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**So prepare, say a prayer **
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**Send the word
Send the word to beware **
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** We'll be over
We're coming over **
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**And we won't come back
till it's over over there ****
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Truman lied from 1950 on...
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on the nature and purposes
of the French involvement,
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the colonial reconquest of Vietnam...
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that we were financing
and encouraging.
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Eisenhower lied
about the reasons for...
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and the nature
of our involvement with Diem,
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and the fact that he was in power,
essentially,
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because of American support,
American money, and for no other reason.
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Kennedy lied about the type
of involvement we were doing there,
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our own combat involvement,
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and about the recommendations that were
made to him for greater involvement.
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President Kennedy lied about...
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the degree of our participation
in the overthrow of Diem.
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The, um,--Johnson, of course,
lied and lied and lied...
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about our provocations
against the North Vietnamese...
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prior to and after
the Tonkin Gulf incidents,
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about the plans
for bombing North Vietnam,
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and the nature of the buildup...
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of American troops in Vietnam.
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Nixon, as we now know,
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misled and lied
to the American public...
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for the first months of his office
in terms of our bombing of Cambodia...
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and of Laos,
ground operations in Laos,
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the reasons for our invasion
of Cambodia and of Laos,
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and the prospects for the mining
at Haiphong that came about in 1972,
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but was envisioned
as early as 1969.
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The American public
was lied to month by month...
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by each of these
five administrations.
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As I say, it's a tribute
to the American public,
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that their leaders perceived
that they had to be lied to.