"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"

Popular anti-war chant during the Vietnam War era.

Kennedy was planning to pull back from Vietnam (fighting had been going on there since the 1940s), which is surely one of the major reasons JFK was assassinated. War is big money; Kennedy was planning to turn off the spigot. LBJ opened it wide, and got 58,000 American troops killed while also killing between a million and 2.5 million Vietnamese, Laotians, and more. Hard to be precise on the body count when you're carpet bombing the jungle, dusting vast areas with Dioxin / Agent Orange (still causing cancer and birth defects), using napalm widely, and so on.

We failed to keep South Vietnam out of the hands of the Communists, but the war was a major success for defense contractors and the Deep State.

"Hey, hey, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today?"

Popular anti-war chant during the Vietnam War era.

Kennedy was planning to pull back from Vietnam (fighting had been going on there since the 1940s, which is surely one of the major reasons JFK was assassinated). War is big money; Kennedy was planning to turn off the spigot. LBJ opened it wide, and got 58,000 American troops killed while also killing between a million and 2.5 million Vietnamese, Laotians, and more. Hard to be precise on the body count when you're carpet bombing the jungle, dusting vast areas with Dioxin / Agent Orange (still causing cancer and birth defects), using napalm widely, and so on.

We failed to keep South Vietnam out of the hands of the Communists, but the war was a major success for defense contractors and the Deep State.