On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:34:24 GMT, "RAM^3"
wrote:

Gunner wrote in
:

Most conservatives hold LBJ in contempt, both for his politics/agendas
and for his ****ing up the war in Vietnam, and killing so many good
men.


LBJ was no more a Conservative than was Mao Zedong.

As the protoge of both FDR and Sam Rayburn, LBJ was a radical liberal who
only masqueraded as a moderate.

All the "Social Programs" attributed to JFK were _dead_ until LBJ
"steamrollered" Congress into passing them "as a memorial to our beloved
President".


Big gold star.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner