A question for the right-wing: Why do you people keep starting wars?

[Anonymous]

Im mean, I get that its importnt to you to prove that you are macho and all that, and that you are very worried that others will take revenge on you for your constant terrorism and and exploitation of others, and interference in their economies and cultures and generally shitty policies and racism, - but really - were Vietnam and Afghanistan and Iraq and Korea really necessary? Especially since you lost ALL of them? I realize you do this to make money and to prop up the US defense industry and it has been a tradition since after WW II (and maybe before), but is making rich people even richer worth all the bad press and bad feelings and anger you engender? Really?

[Lliam]

Johnson (D) is the one who ramped up the war in Viet Nam. He also gave the green light to Soharto to slaughter up to a million Indonesians.

Clinton (D) bombed Kosovo and Serbia.

O'Bomber (D) continually bombed 9 countries and utterly destroyed Libya. His administration also set in motion the circumstances that forced Russia to save Crimea from Ukrainian Nazis and Biden escalated it to a full blown war.

Both Republicans and Democrats whole heartedly supported genocide against Palestinians since 1948. Both parties supported Saudi aggression against Yemen.
Both parties engaged in regime change and aggression all around the world.

So it seems that both parties are war mongers. It's not just a right-wing thing. It's just what America does.

[FunkyMonkee]

Let's see, LBJ was a democrat who got us into Vietnam and almost started a war with Cuba. Nixon, a republican, got us out of Vietnam! Carter, a democrat, started shit with the middle east. Reagan, a republican, got us out of it! Biden, a democrat, funded the Russia/Ukraine war with our tax money! Trump, a republican, just got them to stop that war as well as one that's been raging for eons in the middle east!! So far, it looks like the republicans are always there to clean up the deep shit the democrats keep getting us into!!

[Asker]

This is the bonus pack of right - wing revisionist history LIES - !

[FunkyMonkee]

LMFAO!!! Look it up, loser!!!

[Asker]

What you have done here is simply distorted things multiple times to make it seem as if your account of the historical records of these presidents is accurate. Provide some evidence that it is. I'm not interested in arguing your opinions with you.

[NYCQuestions1976]

The first combat troops from the United States were sent into Vietnam in 1965. Lyndon Johnson was President. That's not an opinion. That's actual factual history.

[Asker]

@NYCQuestions1976 The first US military "advisors" were sent to Vietnam in September 1950. The President the was Truman, a Democrat. This initial deployment, known as the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG), aimed to assist the French in their fight against the Viet Minh during the First Indochina War. The advisors were not initially sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of U. S. military equipment - supposedly.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Our military advisors were sent to Vietnam after France requested our assistance during the Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations. However, military advisors aren't combat troops. The combat troops were sent by Johnson, after France requested additional military assistance from us. Then France conveniently left Vietnam, and left us holding the bag until Nixon ultimately pulled everyone out of there in 1973.

[Asker]

@NYCQuestions1976 Sure. "Advisors". My ass.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Whatever you call them, our military advisors started arriving in Vietnam in 1950 during the Truman administration, and our combat troops started arriving in Vietnam in 1965 during the Johnson administration. Both Democrats.

[Asker]

@NYCQuestions1976 you are right about that part.

[Anonymous]

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