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The Gulf of Tonkin: The War Built on Lies
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Some people still defend Lyndon Johnson. They say he was protecting America. That he had no choice. That the Cold War demanded action. They are wrong. August 4th, 1964. Johnson stood before Congress and described a brutal unprovoked attack on American sailors in the Gulf of Tonkin. The room erupted. The vote was nearly unanimous. 416 to 0 in the House. 88 to 2 in the Senate. America was going to war. But here is the controversy nobody wants to touch. Johnson's own Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, admitted decades later that the attack was almost certainly fabricated. He looked
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