>My point was that we invaded Iraq under false pretenses, which I do not believe was the case in Viet Nam. You seem to be making a different argument, that the consequences of the Viet Nam war were worse. That I agree with.
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>Why did you pick the year 1976?
Church committee hearings, Carter elected, post-Vietnam reassessment of US position in the world leading to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan ...
The Tonkin Gulf incident was certainly more cynically ginned up than even Chalabi's tall tales about what was going on inside Iraq.
When it comes to flat out lying to the public, Bush and Cheney are amateurs compared to LBJ. He was truly the master.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
