Admin wrote:
>
> "Lone Haranguer" wrote in message
> news:burh8i$ldrev$1@ID-192430.news.uni-berlin.de...
> > Thom wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:02:46 GMT, Richard Rongstad
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >>"unknown" the lumpenproletariat tool of the politburo wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>>>>.
> > >>>
> > >>>Meanwhile Kerry was pissing on his Vietnam buddies while fawning over
> > >>>his hero JFK who started the Vietnam War.
> > >
> > >
> > > Nope, big lie just like WOMD. Ike and Nixon started the Viet Nam War
> > > in the 50's. I suggest you check your bible and see how naughty you
> > > are for lieing.
> >
> > Advisers were already there under Truman and we were helping the French.
> > Dummy.
>
> I wonder if it is prudent to remind everyone about the South East Aisian
> Treaty Organization that the US was signatory to. Australia was on it as
> well, so was Korea, and many others. You will find that many of us served
> side by side regardless of Nationality. SEATO was what got us in there and
> that was done under Truman. SEATO was directly equivelant to NATO for the
> exact same reasons. SEATO is no more these days. Stalin won that round.


Knowing that the United Nations likes to take credit for management of
all the world's major treaties, I always figured that it was membership
in the U.N. that got the U.S. into Viet Nam by proxy, namely, SEATO.