>>>>>>>I think many people participating in this thread are upset by the outcome, is like they really wanted to have a nice excuse to atack Iran. Pathetic.
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>>>>>>And you got this idea from where, Einstein?
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>>>>>From a message in a bottle. Took quite a while to float from Tonkin Bay.
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>>>>Any names inside the bottle?
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>>>Just initials - LBJ.
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>>Hmm, I didn't know he participated in this thread.
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>This was just a nod in the general direction of all the statesmen in the past who found (or created) good excuses to start wars they were already bent on.
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>Of course, you will outright dismiss http://alternet.org/waroniraq/49275/?comments=view&cID=619318&pID=619249#c619318 as biased, so we can just give up right here.


The Spanish-American War was not exactly our proudest moment, either. "A splendid little war," as someone called it at the time.