Thread: Letter to george and other "haters"--ali (cont.)
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Old 06-07-2016, 04:47 PM
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Please, if we are going to generalize and call all conservatives fools, let's at least be a little bit honest with our facts. Kennedy escalated the Vietnam War, Johnson really escalated it while simultaneously maximizing US casualties by tying the hands of our military, and Nixon ended the Vietnam War.

For the record, I am a big fan of Ali and JFK, and I don't have much good to say about Nixon or Johnson. I'm also a conservative.
Johnson did a lot of good on the civil rights front, no?

http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/johnson.htm
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