Whose fault was the Vietnam War?
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NIXON ESCALLATED IT AFTER CAMPAIGNING ON THE PLATFORM THAT HE'D 'BRING OUR BOYS HOME!!'  \n\nHE JUST DIDN'T TELL THE PUBLIC IT WOULD BE IN BODY BAGS.
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I would venture to guess they did not want a show down with the Soviet Union or China at the time. The Gulf of Tonkin incident was enough to justify escalating the war without a declaration.  You would think that sending 50,000 amercian boys and soldier girls to their deaths would've justified a declaration of war, but who am i to raise that argument.
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I agree wholeheartedly.  Vietnam took many lives, and disabled many others.  There should have been no more wars after that tragedy.\n\nThe government should just spend the money on keeping our country "attack proof" and stay out of other countries.
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They did use it During Vietnam.
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If the administration would have allowed unrestricted bombing of North Vietnam from the beginning of the war. I'd said 1 and 3. But seeing how Johnson wanted to approve every target, the best choice would be none of the above.The bombing was too little too late.
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The U.S. was totally not prepared for a war like Vietnam. If you've seen the movie Platoon, then you know that the troops had to fight in the jungle, definitely something they were not trained to do. Even though the US has learned guerrilla warfare from Korea, they were not ready for it to the extent of Vietnam. The government underestimated the Vietnamese capabilities and also did not realize that Russian and Chinese support of Vietname would be so detrimental to US.
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Ummm, would not suddam be to blame? Or does it have to be the fault of the US?
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Where the hell was i when we went back to Vietnam?!?!?!\n Trying to compare the Vietnam war to OIF is outrageously stupid. We went to into Vietnam because the french treated the Vietnamese like crap. As soon as we showed up the french jumped ship and left us high and dry then protested us being there. We got out of Vietnam war in 73. 75 is when Saigon fell. big difference, anyways  i digress. OIF happenede ecause saddam had al-queada training camps there. had his son uday purchase chemical weapons from the french and dutch. which he later used on the kurds. to assume that the vietnam war and OIF are the same is just retarded. Sam the communists stoped there take over of asia in vietnam. Research a thing called the domino effect.
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Even though we had all the technology, we lost to peasants on bicycles.\n\nThe same is coming in Iraq\n\nAs for the idiot "Polaris" below:\n\nNot everyone in Vietnam was American. You just dragged other nations into it so that you could push the responsibility for it on to others. Once again, the same in Iraq
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frustrating situation and rising resentment. I can't think of any other nations who supported the vietnam war, that was the problem. Drugs didn't have anything to do with vietnam, it was a domestic issue.
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Vietnam War, conflict in Southeast Asia, primarily fought in South Vietnam between government forces aided by the United States and guerrilla forces aided by North Vietnam. The war began soon after the Geneva Conference provisionally divided (1954) Vietnam at 17° N lat. into the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) and the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam). It escalated from a Vietnamese civil war into a limited international conflict in which the United States was deeply involved, and did not end, despite peace agreements in 1973, until North Vietnam's successful offensive in 1975 resulted in South Vietnam's collapse and the unification of Vietnam by the North.
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THANK YOU!\ni hated the people in my history class last year that refused to believe that, and that history was pointless! you're so right about the fact that iraq is a completely the same as vietnam!
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I'm sure somebody used em to describe Vietnam.   I think, though, that the issue they're talking about is our responsibility to provide stability in government. The removal of Saddam created a very real power vaccume in Iraq. (question of right/wrong in doing so aside) Simply leaving after getting Saddam, would have drawn even more condemnation from the world. The world would  be screamin at us for NOT doing something to help them. As it is, they're screaming at us FOR doing somehthing. Whether or not what we're doing is effective, is another story.
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Hi there.  I'm military, and I don't have any trouble seeing the parallels between the two. First, Viet Nam was a morally ambiguous war.  Lots of people thought we shouldn't have been there in the first place, and lots of people believed that our actions were doing more to prolong the war and harm the population than allowing the Communists to take over would have.  The enemy we fought was basically a guerilla force that used asymmetric warfare.  The management of the war was criticized as being (at times) militarily inept as well as fiscally wasteful.  Then, as now, there were unconvincing official pronouncements of progress from the administration's spin doctors. (How many times have we heard about the insurgency being played out, or that we had turned the corner, or that they were "on their last legs" as Dick Cheney said last summer?)  Then there's the whole sense that the war could drag on year after messy year without any clear hope of victory.      \n\n\nThere are, of course, important differences. In Viet Nam, there were front lines.  The enemy had territory, and they were far more numerous and cohesive than the Iraqi insurgency is.  The Viet Cong were an army, even if their hit hard then melt away tactics seem superficially like the Iraqi insurgents'.  US soldiers were largely draftees that did not want to be in the service at all, unlike our all-volunteer servicemen today.
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Interview a couple of veterans.  I was six or seven years old when hostilities started, but was involved in the evacuation of Saigon in 1975.\n  Go to Google.\n  Go to your local library.\n  Keep an open mind and realize that there are no truly unbiased opinions.  It was a war.  Don't let anybody white-wash it or demean those of us who went over there by referring to it as a 'conflict'.
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You're right...Congress should share the blame. It's easier to get angry at one particular person and fault them instead of looking at a group of people and figuring out what to do with them. I'm again the war in Iraq and a lot of people are quick to blame just Bush for it but they need to look at the people that gave him permission to go there. Congress should be held responsible for this war just as much as Bush is.
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I sure as hell didn't know we lost the Vietnam war. it served no porpoise so Nixon wisely pulled us out.I sure hope I didn't lose my legs in vane