Why Vietnam? (1965)

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Why Vietnam?
AVA08194VNB1, 1965

The program outlines U.S. policy as stated by President Johnson. Includes Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

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[8Grams0fat]

Like this if Mr. Wick sent you here

[DanDood11]

Why Vietnam?

Never gets old.

[Tangereandream]

US policy was not without it's flaws. Seen by many as Kennedy's propping up a small elite supporters of a foreign culture(French) and religion (Roman Catholic) in a country overwhelmingly y (99.6%)Buddhist. While the so called "free" elections in the South were not free since anyone supporting the Vietminh were excluded in direct contravention of the Geneva Treaty of 1954. Many of the people fighting Deme (a dictator) were those who had gone north as per that treaty back home. Vietnam was hell

[Tangereandream]

LBJ was one of the "Good Guys".. The US Military all pursued the Communist vermin to the best they could while hemmed in by "political" interference all the way to the White House . But a "Limp-wristed Yellow-Belly" Congress stabbed the guys in the back, deserted the principles enunciated by LBJ. As for Poland what has it got to do with this stuff, got to do with S.E.A Probably the person beefing about Poland (part of the "Warsaw Pact") .was not born when the first U.S guy died. truncated

[randy95023]

Following WW2 the Japanese pulled out of French Indochina. Vietnamese people opposed the return of the French and the subjugation of once again being a French Colony. Ho Chi Minh sought aid from USA and was rebuffed. Ho then sought aid from China, even though Vietnamese have never liked the Chinese. USA then labeled Ho as a Communist and entered into the Vietnamese Civil War to prop up a puppet regime friendly to the West. We picked a loser and shouldn't have been there. Simple really...

[marktsheppard]

where the mentality and mind-frame of the Yankee-all-Americans is how the Polish-citizens in Poland are used-to and accustomed to being subjugated and taken advantage of... and ruled-over... because this is how extremely-shallow the Yankees and the British/English are... and this is why when the nation of Poland joined the European-Union... the British/English lifted restrictions... for the Polish-workers to be allowed to have the privilege of cleaning-up after the British/English-slave-masters

[marktsheppard]

because the President-Kaczynski character... is a terrible representative of what a Polish leader looks like... and to add to the confusion... is how the US-Yankee-Army in Europe... jumped-on the opportunity of a life time... AFTER the so-called senior-military-Polish-leaders­hip crash-landed in Russia... and how the Yankee-CIA-agents... who also can speak the Polish language... moved-in... and are buying-out Poland... and have purchased and took-over the nation of Poland for their own interests

[marktsheppard]

...because I am tired of the insulting Polish jokes... and also tired of the negative German stereotypes of how the Germans are this-and-and-that... and how they Germans AFTER WW2 in Germany are so dysfunctional and sick-in-the-head... and bla bla bla... because the simple fact of life is... is how those West-Germans are NOT Germans... NOPE!!! ...and are all impostors... and so everyone will continue hating anyone who is German... or looks German... and the same can be said for the Polish people

[marktsheppard]

...and this is how the brain-fucking-political-psycho­logy works-and-functions... where if I was to be in-charge of my own nation... and to kick-OUT all the Yankee-investors... who have and are taking advantage of the Polish-workforce... then I would have the political-psychologists accuse me of being a Communist... yet I am also claiming the land/turf formerly know as Germany... and then West-Germany... which continues to be West-Germany... as my-own... and my-own home-turf! and my own land!

[marktsheppard]

...and one of the observations in to the definition of the word of "Communism" ...is how in different lands and in different countries... it meant different things... and back-then... and during the Vietnam-conflict for independence... the selling point of Communism was how it was ANTI-Colonialism... and so the local people will NOT be subjugated or taken advantage of... or exploited which is exactly what happened in Poland... the last time that I visited... and earned one(1)-dollar-an-hour!

[Truth3w3]

@grahamc92 I need to tell you that this video is by no means "without bias." In fact, that statement, "propaganda video... without bias," is an oxymoron. Maybe it was a joke, I don't know. But please think critically about the video. Good luck.

[grahamc92]

propoganda video- research videos without bias