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StarTrombone

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1. So rather than using tactical nukes to bring the conflict to an end

Reply to UTUSN (Original post)

Sun May 29, 2016, 10:51 AM

May 2016

We got fucking LBJ sending my generation into his damned meat grinder in S.E. Asia

A meat grinder he lied his ass off about The Gulf of Tonkin to get us further entrenched in that quagmire BTW

You can stick your "renewal of appreciation for LBJ" where the sun don't shine

Years ago I traveled with some buddies to Johnson City to piss on his grave

The night in jail was worth it

I'll do it again if there is ever a "renewal of appreciation for LBJ" before I die

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So rather than using tactical nukes to bring the conflict to an end StarTrombone May 2016 #1

Your "generation" went, did you? I did. Do you get Medicare or anything else these days? n/t UTUSN May 2016 #4

I don't just "get" Medicare StarTrombone May 2016 #9

Ain't it great that the options for you to pay into it & pay monthly were made possible for you? n/t UTUSN May 2016 #12

It wasn't my choice StarTrombone May 2016 #14

Options include opting out. But somebody was instrumental in making it available, who could it *BE*? UTUSN May 2016 #15

There is no opting out of the payroll taxes StarTrombone May 2016 #16

Nuke Vietnam? Mendocino May 2016 #7

Do you piss on Nixon's grave too? US involvement in the war continued for his first term. stevenleser May 2016 #10

I'm a Vietnam veteran too. Where is Nixon's grave? I can piss on it and not get caught Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #17

It's in Yorba Linda, California at the Richard Nixon Library stevenleser May 2016 #20

Tactical nukes? Your solution to a civil war in Vietnam would have been to nuke it? muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #11

My solution would have been not to be there in the 1st place StarTrombone May 2016 #13

Listen to more Trump speeches to hear the "stupidest foreign policy" ever documented Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #18

Fair point ... "stupidest until now", then (nt) muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #21

Agent Orange wasn't exactly humane malaise May 2016 #19

It's that nukes go straight to the "we want to kill lots of foreigners" stage muriel_volestrangler May 2016 #22

Vietnam, Iraq malaise May 2016 #23

UNFORGETTABLE POLITICAL COMMERCIAL!!! Herman4747 May 2016 #2

K & R For the effective ad campaign against Goldwater. appalachiablue May 2016 #3

LBJ did some great things..... sendero May 2016 #5

I don't think LBJ was especially liberal or progressive per se. Doctor_J May 2016 #6

He was an FDR acolyte & those 4 things & making-them-happen are good enough Lib/Prog for me n/t UTUSN May 2016 #8