They instituted a draft.........................dropped 7 MILLION tons.........of bombs............to participate in a civil war an ocean away..................to a country that posed no threat to the USA..........North Vietnam...........a heck of a lot of effort.....

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How many bombs were dropped in the Vietnam War?

By the end of the war, 7 million tons of bombs had been dropped on Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - more than twice the amount of bombs dropped on Europe and Asia in World War II.Sep 8, 2006

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Operation Rolling Thunder was the title of a gradual and sustained aerial bombardment campaign conducted by the U.S. 2nd Air Division (later Seventh Air Force), U.S. Navy, and Republic of Vietnam Air Force (VNAF) against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) from 2 March 1965 until 2 November 1968, during ...