And Now we can Tie Bush to Vietnam too!

In the post below I linked to a story in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Tonkin Gulf Resolution which led to an escalation of the American presence in Vietnam. The release of documents confirmed what had long been assumed, that we became involved based on a lie.

The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that NSA officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence during the Tonkin Gulf episode that helped precipitate the Vietnam War, according to two people familiar with the historian's work.

...deliberately distorted critical intelligence...

Gee, no similarities to modern times there.

And what is this with the NSA keeping this document secret since 2001, it is almost as if they didn't want this confirmation around, when, say, there was a dispute about intelligence during the build up to another war.

Why would one think that?

You know national media, once again, I'd like to point out I'm just a dope from Iowa; often portrayed as a hick, a hayseed. I'm supposed to be naive and simple; a "bumkin" if you will. I was ed-ju-ma-cated at "State Schools". So how come I can notice stuff like this, yet you cannot be bothered?

Of course, us bumkins have always just fought and died in your wars, we've never been good at starting them -- that's been the job the elites always claim.

UPDATE: Tom Legg had similar thoughts.