namvet
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Robert McNamara realized he made a mistake not long after he convinced JFK and LBJ to commit to the "war in Indochina. We lost 52K troops in Nam' because we blindly supported the troops. For what? McNamara already knew it was a lost cause years earlier. He said so in his memoirs years later. And here we are now, Geo. W. Bush uses phony pretenses to invade Iraq in 2003 with phony weapons of mass destruction. Then it was called the Bay of Tonkin incident . My brother was on one of those ships in the bay, says he slept through it. But he did load bombs on planes later. Nobody seems to remember the attack on the ships in the bay of Tonkin. Anyone help me here? Might be historic, one way or the other.
LBJ was weak and feeble. he was McNamaras' lap dog. who lead LBJ around on a leash. I don't for sure about the Tonkin Gulf incident if it was real or contrived. and I don't think any real evidence exist one way or the other. I didn't get over till 66 and by then it was in full swing