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chickentribs · 05-31-2005, 08:18 PM

Mephisto, I really enjoyed it for several different reasons. I was born in the Vietnam era and always felt I should know more about the escalation and why we couldn't stop it. I could give you basic facts on the war - but obviously they weren't teaching us much about it in public schools late 70's, early 80's. This was focused on a lot of the day to day dealings, alliances, and broken agreements that put us there.

I was a bit worried that it would become an infomercial for Robert McNamara to defend himself and the Johnson administration and put another spin on the justification for war. Love him or hate him, I was impressed with McNaMara's candor and what I thought was a bit of honest soul searching that could not have been easy for him. My liberal friends call it Sympathy for the Devil, I thought it was the most impressive documentary I have seen in a long time.

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chickentribs Addict Location: Mansion by day/Secret Lair by night	Mephisto, I really enjoyed it for several different reasons. I was born in the Vietnam era and always felt I should know more about the escalation and why we couldn't stop it. I could give you basic facts on the war - but obviously they weren't teaching us much about it in public schools late 70's, early 80's. This was focused on a lot of the day to day dealings, alliances, and broken agreements that put us there. I was a bit worried that it would become an infomercial for Robert McNamara to defend himself and the Johnson administration and put another spin on the justification for war. Love him or hate him, I was impressed with McNaMara's candor and what I thought was a bit of honest soul searching that could not have been easy for him. My liberal friends call it Sympathy for the Devil, I thought it was the most impressive documentary I have seen in a long time. __________________ Oft expectation fails... and most oft there Where most it promises - Shakespeare, W.