LBJ inherited that war and hated it. He was being lied to by Robert McNamara and company. I can’t put the total blame for that war on LBJ.HankB wrote:But look at what actually was done!Jumping Frog wrote: . . . Barack informs us that he's the 4th best president ever, with only Johnson, F.D.R., and Lincoln doing a better job just in terms of what he's gotten done in modern history.
Lyndon Johnson was unquestionably the WORST president in my lifetime, with his "Great Society" programs responsible for most of our national debt and the blood of tens of thousands of dead Americans in Vietnam on his hands, a war his treasonous meddling and micromanagement guaranteed would not be won. For BHO to actually praise the unspeakably vile filth that was LBJ does much to give insight into the man's character . . . and it's not a pretty sight.
LBJ did do a few good things while in office and as a bit of trivia, he was a member of the Army Air Force in WWII.
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“Mr. McNamara must not escape the lasting moral condemnation of his countrymen,” The New York Times said in a widely discussed editorial, written by the page’s editor at the time, Howell Raines. “Surely he must in every quiet and prosperous moment hear the ceaseless whispers of those poor boys in the infantry, dying in the tall grass, platoon by platoon, for no purpose. What he took from them cannot be repaid by prime-time apology and stale tears, three decades late.”