Bob gets specious, "Either those "advisors" were advisors, or those "advisors" were the same type of "advisors" sent in by Kennedy. If that is the case, then Eisenhower started the war."
Bob, it wasn't a compliment about being a "quibbler!"
The term 'liaison' is MY term, not any official epithet for military trainers who give advice to other nation's militaries. You want to use the term "advisor" to apply to just those military trainers who became officially known as Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) members - those Kennedy sent as "advisors" to that country.
Unfortunately for your contention, it was Truman who sent the first "advisors," and not just "advisers." That was because they were known as the Military Assitance and Advisory Group (MAAG), and so became "advisors."
Eisenhower, and a Democrat congress, increased funding for MAAG Vietnam, but which was just an incremental increase over that which Truman began.
Too bad you're so effectively brainwashed; also know as being "blinkered," by your slavish effort to make reality conform to your wishes. The MACV wasn't created until 1962, and if you want to apply it to Eisenhower, then the "advisors" he sent were equivalent to those sent by Truman, and under the same nomenclature, not Kennedy's MACV "advisors" who began Special Forces training of the South's counter insurgency program.
I've posted the links supporting the facts that Truman assisted and advised the French, and I've also provided the link which indicates that Eisenhower continued that assistance and sent additional military advisors (not MACV as Kennedy did) to support the French, and then the Vietnam government, created after the French withdrew.
If military "advisors" are the criteria for starting the war in Vietnam, then it is Truman who began that war, not Eisenhower.
All those who continue to believe otherwise are your equal in purposeful ignorance and near religious faith hoping to create a miracle which will change reality ... or a stooge for leftist propaganda used to dupe Democrats into believing outright lies.
"However I never said Eisenhower started the war, or that those men there were anything but advisors in the true sense."
Don't be disingenuous, why bring Eisenhower into the subject of a war started by a Democrat (Lyndon B. Johnson,) then?
"The United States was financing the French action in Viet Nam. It could be said that was, in effect, an act of war against Viet Nam. If you pay some one to beat someones ass, should the guy whose ass gets kicked give you a pass? In that sense, Eisenhower started the war. If any of this is untrue, please link to a correction."
I already have, dimwit! Besides which, if you weren't so self-blinded by your partisan efforts to defame Republicans, you'd get off your lazy, propagandistic ass and study the subject!
"You paranoid rightists see ghosts in every post. I simply state facts. If I am mistaken, I would welcome the correction. All you gotta do is prove whatever you say. I would say the obsession is yours."
You are out of your league, as I've mentioned before, Bob. Here is what was said that you originally replied to:
"49: Rastafuck: Liberals started the Vietnam war: Can you say Kennedy and Johnson?"
So, then why did you answer with this:
"The agreement for defense of Viet Nam came long before Kennedy and Johnson, and the first "advisors" were sent in under Eisenhower."
I've posted the links and you can now assure yourself that Truman sent the first "advisors."
Glad to assist your knowledge, Bob.