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Originally posted by smooth
You better double check your history on that. We "had no intention what so ever [sic] to create a colony there?"
Our involvement began with military and economic aid to the French who had already colonized Vietnam.
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Because the French were our allies and they were fighting against a communist-supported independence movement. Once they left and the country was split, we got involved to keep it split.
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