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> The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: ...Vietnam Fact Check 101. US Presidents involved in
by OrvalWintermute 5y ago
> The merchants of bullshit are the same cast of characters, on the same side of the political spectrum: ...Vietnam
Fact Check 101. US Presidents involved in Vietnam
Kennedy (D)
Johnson (D)
Nixon (R)
While they may have been sociopaths, I have no idea about that, they were definitely not a member of the same political party, or highly similar.
Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War
- dragonwriter 5y ago> US Presidents involved in Vietnam It’s kind of surprising for someone who doesn't go with the “Vietnam started with Johnson” line not to go back to Eisenhower.
- freen 5y agoRobert Strange McNamara was a Republican. As were the cast of characters who were largely responsible for the disinformation campaign inside the pentagon that lead up to the Vietnam war: Team B. Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Seymour Weiss, etc. some of those names should be familiar for their continued subsequent enthusiastic support of obviously brain dead massively deadly clusterfucks. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_B Just for good measure, let’s add watergate and iran contra too. Didn’t Ollie North end up running the NRA for a hot minute? Classic carnie move. Where is the GOP health care plan that Trump was promising was almost ready for years and years? Classic carnie move.