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If you do a search on "oil in the Gulf of Tonkin" or just "Gulf of Tonkin" and you read up on why and what started VietNam's war, you'll find it is not that much different than Iraq. Oil was afactor in both, as were lies about terrorism and shots fired, both started by Texas oilmen, both supported strongly by the military industrial complex, and so on. Interesting stuff there are many more similarities than dissimilarities.
In fact, the in the beginning of VietNam a vast majority were ok with the war. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Act allowing the war to start, 416 - 0 in the House and 88 - 2 in the Senate. I was doing a bit of research and found history repeating itself.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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