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Old 06-25-2010, 03:38 PM   #212
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Originally Posted by Liam View Post
Vietnam wasn't about resources?

Herbert Hoover, later to become President of the United States did a study that showed that one of the world's largest oil fields ran along the coast of the South China Sea right off French Indo-China, now known as Vietnam.

We were in Vietnam to protect Standard Oil's assets— McCarthy's notions did a very good job of distracting folks from that reality.
I would not call the reserves off the coast of Vietnam as one of the largest in the world. It's not even in the top 25. Lots of countries have much larger oil reserves. I don't buy that oil was the reason for Nam.

http://world.bymap.org/OilReserves.html

http://www.wired.com/special_multime...08/oilreserves

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/en...y-oil-reserves (this one ranks Nam as number 41)
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