Re: VIRTUAL JFK: Vietnam Had Kennedy Lived

Good point.

"Anthony Marsh" <anthony_marsh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> On May 1, 7:49 pm, "Gerry Simone" <newdecent...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> But didn't JFK begin to plan for the removal?
>>
>
> Yes, NSAM 263, signed shortly before the assassination was a “plan”
> that would have had the “bulk” (not “all” as many will tell you) of
> U.S. troops out of Vietnam by 1965.  The order says we, “should be
> able to withdraw the bulk of our troops” and not, “We will withdraw
> our troops in 1965 as so many people will tell you.
>
> This plan was based on the hope that the SVA would be trained enough
> to take over our mission by 1965.  Well, they wasn’t, the SVG was a
> mess in 1965 and the NVA units had come south by then so the plan
> wouldn’t have worked.  What JFK would have done when the plan failed
> is left to history.
>

But you are falsely assuming that the events of 1964 under Johnson would
have been the same under JFK had he lived.

> 1. http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/clips/1963_1002_vietnam_am/
> 2. 
> http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/clips/1963_1002_vietnam_pm/ind...
> 3. 
> http://tapes.millercenter.virginia.edu/clips/1963_1005_vietnam/index.htm
>
> These links are the discussion held to draft NSAM 263, if you have
> time check them out.  I believe McNamara planned on 3,500 Americans
> remaining in SVN including advisors at the battalion level.
>
> Bill Clarke
>