The government would feed the public this false information to make it appear as if the United States was winning the war and almost had the Vietnam conflict under control. But this web of lies would soon unravel when the media started traveling to Vietnam to collect information about the war for themselves. And when they discovered that the actual truth of what was really going on was completely opposite to what the government had been telling to the American public. Reporters started to expose the truth to the public back home through televised news reports and articles in the news paper. .
Thus leading the uproars and riots by the American public demanding our troops to be returned home and for the United States to end their involvement. Soon the protests started to escalate past the problems of the United States lying to the public and into matters such as the draft being increased dramatically from 3,000 to 30,000 a month by October 1965. Due to the fact that not everyone had money for college, a lot of the young men from poor working class families were drafted while the rich had the luxury of being able to draft-dodge by simply attending school. .
Another reason on why I believe the Vietnam war and the policies that followed were not justified up to its completion in addition to the fact it was based on lies is that there were many human rights were violated As many innocent civilians lives were brutally taken by the hands of U.S soldiers and by the use of extremely powerful chemical weapons that were used in Vietnam against international law such as the Geneva contract. But before I continue with this point I must say that I understand that our soldiers were fighting a war, which can be gruesome and sometimes they would have to do unthinkable things to survive. But that alone does not justify why over 500,000 Vietnamese civilians including women and children were killed during our involvement in the war.