But within months, it was clear Johnson was lying. In early 65, the U.S. had started bombing North Vietnam. By the spring, the first troops were sent to South Vietnam. Within a few years, we had hundreds of thousands of troops there, all in the name of stopping communism. Many of our soldiers died. But many, many more Vietnamese died. We pulverized that country with bombing and poisoned it with napalm and Agent Orange. When all was said and done, we had lost 55,000 people; the Vietnamese had lost 3 million.
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