This was not "wanting to believe" but seizing on an opportunity and lying about what happened to convince the public to support expanding war.
The American elite still cannot admit this because then they would have to take responsibility for the 50,000 American lives lost, the many more that were wounded and disabled, and the destruction of a country.
Remembering the Gulf of Tonkin, and the Consequences of Wanting to Believe
Janine Jackson
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