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Old 01-04-2010, 08:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Billybob View Post
In fact it was Truman who started us on the road when in "September 1950 - Truman sends the Military Assistance Advisory Group (MAAG) Indochina to Vietnam to assist the French. The President claimed they were not sent as combat troops, but to supervise the use of $10 million worth of US military equipment to support the French in their effort to fight the Viet Minh forces."
Yeppers, and American WW2 surplus weapons were sold to Uncle Ho during the Truman administration......

Not that I think Truman was a bad president. Actually, I think Truman might well have been our best president. Democrats were actual patriotic Americans in those days, unlike now.
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