Hmmm... familiar.

[Craig3410]

From Wikipedia on J. William Fulbright:

On August 7, 1964, a unanimous House of Representatives and all but two senators passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which led to the further escalation of the Vietnam War. Fulbright, who voted for the resolution, would later write:

Many Senators who accepted the Gulf of Tonkin resolution without question might well not have done so had they foreseen that it would subsequently be interpreted as a sweeping Congressional endorsement for the conduct of a large-scale war in Asia.

Hmmm.. congressmen voting in a time of crisis for something that would eventually lead to a war that we would lose.

Sounds quite familiar.


( I bring this up because I decided to look up Fulbright, seeing as how I'm taking classes in a building named after him. :D)

[DURHAM D]

1. Was Senator Gore (Al's father) one of the no votes ? eom

[Craig3410]

2. No...

only Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against it.

[DURHAM D]

3. Thanks - what was the vote Senator Gore made that was so

damaging to his political career ?

[Craig3410]

5. It looks like the '64 Civil Rights Act.

Gore was one of only three Democratic senators from the eleven former Confederate states who refused to sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto opposing integration, the other two being Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson and Gore's fellow Tennesseean Estes Kefauver. Gore could not, however, be regarded as an out-and-out integrationist, having voted against some major civil rights legislation including the Civil Rights Act of 1964

[Burried News]

4. Why do you hate America. Iraq isn't anythin like veeatnam.

Do you see any jungles in Eyerak? Do you see any asians? Do you see the monsoons? And where's the tunnels and the punji steaks? Nope this war is a hole nuther thang. Completely diffrent - and we gonna win this time - cause George aint gonna turn, no siree he's a boy whut knows how to fight. We are gonna gitRdun this time. We gonna keep on Trukkin.

Same shit - even some of the same assholes.