Vietnam escalated after Kennedy was shot. That war was a lie from the start. Read Daniel Ellsberg's memoirs. Read the Pentagon Papers. It was all bullshit, just like Iraq, just like Afghanistan. The tactics that the CIA learned from the Viet Cong were taught to the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Afghanistan was designed to be the Soviet Union's "Vietnam". Now, America is fighting the Soviet Union's "Vietnam".Does that mean that Republicans are ready to take responsibility for the failed Iraq crusade?That's ridiculous. For once let's just blame it on the citizen. Not GWB, not FOX, etc... It's time to take responsibility for personal action and not blame it on someone else.
-Geaux
The Democrats voted for it before they voted against it.
BTW, have the Democrats ever taken the responsibility for the Vietnam fiasco?
If you call 4,000+ casualties in Iraq/Afganistan "failed crusade", what do you call the 55,000+ casualties in Vietnam?