Deja Vu All Over Again?

Due to the fact that we know the Dubya government lies to us about national security matters, we have to wonder whether they are lying about the alleged incident with Iranian naval forces in which Iranian boats allegedly attacked US Naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. Sure, the Iranians are bad guys, but Dubya and company are confirmed serial liars. Furthermore, our government has done almost the same thing to us before. Recently released National Security Agency documents demonstrate that the Johnson administration fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin incident, used to justify escalation in the Vietnam war. That incident involved a purported attack by Vietnamese boats on American vessls. Could Dubya's regime be lying to us about this? Of course! One of the truly scary things about our country today is what my pal Donald Rumsfeld called the "unknown unknowns," the things we don't know that we don't know. Applied here, that category includes the following: because our government feeds us a stream of lies, we can't know whether to believe our own government or our bitterest enemies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident

http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/01/nsa_releases_history_of_americ.html