File this one under "H", for "Hah-hah!  Isn't it hysterical when presidents joke about how they lied their country into war?":

 

Weather conditions and visibility were poor; the attacks, monitored electronically, may not even have occurred.   Johnson later quipped that "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there."

On the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which Lyndon Johnson used to launch Vietnam, a war costing 58,000 American and two million Vietnamese lives.  From Richard Foster and Robert Edington, Viewing International Relations and World Politics

 

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