This is the Tom Hartman program.

Tom Hartman here with you.

A couple of stories I just wanted to touch on.

This I think is one of the most consequential stories that's getting almost no

coverage whatsoever. You'll recall in Vietnam a little over 2.5 million

Vietnamese died at best estimates and over 50,000 American soldiers and we were lied into that war.

The Gulf of Tonkin, that attack on the American, I believe it was a destroyer, whatever the ship

was, never happened.

It was just made up.

It was a pretext for war to expand the war.

The Linen Johnson did.

I mean, you know, it was a lie.

Similarly, with Iraq, there were no weapons of mass destruction, we knew there were no weapons of

mass destruction, we were the ones who had sold Saddam those weapons of mass destruction in the

first place.

That was the Iraq gate scandal.

This was 1990-91 that Bill Barr as Attorney General buried.

This is what made William Safire so nuts,

the famous New York Times columnist who used to do this column called

on language and the one thing he was crazed about was Bill Barr he was the

attorney general and he covered up the sale the illegal sale of weapons of

mass destruction by the Bush administration and the Reagan

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