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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBilly Graham regarding Vietnam
In a 13-page letter, that Rev. Graham had forwarded to the White House in April, 1969, it was stated: There are tens of thousands of North Vietnamese defectors to bomb and invade the North. Why should all the fighting be in the South?
Especially let them bomb the dikes which could over night destroy the economy of North Vietnam. Mr. Bothwell underscored that such a military action against the dikes, a huge complex of earthworks, would probably kill a million people and wipe out an already poor nations agricultural system He added that the advice in Grahams transmittal fell on receptive ears. Not longer after, Nixon moved the air war north and west.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2007/09/27/a-prince-of-war-exposed/
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exboyfil
(18,348 posts)1. A Nazi at Nuremberg
was executed for doing this in Holland. The article mentions it later.
SaintLouisBlues
(1,257 posts)2. Who would Jesus bomb?
Hypocritical POS.
jeffreyi
(2,540 posts)3. Billy was not a good man.