2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Is War a Critical Issue with You? [View all]Jarqui
(10,717 posts)When we protested the Vietnam war, a big hunk of the complaint was Johnson & Nixon lying about it. I just grabbed these quick from Google (I do not completely endorse them):
Lying About Vietnam
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/29/opinion/lying-about-vietnam.html
30-year Anniversary: Tonkin Gulf Lie Launched Vietnam War
http://fair.org/media-beat-column/30-year-anniversary-tonkin-gulf-lie-launched-vietnam-war/
Exposing Nixons Vietnam Lies
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/08/10/exposing-nixons-vietnam-lies/
The Lyndon Johnson tapes: Richard Nixon's 'treason'
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-21768668
Nixon Prolonged Vietnam War for Political GainAnd Johnson Knew About It, Newly Unclassified Tapes Suggest
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nixon-prolonged-vietnam-war-for-political-gainand-johnson-knew-about-it-newly-unclassified-tapes-suggest-3595441/#QdD74ZIiSObmXhsV.99
Once in office he escalated the war into Laos and Cambodia, with the loss of an additional 22,000 American lives, before finally settling for a peace agreement in 1973 that was within grasp in 1968, says the BBC.
I do not think I have to provide links for Bush, Cheney and Rice.
Hillary is like Nixon. She's a very secretive, chronic liar and surrounds herself with people "who have little interest in context or the truth and much more interest in dealing with obstacles in an aggressive way" according to Carl Bernstein who wrote a major biography on Hillary.
That's a candidate who is a higher risk for going to war.
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