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To: gamesmistress who wrote (26574)	9/6/2012 12:15:58 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 85487

I'm saying most of us were lied into war. As I famously said at the time, "This is Tonkin Gulf all over again. Don't fall for it." When he read that, Bobby Byrd asked me to write a speech for him. Pressing the White House case for war was Senator John Warner (R- Virginia). On the other side was Sen. Robert Byrd (D- West Virginia) and Ted Kennedy (D- Massachusetts). If America should indeed make its first-ever preemptive attack on another nation, Warner laid out the best case for it. But it was the elderly Byrd, his palsied hands seemingly barely in control, who scored points with a chilling comparison: Let's go back to the war in Vietnam. I was here. I was one of the Senators who voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. Yes, I voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution. I am sorry for that. I am guilty of doing that. I should have been one of the two, or at least I should have made it three, Senators who voted against that Gulf of Tonkin resolution. But I am not wanting to commit that sin twice, and that is exactly what we are doing here. This is another Gulf of Tonkin resolution. monitor.net