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@jj-adams saidYou conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.
How is what I said any different than the reference you posted?
"The first advisers went to Viet Nam when Eisenhower was president. Soon after President John F. Kennedy sent military advisors. US forces in Vietnam began to grow slowly. By the time President Johnston was in office, the US troop build up was accelerated. Before Johnson decided not to run for reelection in 196 ...[text shortened]... or so advisors in Vietnam, all senior officers, not combat troops. We weren't committed in any way.
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@suzianne saidCarpet bombing is a now a violation
You conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.
of The Geneva Convention. It wasn't then.
https://www.leicestershirevillages.com/is-carpet-bombing-a-war-crime/
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@suzianne saidNixon got us OUT of Vietnam.
You conveniently forgot Nixon and his Agent Orange and his napalm and his carpet bombing, even though that was too little too late. The US had to leave in defeat in 1975.
Napalm, Agent Orange, and carpet bombing were going on long before he was president.
You people really do live in some kind of dream world.
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@jj-adams saidYou'll get no argument from me about weapons used...I was there
Nixon got us OUT of Vietnam.
Napalm, Agent Orange, and carpet bombing were going on long before he was president.
You people really do live in some kind of dream world.
Ford actually was president, when we finally left in 1975.
Nixon kept us there from 1968 until he left office,
in disgrace, in 1974.
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@jimm619 saidI seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
Ford actually was president, when we finally left in 1975.
Nixon kept us there from 1968 until he left office,
in disgrace, in 1974.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..
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@jj-adams saidTechnically you are correct, the Paris Peace Treaty,
I seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..
was signed in 1973....Combat continued until they
marched into Saigon in '75'
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@capacrapa saidNaw, no need to rehash that.
So yall hijack my thread to tell Nam stories? 🙄
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@jj-adams saidArmy not Air Force?
I seem to recall being in Thailand, US Army, when the US withdrawal and end of hostilities and the American withdrawal was announced.
It was in 1973.
That was after doing a tour in Vietnam in 1971.
Yes, we had troops there overseeing the pull-out until we finally left Saigon in '75, but Nixon ended the war..
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@capacrapa saidHardly........More like an aged hippy,
@jimm619
So you ARE a Redneck 😉
I knew it.
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