Why didn't McNamara tell us the whole truth, even when he admitted Mea Culpa?

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Re: Vietnam

The author of the report "demonstrates that not only is it not true, as (then US) secretary of defense Robert McNamara told Congress, that the evidence of an attack was 'unimpeachable,' but that to the contrary, a review of the classified signals intelligence proves that 'no attack happened that night,'" FAS said in a statement.

"What this study demonstrated is that the available intelligence shows that there was no attack. It's a dramatic reversal of the historical record," Aftergood said.

"There were previous indications of this but this is the first time we have seen the complete study," he said.



http://rawstory.com/news/afp/Report_reveals_Vietnam_War_hoaxes_f_01082008.html

[ingac70]

1. Probably because...

he didn't want to get shot in the head, too.

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3. It's just mind boggling. The patterns are so set in history.

Pearl Harbor, and what it did to the US, seems to be a bit of learned history that too many people/countries have tried to imitate to provoke the same results.

We hear about this thing in Vietnam with North Vietnamese provoking the USA; we hear about the Israelis in another well-known skirmish; and now we suspect the same thing happened with 9/11.

Maybe quick retaliation, as our friend Richard Clarke recommends, is not always the best answer.

[havocmom]

5. Pearl Harbor? Go back further and "Remember the Maine!"

[havocmom]

4. EXACTLY

My guess is they showed anyone who really knew what was going on a film of that day in Dallas, taken from an angle they had never seen before.

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7. Connect the dots, please?

[ingac70]

8. JFK had already ordered some troops to come home...

from Vietnam. LBJ and his ilk nipped that in the bud.

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9. Do we know for a fact that JFK was aware of this info?

[ingac70]

10. That he was going to get shot in the head for the order?

I don't think so. :eyes:

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11. C'mon. You know what I mean.

[ingac70]

12. Have you seen "The Fog of War"?

JFK ordered troops home from Vietnam by the end of '63. There are tape recorded conversations after JFK's death of LBJ telling McNamara he thought removal of troops was a mistake. McNamara gives a very in depth interview in that documentary, an all of the White House phone conversations are right there for you to hear, including LBJ's hard on to make up shit re: the Gulf of Tonkin.

[PsN2Wind]

2. Not to defend McNamara or his "band"

but he did show some earlier remorse, check my sig line. which is just as apropos today as in '68.

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6. I'm aware of that. I'm just wondering why he didn't spill everything when

he showed that remorse. Didn't he write a book?