Class of 1976 Wrote:
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> Dems Have to Investigate Dems Wrote:
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> > F you about Nixon bitch . Im alive because he
> > lowered the Vietnam troop death toll . His
> > policy's ended that war that your Democrat LBJ
> > started and could not find the balls to pull
> out
> > of
>
> The Vietnam War for America started under
> Eisenhower, who sent in American advisors and also
> sent Nixon to visit South Vietnam. American
> support for the Diem administration under
> Eisenhower may have made things worse, since Diem
> used it to defeat his non-communist rivals. The
> Eisenhower administration also started U.S.
> military involvement in Laos. There is
> significant evidence to suggest that while running
> for office in 1968 Nixon undermined U.S. peace
> efforts by urging South Vietnam to withdraw from
> the peace talks.
>
> That the Nixon administration was behind the
> Watergate break in/bugging was widely known in the
> days leading up to the 1972 election. Nobody
> cared. McGovern was an unpopular candidate even
> among Democrats, and in late October 1972 the
> Nixon administration announced that peace was at
> hand. This is something you would have remembered
> if you were of draft age when the war ended. What
> got Nixon into trouble was the massive effort to
> cover up his involvement and the other activities
> that were uncovered in the investigation.
Your take is slanted to the left as you start with the beginning and go right to the end .
Nixon was not even president until Jan 20 1969 and could not flick a switch to turn the war off like Obama thought he could do and failed as he told Americans he could.
Not a word out of you about Nixon's (Republican) massive use of US air power to end the troop deaths or reducing friction with communist china to get the war ended .
McGovern was a US pilot in WW2 and earned the Distinguished Flying Cross in combat but he was not presidential material , he was just another Democrat promising to end the war with no plan . In 1969 when Nixon took office and authority over the raging US war in Vietnam the troop death toll was 11780 , In 1970 Nixon got it down to 6173 By 1971 the US the troop death count was 2414 by 1972 it was 759 by 1973 it was 68 and when Nixon left office in 1974 it was 1 . The US Marines left Vietnam as a fighting force in 1971
When LBJ was President (Democrat) the Vietnam death toll was 36350 for the years 1964 65 66 67 and 68. In 1963 it was 122 under JFK primarily as LBJ took office the day JFK was shot on Nov 22 1963 . From 1956 when records first started with US Vietnam deaths to 1963 200 Americans died in Vietnam . Then Democrat Johnson and Democrat Ford Motor Co Wiz Kid Robert McNamara took over the show and upped the count with Johnson micro managing the war to the point US pilots could not hit MIG bases right below them because LBJ was afraid Russian flight trainers or aircraft mechanics would be killed
Nixon ended the US war death toll of ground troops and paved the way to the final exit from Vietnam in April 1975 , but the slanted Democrat loving liberal news media of then and today never give Nixon the credit he deserved after Democrats started the huge killing machine in earnest , even back then young people were BS about it to vote Democrat .
Facts:
https://www.archives.gov/research/military/vietnam-war/casualty-statistics