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Vietnam Why Did We Go? The shocking Story of the Catholic "Church's" Role in Starting the Vietnam War

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For those of you out there like myself who grew up questioning why did the Vietnam War even happen? This is the book for you. It looks at the war in a way that many books about the Vietnam War have altogether ignored, or weakly hinted at. The truth is that Vietnam was a religious war! I have heard the stories from those who were personally there. Religious persecution was a fact of life for many poor Buddhist people living under a regime that followed pattern of the Papacy in times past and present. So those of you pseudo-intellectuals who think you know everything there is to know about the Vietnam War-get off your high horse, find humility fast! The only complaint I have with Arvo Manhattan is that he does not cite his sources. But that's not a real problem, you can get the same information discussed in his book off the internet. It's no real secret the Vatican stoked the fires of war. They also had help from prominent people in the Kennedy Administration. Get the reals facts of history-don't be afraid of the truth, it will only set you free. Get the book when you have a chance! If you buy in your lifetime one book on the Vietnam War, this is the book to get.

The fact that every review of this book so far was either five stars or 1 star should tell you something. Avid Catholics hate this book, and with good reason. And the Catholic Church is very powerful, so when an author lands on their banned reading list it's understandably difficult to find a publisher -- and any publisher found is bound to have been criticized many times before. Doesn't make any of the criticism valid. Ask yourself these questions: In a country that was 90+% Buddhist, why did the US prop up not just one but two successive corrupt Catholic administrations? And if our purpose was to bring democracy to the country, why were elections never held? This book brings such questions to light.

While you're at it, I also recommend "An American Requiem" by James Carroll. Carroll is a priest and a Vietnam war protester, but his father was a big muckety-muck in the Air Force and was a close associate of Cardinal Spellman. Carroll describes in considerable detail the workings that went on over the dinner table in his family's home. He provides an enormous amount of evidence in support of Manhattan's contentions without ever putting two and two together himself.

Wonderful to finally hear the truth about this war.

To answer an objection raised earlier: If Avro quoted another author this is only to give credit to the individual who discovered said information, not as the actaul source. For instance "Ngo Dinh Diem of the Roman Catholic Vitnamese minority was installed as president of South Vietnam." This information was not sourced since it is a matter of public record in the history of Vietnam, confirmed today in online encyclopedias. The reader can then look to the other author who may provide additional detail.

Sometimes the information was little known such as the fact that Bernhard Stempfle edited Mein Kampf. This was said to have been printed in the cover of the first German language edition of Mein Kampf. Several authors have noted Stempfle was either a Jesuit or an agent of the Jesuits. Even Wikipedia has had to admit Stempfle was in fact an editor of the book and that he belonged to an Order of monks subserviant to the Jesuits, confirming again the truth of the matter some would try and deny or bury.

Avro Manhattan was an anti-Catholic bigot who wrote for the National Secularist Society NSS in England. It was a cheap throw away propaganda mill for the anti-Catholic Seclarists. Propaganda is the name they called their own material back then. Avro Manhattan does not cite his sources and makes up his information.

At times Catholics can be presented with "facts" about the Catholic Church and find it difficult to respond because we have no idea where these "facts" are coming from, such as charges that the Vatican started WWI and WWII and here the Vietnam War, also in other books the war in Bosnia. We are told, or shown, that the author Avro Manhattan says so in his book and another Edmond Paris says the same thing. Some Catholics take the time to research, but find little to go on. Biographical information can be so vague that it is almost comical, or the original source for the biographical information is non-existent.

These books have publishers which most people have never heard of, and have over time been bought out by other publishers, and redistributed to a completely different audience sharing only an anti-Catholic agenda. When Avro Manhattan does cite his material it is usually "Edmond Paris" who appears to be the same person. Edmond Paris will cite Avro Manhattan as a source for his material.

The Edmond Paris books where originally published in Paris at the Grand Orient Masonic Lodge. Hardly an unbiased source since they considered themselves an enemy of the Catholic Church. Later, other publishers pick them up and republish. These are not scholarly works. The lack of credible references makes them worthless. Jack Chick of Jack Chick Comics is the latest anti- Catholic publisher of Avro Manhattans work. Pure trash.

About ten years ago, a brazilian protestant send this book, to I read this book for some days.It's very bad book, about Vietnam War, american history and Roman Catholicism.The basic idea of this book is that USA went to the Vietnam war, beeing ordered by RCC(Roman Catholic Church).This is a lie.

America went to the Vietnam's war, not because of Pope, but because of Cold War politic.America went to Vietnam, for the same reasons that American went to Haiti in 1965, Korea in 1950, etc.

JFK was a nominally catholic, but to tell, that the JFK's errors in Vietnam were from RCC is fake.In fact after JFK death in 1963, the number of americans in Vietnam didn't reduced, in fact it was increased.The same happened with the americans deaths in that region at the same time.

America went to Vietnam for Cold War's political and military reasons, not economic or religion reasons.