The Nature of Lying

If we think that the discredited weapons of mass destruction was a snow job which it was then we have to think of the Gulf of Tonking Resolution as a similiar snow job. President Lyndon B. Johnson lied to get us into Vietnam faking the attack on a US Navy Destroyer the USS Maddox in the Gulf of Tonking. If we decree men like Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz and Douglas Fife as evil. Why do we not hold to accound Johnson? The answer is because he is a democrat. Johnson and McNamara, namely Robert McNamara the former defense secretary were architects of the failed Vietnam policy. It represented a huge dereliction of duty from the President on down. The Vietnam conflict only escalated after President John Kennedey's electoral victory in 1960. The previous President Dwight D. Einsenhower resisted putting combat troops in Vietnam. Vietnam was an eight year long war that lasted from 1964-1972. It killed more than three hundred thousand Vietnamese and Fifty Thousand Americans. The conflict turned millions more into refugees. If we applied Congressman Denis Cousinitch's weak calculus of lying as jailable offense then would have had to arrest Kennedey, Johnson and McNamara. Richard Nixon only inhereted Vietnam and its problems from his predecessor. I was aware of that as well.