Believe as you wish, though I don’t believe you were present in any conversation you claim occurred.
Since the justification of out involvement with in Vietnam was later shown to be false, I don’t quibble with anyone who paid a price legally.
“The Gulf of Tonkin Incidents ... a National Security Agency document declassified in 2005 later revealed that the second attack did not actually occur. Conflict or not, the event resulted in U.S. Congress passing the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, which allowed then President Lyndon B. Johnson to intervene in the face of “communist aggression” and escalate U.S. involvement in Vietnam.”
It wasn’t a “conversation.”
It was a “speech” Ali gave surrounded by his black muslim handlers in front of a theater in Elizabeth, New Jersey at a time when he had just lost to Ken Norton.
The little bit he said before he got back on the bus for his next stop was bitter and angry and filled with racial epithets.