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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:10 PM Original message |
A question for those who lived through the Lyndon Johnson/Vietnam war era. |
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wakeme2008 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. more all the time but most not as big as some now |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. OK, yes...which is why this administration will continue to |
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Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:18 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Absolutely it was the draft that pushed people to react openly |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
2. the students marched because their asses were getting DRAFTED |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:31 PM Response to Reply #2 |
23. In effect, they're the same arguments -- |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:33 PM Response to Reply #2 |
25. And being a young woman back then marched so none of the young men in our |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
3. "The light |
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Richardo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:13 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. That, and the 'Domino Theory' |
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H2O Man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
7. Right. |
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lazer47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. They claimed the whole world would fall to communism |
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Sapere aude (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
8. Back then it was the domino theory. If South East Asia fell to the Communists so would all of Asia |
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southerncrone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
9. Draft was the driving force, plus |
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BobRossi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
10. Red menace. |
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charlyvi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:17 PM Response to Original message |
11. The media covered the marches then. |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
13. Lyndon was also afraid of losing. And he knew he had lost |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. I was only a teenager but iirc, yes, Johnson said the same things. |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:26 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. and we lived seeing the war on TV news every night |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:30 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. War has been sanitized. It's all about nationalistic crap now |
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trashcanistanista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:56 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. This is what I think did it |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:21 PM Response to Original message |
15. It was the same bullshit. Different bullshitter. And, LBJ was more cunning. |
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pink-o (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
16. It is a little creepy that a lot of the same playahs in Vietnam are doing Iraq today |
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VP505 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
17. I don't remember |
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ramapo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
18. Then came Nixon |
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ChickMagic (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. Plus Nixon's secret plan |
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Arkansas Granny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:30 PM Response to Original message |
21. The draft had a lot to do with the anti-war protests during the |
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Raven (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:37 PM Response to Reply #21 |
26. I was thinking that Johnson didn't live very long after he |
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bdamomma (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 06:36 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. and who ever thought of pre emptive war, striking them before |
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OmmmSweetOmmm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:32 PM Response to Original message |
24. I was a teenager then and never listened to his press conferences. I just wanted us out of Vietnam. |
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Hubert Flottz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. I remember how awful it felt watching the boxes come home... |
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mrcheerful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
28. Thats just it, after 1967 Johnson's speech's were not listened to for the main reason was |
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Dyedinthewoolliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 03:27 PM Response to Original message |
30. Communism! |
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demigoddess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jul-12-07 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
31. one other difference is that the war was covered nightly on the news. |
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