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Article #1343Re: Fear and loathing in America
From: BA
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:20
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 22:20
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Murray Cooper wrote
> The administration:
>
> a) cynically lied
> b) didn't know what the hell they were talking about
> c) both
>
> What's your guess?
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Both, and it smells an awful lot like the Johnson administration's
blundering into Nam. Those "Whiz Kids," "The Best & the Brightest," charged
right into that tarbaby, with one hand tied behind their back. As for
now-documented lies, just surf the net. The whopper, of course, was "Gulf of
Tonkin Incident," which LBJ used as a pretext to ratchet up the draft.
"History may not repeat, but it rhymes." - Mark Twain
BA
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