportation, and the environment. He easily won a second term, but despite campaign promises to the contrary, he steadily increased U.S. involvement in Vietnam, and his popularity plummeted. On March 31, 1968, Johnson publicly announced that he had reduced bombing campaigns in North Vietnam and that he would not seek reelection.


Richard Nixon served as a U.S. senator from California, then as Dwight Eisenhower's vice president. Defeated by John Kennedy in the presidential race of 1960, he came back to win the presidency in 1968 and again in 1972. In his first term, Nixon carried out a policy of "Vietnamization," whereby many U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam and replaced by members of the South Vietnamese army. Nonetheless, American troops remained on the ground and the Nixon administration continued to provide supplies and air support for the Vietnamese, and expanded the war into Laos and Cambodia. The last American forces left Vietnam during Nixon's second term. In the wake of the Watergate scandal, Nixon became the first president to resign from office. Following his resignation, he slowly secured a name for himself as an elder statesman in matters of foreign policy. He died in 1994.

Answer 8

As I recall, the Viet Nam war was started by JFK and escalated by LBJ (democrats). Nixon (republican) ended it.

Answer 9

Yes. They would.

I've asked a couple of times what's wrong with coming up with an exit strategy, and they all say that if we EVER pull out of Iraq, we will look weak.

Clearly, what is important to them is not fighting a good war, but just fighting ANY war. It's one big pissing contest.

Answer 10

Very good question.

If the neocons were in charge in 1973, the war would of never ended. We got beat by peasants on bikes, sad, but true.