[vortigern]

I had top secret clearance. I was flag-staff communications radioman. I served aboard the USS Enterprise, USS Constellation, USS Bon Homme Richard, USS Ranger, USS Hancock, USS Ticonderoga...and others on Yankee Station in the Gulf of Tonkin between 1964 and 1967. For a fact, in the War Room on all these ships there were many targets that our sorties were forbidden to strike. The war was run by civilians in Washington. I personally operated top secret teletype communications circuits directly connected to Washington and I know this for a fact. The professional military commanders on the scene had their hands tied behind their backs in fighting the war. This is the reason we didn't win...and the reason so many of our finest returned home in body bags.

[Parmy]

I have a friend who logged in 8000 combat flying hours in 2.5 tours. He told me of flying over the Ho Chi Minh trail and observing a regiment of NVA heading South. He called it in.

Two days later B-52's laid a strike on the coordinated he gave. The orders came from McNamara, himslef. What a doof.