Dole-Mondale debate excerpt

As far as it being "JFK's mess", only 300 people died under him. It's true he made terrible mistakes like assassiating Diem, that got us into the war even deeper, but it was LBJ who really escalated it so the blame lies with him.

Yea! Like those 5,000 dead soldiers under Democrat G.W. Bush!

Well, I was specifically refering to Vietnam and later Somalia.

20 people died in Somalia, and more than half the casualties in Vietnam were under Nixon. But I guess Dems can be called "peaceniks" one minute, then warmongers then next, whatever wins elections for the repubs, right..?

Vietnam was JFK's mess. Nixon got us out of there.

Not really, his campaign promise in '68 was to "bring an honorable end" to the war, but 25,000 more troops were killed under him and we wound up fleeing Saigon in the middle of the night, 6 years later! That's not what I call an "honorable" end..

Hell, Bush's spending record and increase in government spending programs makes him look like a democrat

Just goes to show you that Republicans NEVER stand for the things they purport to!

No sorry that's an old repub. lie, repubs. always spend as much if not more than Democrats. But the difference is Dems are open about spending with the American people, repubs lie about it and then use no-bid contracts in the private sector, driving up national debt. Look up the numbers, Clinton was the one who balanced the budget and left us with a surplus.

While Democrats play the race card anytime you oppose their Dearest Leader.