Originally posted by MrFatBooty
Too busy trying to convince the citizens that war was necessary? What are you talking about? The only conflict where that has any applicability is Vietnam, and the point is that we went in after a supposed attack on American assets already happened.
No, the government was trying to get the country to go to war in WWII. Then Pearl Harbor happened. You didn't know that? The North's initial invasion on the South caused many US casualties. That's what I'm talking about. I wasn't really talking about the Gulf of Tonkin incident, as I believe that we provoked them first. I'm asking you this: why shouldn't we have made an exception in Iraq to your bullshit precedent if we
knew that eventually they would strike us or Israel through terrorism or otherwise?