Reply #6: Glad you asked. Let's start with George H W Bush and Vietnam.

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George Herbert Walker Bush was a proponent of the war in Vietnam, as long as poor kids fought the war and not his smirking, drunken son, George Walker Bush. Like the Gulf War (Saddam's going to attack Saudi Arabia) and the current Iraq Invasion (Saddam's going to nuke a US city), America's big involvment in the Vietnam War began over phony evidence -- the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, a a trumped-up "attack" that never happened. After a decade of slaughter, Bush's richie rich friends became very, very richie rich.

Tom Hayden reminds us of this side of George H W Bush -- the guy was pro-war to the point of lying about anyone who opposed Vietnam - or even the facts of the war. Gee. Bush lied to the American people about war. That's un-American. Sounds too familiar today...

You Gotta Love Her: Jane Fonda Was Right and Bush Was Wrong

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Erased from public memory is the fact that Fonda's purpose was to use her celebrity to put a spotlight on the possible bombing of Vietnam's system of dikes. Her charges were dismissed at the time by George H.W. Bush, then America's ambassador to the United Nations, who complained of a "carefully planned campaign by the North Vietnamese and their supporters to give worldwide circulation to this falsehood." But Fonda was right and Bush was lying, as revealed by the April-May 1972 White House transcripts of Richard Nixon talking to Henry Kissinger about "this shit-ass little country":

NIXON: We've got to be thinking in terms of an all-out bombing attack.... I'm thinking of the dikes.

KISSINGER: I agree with you.

NIXON: ...Will that drown people?

KISSINGER: About two hundred thousand people.

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