[Vision2020] Presidential Rankings (2009)

[Tom Hansen]

Kai Eiselein stated:

"For some reason Vietnam and Kennedy are kept conspicuously separated in 
history textbooks, even though Kennedy's actions led the U.S. directly 
into the Vietnam war."

US involvement in Vietnam goes back alot further than JFK, Mr. Eiselein.  
Try 1949 when Ho Chi Minh approached President Truman applying for US 
assistance in seeking independence from French Indochina.  At the same 
time, the French (under President Vincent Auriol) were claiming that Ho 
Chi Minh was a Communist sympathizer and could not be trusted.  Due to 
our "love affair" with the French ever since our Revolutionary War 
(remember Marquis De Lafayette?), we chose to refuse assistance to Ho Chi 
Minh.

There yo uhad Ho Chi Minh seeking independence from French Indochina, 
having just been refused assistance by the US, looking for an ally.

Guess where he turned, Kai?

Look it up/  This, you WILL find in your history books.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho



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