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Iraq was not the first war to be justified based on lies and deception. Around 50, 000 Americans died in Vietnam after the Tonkin Gulf resolution resulted in an expansion of the Vietnam conflict in 1964.
Washington hid damaging Vietnam finding

The US National Security Agency has kept secret a 2001 finding by its own historian that its officers deliberately distorted critical intelligence during the Tonkin Gulf episode that helped precipitate the Vietnam War.

The historian's conclusion was the first serious accusation that the agency's intercepts were falsified to support the belief North Vietnamese ships attacked US destroyers on August 4, 1964, two days after a previous clash.

Most historians have concluded in recent years there was no second attack, but they have assumed the agency's intercepts were unintentionally misread, not purposely altered. The research by Robert Hanyok, the agency's historian, was detailed four years ago in an in-house article that remains secret, in part because agency officials feared its release might prompt uncomfortable comparisons with the flawed intelligence used to justify the war in Iraq, according to an intelligence official.

So why wouldn't the Bush administration want a report about falsified intelligence made public nearly 40 years after the fact? Was it a fear that their own falsified intelligence might be questioned?

via Majority Report Radio