[CharlesWayneCT]

Historians and policy experts now know that the official government claims, including those made by U.S. Presidents, that led to the Spanish-American War, World War I, Vietnam War, Gulf War, and other conflicts were deliberate misrepresentations of the facts in order to rally support for wars that the general public would otherwise not support.

What was the "deliberate misrepresentation" that got us into the Gulf war? Did Saddam not really invade Kuwait after all?

And what was the "deliberate misrepresentation" that got us into the Vietnam war?

And what other wars did we get into because of "deliberate misrepresentation"? The War of 1812? The civil war? The revolutionary war? Grenada? Bosnia? Kosovo? (Well, yes, Kosovo -- there was no significant genocide taking place).

[Tublecane]

“And what was the ‘deliberate misrepresentation’ that got us into the Vietnam war?”

Gulf of Tonkin incident.

“What was the ‘deliberate misrepresentation’ that got us into the Gulf war? Did Saddam not really invade Kuwait after all?”

Pretty sure they mean Iraq Part II: The Reckoning. Though technically it was Saddam’s violation of the peace treaty, not the infamous WMDs that justified our invasion. If you care about legalistic official justifications.

“World War I”

We all dreamed that the Lusitania and all those other ships sunk. The wreckage they occassionbally find are all pieces that fell off the Titanic.

“The civil war?”

Unsurprisingly, there are questions concerning what went down at Fort Sumter. Specifically whether Lincoln intentionally provoked Johnny Reb by resupplying it, or something. I forget.

[Peter Horry]

Post 37

Somebody DID spot that elephant.

Gosh, maybe Obama is right after all, without the unbridled aggression and nation building by the U. S. THE WORLD WOULD BE AT PEACE. Click to sing http://www.countrygoldusa.com/teach_world_to_sing.asp