For 11 years, the most powerful nation in the world made every effort to defeat a nationalist revolutionary movement in a tiny poor country, and failed. The French had been trying to conquer take over long before, but they too had to withdraw at some point after fighting for long with no victory. The U.S., being the ?Yankee imperialists? that we are, took it upon ourselves to help ?protect the world? from communism. The Domino Theory developed in 1950, backed their beliefs by saying if one country in the surrounding area fell to communism, other would so the same, and the courageous Americans had to stop this. For 11 years this is what the public were told and believed. It was a patriotic act and was certainly justified in order to prevent the spread of communism. Why then were homes being burned and thousands of innocent civilians executed? Was there really a need for twice the amount of bombs used in Europe and Asia during World War II? In August 1964, President Johnson used a ridiculous lie in order to launch a full-scale war on Vietnam. Johnson and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara stated that the U.S. destroyer underwent an unprovoked attack while on routine control in international waters. A few lies here and t

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Students claimed that no black person should fight for a while mans freedom, until they had theirs back at home. First, it was not a routine patrol because the ship was on a special spying mission. ?Operation Phoenix? secretly and without trial executed at least twenty thousand civilians who were suspected of being members of the Communist underground. They fired on military villages and the everyday poor villages. In addition, it was not in international waters, but in Vietnamese territorial waters. destroyer, and first world power? Pretty bad lie if you ask me. The first signs of opposition came out with the Civil Rights movement. A Buddhist pagoda and Catholic Church was ?accidentally? bombed 3 times in one year. here, leave out the important details, and you?ve got yourself a justified war. When it reached America, the government chose not to acknowledge it, while the people began protesting and having demonstrations against it, realizing what they were doing was wrong and was all lie. This news deeply affected the soldiers there. Another incident on March 16, 1968 was another seemingly unnecessary action taken against these poor people.

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Maxwell Taylor, Operation Phoenix, Southeast Asia, Robert McNamara, Domino Theory, South Vietnam, , Civil Rights, Muhammad Ali, Tonkin Resolution, south vietnam, mans freedom, world communism, yankee imperialists, international waters,

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