Sir, IMHO, you can lay the blame directly at the feet of Lyndon Baines Johnson, with many conspirators and accomplices, many of whom wore stars on their shoulders. LBJ is an American disgrace and especially so, him being a Texan.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident / resolution was a bigger lie than ‘weapons of mass destruction’.
Sir, thank you - you and the Lord knows what happened but the vast majority of the “skulls full of mush” will only remember the talking points fed them by a unionized, pre-liberalized core of propagandists. They can’t stand America. We have a huge job ahead of us. THe truth will win, hope I am alive when it does.