On Fri, 23 Jan 2004 1050 -0700, "Admin" wrote:

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>"Lone Haranguer" wrote in message
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>> Thom wrote:
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>> > On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 05:02:46 GMT, Richard Rongstad
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>> >>"unknown" the lumpenproletariat tool of the politburo wrote:
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>> >>>Meanwhile Kerry was pissing on his Vietnam buddies while fawning over
>> >>>his hero JFK who started the Vietnam War.
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>> > 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.
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>> Advisers were already there under Truman and we were helping the French.
>> Dummy.
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>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.

few people relaize that there were 26 countries with troops of one
kind or anotherin Viet Nam including Canadians by the way.

I do agree with your point about truman but you can go back even
further to the OSS during WW2. In this discussion you have to find a
central flash point that started the shooting and that was OCT 1955
when we refused to live up to our promises for an election. I do
conceed there are other flash points but this was the big one that did
it.

RE: SEATO, probably ANSUS replaced it.

THOM
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