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Oh! OK. I apologize for sounding irritated.

To he!! with anyone who wants to criticize the military. I know what I did. I did what I was told to do. We did what we were told to do. Here in DC they play the LBJ tapes on weekends and evenings on C-SPAN Radio. I catch them sometimes. What comes through to me, loud and clear, is the image of a truly sick and disgusting power-hungry man. In my book LBJ did as much harm to this country, if not more, than WJBC did. I would urinate on LBJ's grave in front of cameras if I could get away with it. I blame no one else. Not Mcnamara. Not Westmoreland. Not the Chiefs of Staff. Not the American public or the media. It all comes down to the failed human being in the name of LBJ.

Here in DC they play the LBJ tapes on weekends and evenings on C-SPAN Radio. I catch them sometimes. What comes through to me, loud and clear, is the image of a truly sick and disgusting power-hungry man.

Ike's reaction to Kennedy choosing Johnson as his running mate was,

"He is not a big man. He is a small man. He hasn't got the depth of mind nor the breadth of vision to carry great responsibility."

From page 521 of the Stephen Ambrose 1990 condensed biography of Ike.

here's some interesting history I read.

In summer of 64 there was a 'white paper' produced by a group called Institute For Policy Studies?. It was a brand new think tank established by a rich american couple who had previously been supporters of the american communist party. The IPS 'white paper' was a blueprint for our involvement in vietnam. It recommended that we put troops into south vietnam, but that we fight a restricted war, that we only protect the south and not ever go into the north to actually win.

This white paper was circulated only among top congressmen and others among the elite. It was not discussed in public, nor even released tothe public. But LBJ obviously used this as his blueprint because that's exactly what happened. It shows how decisions are made in america, behind closed doors, with the journalists, the politicians and even the academics purposely isolating the masses of the americans from any decision making or any knowledge about the decision making.

Somewhere around 65 president Johnson actually signed an order and saw to it that this order was circulated to each and every american military officer and that each and every military officer acknowledged that he read and understood the order. The order said that on the ground in south vietnam we were not even allowed to shoot at the enemy unless the enemy first shot at our troops and caused a casulaty on our side. I have no doubt that good people defied this order immediately.

But the whole thing demonstrates how truly bad a president LBJ was and how americans really had the wool pulled over their eyes by their own nation's elite who later blamed the americans for being stupid enough to fight in that war.