communist expansionism. the record was pretty clear that it was aided and abetted, conflict came from the north. it had aid from stosoviet union china and that is what we were trying to stop. there were a lot of things wrong with the planning, with the leadership in the white house and we know a lot more afterwards. so it is real easy for someone who didn t serve to give us a retrospective lisk ke he did, bi remember at the time when the majority of the american people supported what we were doing in vietnam. they knew it was about containing com new micew commun he said he was making up for it now. would you have liked to serve? i would not have minded but i think i make up for it now. $700 billion this year i gave