04-14-2004, 03:07 PM
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Pixies Den Mother
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: No-Hockey Land, dammit!!
Posts: 11,897
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Originally posted by having_fun
Still not quite, JFK changed the agreement, He ordered the change from advisors to combatants, which authorized the deployment of full military combat units to the conflict.
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And LBJ lied when he said our troops were attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin just so he'd have reason to send combatant troops.
I don't think there were any U.S. combatants on the ground in Vietnam prior to JFK's assassination. But I may be wrong. PF, can you help me out here?? |