Vietnam Moratorium

Iraq vs Vietnam

Iraq	Vietnam
Hidden History Before most Americans had ever heard of Iraq, US oil companies wanted a bigger piece of Iraq's huge reserves. Under Reagan, the US backed Iraq and Iran against each other in a deadly war, during which Donald Rumsfeld arranged deadly weapons to be shipped to Saddam Hussein. After that war ended, the US ambassador assured Saddam that the US had no dog in a fight between Iraq and Kuwait. When Saddam then invaded Kuwait, President Bush (41) launched the Gulf War.	Hidden History Before most Americans had ever heard of Vietnam, the government sided with France against Vietnamese (and Laotian and Cambodian) movements fighting for independence. When the French were roundly defeated at Dien Ben Phu and left, the US took over the South of Vietnam. President Eisenhower had scheduled national elections there cancelled because the George Washington of Vietnam, a nationalist and communist named Ho Chi Minh, was going to win them. This insured a divided country and a renewed anti-colonial war—against the U.S.
A Foundation of Lies A day after the 9/11 attacks in NYC and Washington, DC, President Bush (43)'s Defense Secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, told aides to start preparing for an invasion of Iraq. When no evidence could be found to even suggest a connection between Iraq's Ba'athist government and the 9/11 attacks, the White House and the Pentagon concocted a tissue of lies about Iraq's chemical and nuclear "weapons of mass destruction," which posed an "imminent threat" to the United States, or might have, except they didn't exist. Congress quickly passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution in October 2002, authorizing President Bush to use military force to "defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq." In March 2003, Iraq was bombed for three weeks before the invasion began. The war was raging.	A Foundation of Lies The big US military push into Vietnam came after what President Johnson denounced as two savage attacks by North Vietnamese torpedo boats on US destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin off North Vietnam in August, 1964. No harm was done to the vessels, which is not too surprising, because the first attack was provoked and the second never happened at all. Nevertheless, Congress quickly passed the Southeast Asia Resolution, giving Johnson the power to take "all necessary steps, including the use of armed force." By March 1965, U.S. bombers were hitting North Vietnam regularly and Thousands of marines were landed at Danang. The war was raging.
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