RBoon (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Your information is clearly incorrect.

deltapunk21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Mcnamara is a communist, he sabotaged the Vietnam War, and yes the motherrfucking attack DID HAPPEN! Even the NVA admitted it.

chetansingh2006 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The solution free the Native American and let them run the country

seopeter22 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

do yuo think rumsfeld will do the same thing as mcnamara? i strongly think so.

thetacogangsta (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

thats fucked up...its history repeating itself....some tragedy aoccurs and we go to war to kill more people....just like 911 and i wouldnt be surprised if 911 was actually a inside job orchestrated to give usa a reson to go to war.

JackJivewriter (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

There is a difference between escalation and invasion which you clearly don't understand. Hiltler waged invaded without provocation and staged the 'attack' of Poland by taking a criminal, suiting him up as a Polish soldier and shooting him. US soldiers were already fighting and dying in Vietnam to begin with. There was ONE attack on a destroyer and the other attack didn't happen. They were right once and wrong once if you kept watching the film.

funkyalfonso (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Ladybird Johnson was the major shareholder in Brown annd Root; a construction company that built Cam Rahn Bay and much else iin Vietnam. Brown and Root is a Haliburton company. Dick Cheney is just carrying on a tradition that goes back decades.

alexyhcrana (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

good point

beatlebonzo (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This war was legally a non-starter.So Johnson took a chapter from Hitlers propaganda plans and falsified a sea attack to whip up the public's sense of outrage.For Adolf,the plan was to burn down the German Parliament - AKA The Reichstag. Find some mentally ill patsy who is willing to "confess" - preferably a Jewish immigrant so that the Germans will buy into Hitler's racial hatred and get them ready for war. This formula seems to work well and so other countries have copied it-ie,Gulf of Tonken

Scotty7617 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Not necessarily. Even if Kennedy wasn't going to pull the US out, there's no guarantee he would have escalated it. Kennedy had said he would not let Vietnam become America's war, and that regardless of what support the US provided, in the end it had to be the Vietnamese who did the fighting because it was their war.