[baseball_fan]

"I hope Bill O'Reilly et al apoligize."

Not sure I understand what you mean by why he would need to apologize. According to McNamara the North Vietnamese were forcing our hand one way or the other:

[Robert S. McNamara, who as defense secretary played a central role in the Tonkin Gulf affair, said in an interview last week that he believed the intelligence reports had played a decisive role in the war's expansion.

"I think it's wrong to believe that Johnson wanted war," Mr. McNamara said. "But we thought we had evidence that North Vietnam was escalating."]

[nickcarraway]

Bill O'Reilly and others have a almost patholigal hatred for LBJ, and the focal point seems to be the fact that he engineered the Gulf of Tonkin incident.

[Criminal Number 18F]

"I think it's wrong to believe that Johnson wanted war," Mr. McNamara said.

Signifiant achievements of Robert S. MacNamara. As head of the Ford Motor Division and Ford Motor Corporation:

• The Edsel

• The Ford Falcon

• Cancelling Lee Iacocca's idea, the Mustang (it was reinstated after Mac left).

As Secretary of Defense:

• Vietnam

• The bodycount/attrition "strategy"

• "MacNamara's 100,000" or "Let's let people who are clinically retarded into the Army and Marines and see how they do!"

• The TFX program ("let's use the same plane as a fighter, bomber, have it land on carriers and need 11,000 foot runways, and cancel everything else!").

• Cancelling the Manned Orbiting Laboratory and Dyna-Soar

• ...and more stuff than I could list... the internet will run out of room before any student of national defense could list MacNamara's failures.

As head of the World Bank:

• Wild lending to Third World kleptocratic governments

• The concomitant defaults

• The World Bank bailout that followed from the above like a train on a track.

• Continuing his Vietnam tradition of leading-by-statistic without reference to reality.

In looking at the career of Robert Strange MacNamara, you are hard pressed to find a single worthwhile achievement or success. He might have failed at one thing, but he also failed at all the others. And he sure failed big.

To sum the man up: a total waste of sperm and egg.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F